cognitive · mental
Ask Prometheusthe ability to form knowledge by thinking about things
Cognitive (adjective) means: the ability to form knowledge by thinking about things. It emerges from knowledge, think, ability, form: thinking interacts with things through the capacity to form new knowledge structures. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 20, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- In 2012, IBM's Watson processed natural language clues to win at Jeopardy! against human champions. computing
- A honeybee navigates using remembered landmarks and the sun's position to return to its hive. biology
- The Library of Alexandria collected and preserved scrolls to form a centralized repository of known texts. institutions
Emergence
through: thinking interacts with things through the capacity to form new knowledge structures
- mental representation
- cognitive structure
- emergent understanding
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (380 steps)
- cognitiveL20
- knowledgeL7
- thinkL8
- abilityL19
- energyL0
- regularL1
- processL4
- capacityL11
- enoughL8
- patternL0
- potentialL18
- openL17
- unoccupiedL9
- windowL7
- resultsL11
- changeL1
- differenceL1
- formL9
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
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Relations
| is-a | knowledge.cognitive | is-a |
| enables | learn.cognitive | enables |