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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
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Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings.
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― Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
― Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
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Textbooks are like visible light, they only reveal a tiny, microscopic, biased sliver of reality, while 99.9965% of the electromagnetic spectrum remain nonexistent to the mighty brains of apekind. Real education happens outside the textbook.
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― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
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