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| | Seminar: Cognition |
 | | Indefiniteness of Content: The contents of our memories, beliefs, desires, values, emotions, and attitudes are often indefinite, protean, and partially constructed in a given context in ways that depend heavily on that context (e.g., current expectations, priming, framing effects, emotional state, mood). |
 | | There is growing evidence that memories, beliefs, desires and other cognitive states are often "constructed" on the spot and that the forms these constructions take depend on features of the contexts in which they occur. |
 | | But the drive for explanation and understanding is so strong that it can lead us to see patterns and reasons even where they don't exist and to construct explanations even when we don't have enough evidence or computational resources to warrant it. |
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