The second mode, which utilize information from the first mode’s experiments, involves employing electronic computers to simulate human mental operations. Theorists working in this rapidly growing field of artificial intelligence propose that if that if they can program a computer to produce the same sorts of solutions to problems that a human would produce, they will have taken a significant step toward understanding human thought processes. In making such a proposal, they are assuming that if a computer program is given the same problem-solving input as human and the computer produces the same output as the human, then the program may well contain the same sorts of components and processing steps as those operating in the human nervous system.