cognition

notes: on cognition and computation; conceptual accessibility; and a formal approach to metaphorical analysis 1 metaphor too much time and effort is spent arguing the merits and pitfalls of individual metaphors, when the root cause – a failure to adequately define and formalise ‘metaphorical-analysis’ – remains unaddressed Undoubtedly, metaphor is innate to human experience, and cognition. ‘There is something that it is’ to intuitively perceive and consider universal phenomena by metaphor – to consider one kind of universal phenomenon in terms of the characteristics of another almost-entirely different kind of phenomenon 2....

what are we studying when we are doing mathematics? map and territory Consider map and territory 1 2: Science interprets territory, formally, to compose representational maps Engineering composes (or shapes) territory, by applying map to circumstances, through action Mathematics, central to science and engineering, formalises cartography and navigation of map and territory, and more: mathematics charts the form and characteristics 3 of the nexus 4 between map and territory – fundamentals of constraint, structure and behaviour 5, of interpretation, representation, and cognition 6 alignment Consider that:...

Cognition is a nexus phenomena, which results from the operational (mechanistic) alignment of plural biological phenomenal-scopes (levels) #tbc