PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Complex Network, Empirical Evidence, Psy
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Why people behave in certain ways, how they think, remember and make decisions. To understand yourself and your mind better. To help people that may require a more scientific understanding of how they function. The understand the altered states of consciousness. How people"s minds function and / or malfunction. Unifying theme: the design stance a machine that does what your brain would do to solve key problems. Way too much information, can"t pay attention and examine them. People overreact and overestimate the probability when it"s operating with risks. Information is often partial and uncertain, and is partial relative to your goals. Brain is constantly acting to get from the current state to the goal state. What you think in the world vs. actually projected onto the world. The world doesn"t contain obviousness, importance, relevance, problems. Science tries to get behind and explain the projection. Explain the familiar in terms of the unfamiliar.
