- Tytuł:
- Cognition as Orientation in the Environment (translated by Magdalena Kopczyńska)
- Autorzy:
- Lewicki (1960), Andrzej
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/632575.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2016
- Wydawca:
- Projekt Avant
- Tematy:
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cognition
indication of value
indication pointing to action
Lewicki Andrzej
Pavlov Ivan
orientation in the environment
tendency - Opis:
- 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. [...]
- Źródło:
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Avant; 2016, 7, 3
2082-6710 - Pojawia się w:
- Avant
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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