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Cognition

The cognition subject groups resources that address the process of cognition as per the definition this site carries: cognition is the process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through experience. Everything that falls within that scope and is actively considered by this site belongs here — across disciplines and sources. It is a bundle that will grow over time as more facets are taken up.

Biology

• Basal cognition — the research field studying cognition below the nervous system; what it brings to cognition is the spread of cases — acquisition through experience readable at every scale of life, from bacterium to cell collective, with no complexity threshold.

Neuroscience

• Process models of the brain — what it brings to cognition is insight per aspect: three models, each a different kind of thing — structure built over time, activation in the moment, a world model corrected against arrival.

Philosophy

• Cognition in core philosophy — what it brings to cognition is convergence: independent traditions, Western and Eastern, arriving at the same refusal — no experiencing first and cognising after.
• Cognition as a property of life — what it brings to cognition is reach: the philosophical case that the process extends as far as life itself, stated long before the empirical field existed.