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Cognition
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. ...more
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. ...more
“
I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.
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― Killosophy
― Killosophy
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Nothing is wrong with you. Your environment has quietly changed.
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― The Age of Drift: Why Modern Life Feels Fake – and What Reality Drift Reveals About the Modern Mind
― The Age of Drift: Why Modern Life Feels Fake – and What Reality Drift Reveals About the Modern Mind
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