From cognition to consciousness: a discussion about learning, reality representation, and decision making

Title: From cognition to consciousness: a discussion about learning, reality representation, and decision making
Creator: Guez, David
Relation: Biological Theory: Integrating Development, Evolution & Cognition Vol. 5, Issue 2, p. 136-141
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/BIOT_a_00028
Publisher: MIT Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2010
Description: The scientific understanding of cognition and consciousness is currently hampered by the lack of rigorous and universally accepted definitions that permit comparative studies. This article proposes new functional and unambiguous definitions for cognition and consciousness in order to provide clearly defined boundaries within which general theories of cognition and consciousness may be developed. The proposed definitions are built upon the construction and manipulation of reality representation, decision making, and learning and are scoped in terms of an underlying logical structure. It is argued that the presentation of reality also necessitates the concept of absence and the capacity to perform transitive inference. Explicit predictions relating to these new definitions, along with possible ways to test them, are also described and discussed.
Subject: learning; cognition; consciousness; decision making
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/920771
Identifier: uon:9208
Identifier: ISSN:1555-5542
Language: eng
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