Talk:Cognition

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thread_title:  Links to other articles 

message: are choices (specifically those manifesting into an action) fall into the realm of cognition or "cognitive processes"? BriEnBest (talk) 12:09, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Not to be too trite about this, but the simple yes, we can is a choice. When one has decided 'no, I can't understand something', one has already forfeited one's role in a thought process; that one has automatically lost ones way in the labyrinth,in the race for an achievement. Thus motivation and attention are basic to this thought process. A simple guess is better than a despairing I give up.  Why is this? -- it is because one can then think of some simple actions based on that guess, and get on with life. --Ancheta Wis (talk) 17:09, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  choices 

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Other concepts which seem to have arisen only recently (in the last century) include increased expectations for human rights. In this case, an example of an 'emergent behavior' might perhaps be the use of the mass media to publicize inequities in the human condition, perhaps using highly portable cameras and telephones.
Sorry but I do not understand how portable cameras and telephones would be used.Mikeo1938 (talk) 18:14, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Suppose you have the opportunity to record the beating of someone weaker by someone stronger, and that you have a camera and phone. You could turn on the recorder, point it at the beating, and transmit that record to a news agency. --Ancheta Wis (talk) 17:12, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portable cameras and telephones 

message: I have deleted the following two subtopics from the end of the article because they are so remote from the topic of this article as to be irrelevant.
=== In a cultural context ===
One famous image, Earthrise, taken during Apollo 8, the first Apollo mission to the Moon, shows planet Earth in a single photograph. Earthrise is now the icon for Earth Day, which did not arise until after the image became widespread.  At this level, an example of an 'emergent behavior' might be concern for Spaceship Earth, as encouraged by the development of orbiting space observatories etc. 
Other concepts which seem to have arisen only recently (in the last century) include increased expectations for human rights. In this case, an example of an 'emergent behavior' might perhaps be the use of the mass media to publicize inequities in the human condition, perhaps using highly portable cameras and telephones.
--AlotToLearn (talk) 00:11, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought there would be failure modes, but I wasn't surprised that communities found ways around them. I thought it was important that when the organization proved to be wrong, people could reorganize on their own, that organization could emerge.
In other words, when the organization adapted, the concept adapted and survived the incipient failure mode.
--AlotToLearn (talk) 00:16, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of subtopics that are too remote from topic 

message: One famous image, Earthrise, taken during Apollo 8, the first Apollo mission to the Moon, shows planet Earth in a single photograph. Earthrise is now the icon for Earth Day, which did not arise until after the image became widespread.  At this level, an example of an 'emergent behavior' might be concern for Spaceship Earth, as encouraged by the development of orbiting space observatories etc. 
Other concepts which seem to have arisen only recently (in the last century) include increased expectations for human rights. In this case, an example of an 'emergent behavior' might perhaps be the use of the mass media to publicize inequities in the human condition, perhaps using highly portable cameras and telephones.
--AlotToLearn (talk) 00:11, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  In a cultural context 

message: It is possible to find other examples of critical mass necessary to develop a concept. For example, a nascent coalition of individuals might fail in the implementation of some agreement among them; but in the words of Ward Cunningham, the inventor of the Wiki-wiki Web:
:I thought there would be failure modes, but I wasn't surprised that communities found ways around them. I thought it was important that when the organization proved to be wrong, people could reorganize on their own, that organization could emerge.
In other words, when the organization adapted, the concept adapted and survived the incipient failure mode.
--AlotToLearn (talk) 00:16, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example of emergent organization 

message: Is anyone else bothered by the "cognition" template? It seems like original research to me. Are there are any sources that claim that the essential topics associated with cognition are "Sentience", "Consciousness", "Sapience", "Self-awareness", "Concept" and "Cognitive linguistics". Please discuss on the talk page of the template. I think it should be removed. ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 05:20, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you, and I've boldly removed the template.  Not sure when it was added, or by who. Looie496 (talk) 00:43, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like it was added in November 2008 by User:Zahd, who had a not-so-shiny edit history. I don't know enough to judge whether this is a helpful template, but if it's not worth having on this article, it should probably be removed from other articles too. Dreamyshade (talk) 01:35, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Since a few of us seem to agree that this template fails to list the central articles about "cognition", I have removed it and will move forward with a request for deletion. Please discuss at Template Talk:Cognition ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 02:27, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In addition, this article is a little hard to understand because it is written so academically. I believe it could be revised to read a little simpler so more people would be able to understand the topic better. 
17Awesome17 (talk) 23:48, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cognition template 

message: The article has very few citations, I have placed tags on the article to make readers/writers aware. --Gnepets (talk) 04:15, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Is this still the case?  Seventeen doesn't seem so shabby.  If not, should the article level tag now be removed? It seems to me that the article does need additional (specific) citations (I've just added a request for one myself!) but is the article now so poorly cited that it still deserves the flag? LookingGlass (talk) 09:34, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

text: Fair enough, but then imo these instances should be highlighted more clearly in the text.  Where are these central ideas that are not supported?  What references are poorly chosen?  Please provide some more in-line tags so that the issues can be more easily addressed.  LookingGlass (talk) 12:27, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

message: I have removed that section.  It was unsourced and tagged as needing sources for months, and also doesn't have anything to do with cognition as I have learned about it.  This section should not go back without having proper sources provided (I actually don't think it should go back at all). Looie496 (talk) 19:56, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Ontology" section 

message: From a reader's POV, I want to ask question: Section: Cognition#Piaget.27s_theory_of_cognitive_development. He believed that humans are unique in comparison to animals because we have the ability to do "abstract symbolic reasoning.". - what is "abstract symbolic reasoning"? Can you add a short description in the article? You can add a  in my talk page! --Tito Dutta Message 04:54, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abstract symbolic reasoning!  

message: Latin and Greek, as closely related Indo-European languages, share a common PIE vocabulary. There is no evidence that 'nosco' was 'borrowed' from the Greek, any more that the Gothic 'kunnan' was 'borrowed or that the Greek was 'borrowed' from the Sanskrit or the Persian. (Pamour (talk) 20:31, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  (cog)nosco 

message: Within the article, it should be clearly distinguished between cognition and the study of cognition (e.g., origins of cognition ≠ origins of the study of cognition).
Would it be a good idea to combine the new sections with the subsection "Psychology" and make clear that they are about the latter?
㓟 (talk) 12:03, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  New sections on origins and experiments 

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replies: text: Interesting.  Can you help with the above request? LookingGlass (talk) 19:54, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'll see what I can find out about Aquinas's view. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 21:24, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intelligence citations bibliography for updating this and other articles 

message: I think this page misses a section on embodiment in cognition, i.e. how biological factors affect cognition, both in animals and humans. Otherwise it seems that only social factors play the role.Verib (talk) 08:30, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: A section on embodiment in cognition is needed

message: Specifically, that of Hermann Ebbinghaus.  His en.Wikipedia article spells his name with the terminal double "n", which is standard German spelling.  The wikiarticle History of Psychology agrees.  Anglo/American authors have a way of dropping "extra" letters.  I believe this man always spelled his name in the German manner, so I intend to correct it.  Rags (talk) 08:30, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
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The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. Curugh.Firetone (talk) 16:35, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
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