Monty Harper

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If it snowed on the fourth of July
You’d be surprised and you’d have to ask why?
If you saw pigs that grew feathers and flew
You’d want to know how it came to be true.
Humans look for answers every day
And someone's trying to answer why we think that way

She’s training her brain upon the brain
She’s trying to explain why we explain
She’s mining the mind for ways to show
That we can know how we know when we know what we know
She seeks more
certainty on how certainty exists
She is a cognitive psychologist

Maybe you feel that her quest is unsound
Some kinds of answers can never be found
Well, whether your faith is in science or not
She’d be delighted to study that thought
She’ll show you some explanatory schemes
And have you rate each one on how correct it seems

She’s training her brain upon the brain
She’s trying to explain why we explain
She’s mining the mind for ways to show
That we can know how we know when we know what we know
She seeks more
certainty on how certainty exists
She is a cognitive psychologist

Can it be? Can we see
With cognitive psychology
How we know what we believe
It’s folk epistemology
Study by study, bit by bit
Eliminating guesses that do not fit
She’ll meld together theories pulled from fields of different kinds
To reveal the inner workings of our minds

She’s training her brain upon the brain
She’s trying to explain why we explain
She’s mining the mind for ways to show
That we can know how we know when we know what we know
She seeks more
certainty on how certainty exists
She is a cognitive psychologist