The term cognition (Latin: cognoscere, "to know") is used in several loosely-related ways to refer to a facility for the human like processing of information, applying knowledge and changing preferences ( see, for ex. IPK cognitive architecture). Cognition/(cognitive processes) can be natural and artificial, conscious and not conscious, therefore they are analyzed from different perspectives and in different contexts, in neurology, psychology, philosophy, systemics and computer science. The concept cognition is closely related to such abstract concepts as, mind, reasoning, perception, intelligence, learning, and many others which describe numerous capabilities of human mind and expected properties of artificial or synthetic intelligence. Cognition is an abstract property of advanced living organisms, therefore it is studied as a direct property of a brain or of an abstract mind on subsymbolic and symbolic levels.

In psychology and in artificial intelligence it is used to refer to the mental functions, mental processes and states of intelligent entities (humans, human organizations, highly autonomous robots), with a particular focus toward the study of such mental processes as, comprehension, inferencing, decision-making, planning and learning (see also cognitive science and cognitivism). Recently, advanced cognitive researchers are especially focused on the capacities of abstraction, generalization, concretization/specialization and meta-reasoning which descriptions involve such concepts as, beliefs, knowledge, desires, preferences and intentions of intelligent individuals/objects/agents/systems.

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RT @NeilMcD: How people can eat veggie burgers I don't know. I'm cooking some now and the cognitive dissonance is making my stomach gurgle.
eeekster (Rick ) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:20:26 -0000
RT @NeilMcD: How people can eat veggie burgers I don't know. I'm cooking some now and the cognitive dissonance is making my stomach gurgle.
RT @explicitmemory: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in your iPhone http://st.bit.ly/55BELJ #digg
pingpants (pingpants) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:13:36 -0000
RT @explicitmemory: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in your iPhone http://st.bit.ly/55BELJ #digg
RT @NeilMcD: How people can eat veggie burgers I don't know. I'm cooking some now and the cognitive dissonance is making my stomach gurgle.
CalFireNews (Cal Fire News ) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:13:19 -0000
RT @NeilMcD: How people can eat veggie burgers I don't know. I'm cooking some now and the cognitive dissonance is making my stomach gurgle.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in your iPhone http://st.bit.ly/55BELJ #digg
explicitmemory (Conrad Salvador) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:13:07 -0000
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in your iPhone http://st.bit.ly/55BELJ #digg
Participatory sense-making, view the network as a cognitive agent - our intelligence distributed across network devices #CEIT_gsiemens
RadHertz (Phillip D. Long) Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:50:19 -0000
Participatory sense-making, view the network as a cognitive agent - our intelligence distributed across network devices #CEIT_gsiemens
Am reading critiques of Social Cognitive Theory. Woo hoo!
JaneBozarth (Jane Bozarth) Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:44:57 -0000
Am reading critiques of Social Cognitive Theory. Woo hoo!

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