Quotation:
”At one extreme the
’cognitive’ in cognitive neuroscience has replaced
the older term information processing.
At the other extreme the term ’cognition’ refers
to those higher level processes fundamental to the for-
mation of conscious experience.
In common parlance the term ’cognition’ means
thinking and reasoning.” [41]
When we must use those words, we use it exclusively in the
first meaning: the collective activity of neurons for processing information at the ’technically’ lowest level.
Although it is challenging both to list the crucial differences between technological components attempting to mimic a biological component and to separate the hardware (HW) and software (SW) issues, some of the most important ones are mentioned below.
The confusion starts at a much lower level. ”At one extreme the ’cognitive’ in cognitive neuroscience has replaced the older term ’information processing’. At the other extreme the term ’cognition’ refers to those higher level processes fundamental to the formation of conscious experience. In common parlance the term ’cognition’ means thinking and reasoning.” [41]. At the lowest level, both implementations do information processing. However, even at their lowest level, they process differently interpreted information on different structures using different methods. The notion of ’cognition’ (similarly to ’conscience’, and other notions) are not transferable between those implementations.
Fundamentally, we are in line with the standpoint of E. Schrödinger [12] (The physical basis of conscieousness): ”What kind of material process is directly associated with consciousness? …consciousness is linked up with certain kinds of events in organized, living matter, namely, with certain nervous functions …It is still more gratuitous to indulge in thoughts about whether perhaps other events as well, events in inorganic matter, let alone all material events, are in some way or other associated with consciousness.”