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What is cognition?
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- The process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought experience and the senses.
- The way we make meaning from the world. - The processes and mechanisms of the mind (ie. learning and memory) that allow us to acquire knowledge and think, experience and understand it. |
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What is mental representation?
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- Mental representations are data structures of the mind that encode information gained from our senses.
- The format in which information is encoded, stored and reconstructed/re-presented. - Many levels of it (sensory-perceptual, symbolic ie. language etc). |
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Why is mental representation important?
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It is mental representation, or the ability to attend to our own mental representations (think about our thoughts) which represents higher level cognitive function and allows us to undertake complex though processes like planning for the future and hypothetical thought. It also allows us to create a conception of the “self” (fragile though it may be).
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What is phenomenology/phenomenological experience?
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Our personal experiences of sensations, images, feelings thoughts etc.
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What is epistemology?
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- What is the nature of knowledge?
- What can be known? - Can we ever know how mind and brain interact? |
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What is ontology?
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- What kind of things exist in the universe?
- Are the mind and brain different “stuffs,” or kinds of substances? |
