- published: 19 May 2014
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Cognition is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses." It encompasses processes such as knowledge, attention, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and "computation", problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language, etc. Human cognition is conscious and unconscious, concrete or abstract, as well as intuitive (like knowledge of a language) and conceptual (like a model of a language). Cognitive processes use existing knowledge and generate new knowledge.
The processes are analyzed from different perspectives within different contexts, notably in the fields of linguistics, anesthesia, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, education, philosophy, anthropology, biology, systemics, logic, and computer science. These and other different approaches to the analysis of cognition are synthesised in the developing field of cognitive science, a progressively autonomous academic discipline. Within psychology and philosophy, the concept of cognition is closely related to abstract concepts such as mind and intelligence. It encompasses the mental functions, mental processes (thoughts), and states of intelligent entities (humans, collaborative groups, human organizations, highly autonomous machines, and artificial intelligences).
Barefooted you are facing the Infinity
Gazing into its unexplored depths
Thoughts and feelings melt in eternal dark
You bring back all the Earth gifted you with
Just to know the secret of the sky
Searching neither for words nor for passion
Sacrificing your quietness instead
With eternal hope you are looking
And waiting for answer from the Silence
Centuries pass by before your eyes
Faces are flickering… machines are roaring
Buildings had being erected and destroyed
But you stand still in patience
Moment in infinity of the wheel of time
And secret reveals for you
You can see veracity…
And only whispering from core of your heart
“Nor Aught nor Nought existed; yon bright sky
Was not, nor heaven’s broad roof outstretched above.
What covered all? What sheltered? what concealed?
Was it the water’s fathomless abyss?
There was not death—yet there was nought immortal,
There was no confine betwixt day and night;
The only One breathed breathless by itself,
Other than It there nothing since has been.
Darkness there was, and all at first was veiled
In gloom profound—an ocean without light
Tired wanderer of eternity
Your path leads to infinity
To walk and to stay
Action in the slackness