Cognition as Orientation in the Environment (translated by Magdalena Kopczyńska)

• Authors: Andrzej Lewicki (1960)
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

There is one major reason that the conception of nervous reflection cannot be directly associated with “cognition” even though it undoubtedly should be a vi- tal component of the definition of this term. Namely, reflection, understood as the creation of equivalents of external stimuli, is a process that happens not only in the brains of living creatures, but also in inanimate matter. A thermometer “reflects” changes in temperature, but we would not say that it “knows” them- it is the man who knows the temperature when using a thermometer. Reflection means cognition only when it determines offensive or defensive reactions of an organism: when it constitutes an element of the mechanism of adaptation to the environment, it enables the individual to be guided by the reflected external phenomena. [...]

Keywords

EN

cognition; indication of value; indication pointing to action; Lewicki Andrzej; Pavlov Ivan; orientation in the environment; tendency

• Publisher: Ośrodek Badań Filozoficznych - Centre for Philosophical Research
• Journal: Avant
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 3

Dates

published

2016

online

2018-10-20

Contributors

author

Andrzej Lewicki (1960)