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. 2018 Apr:68:20-30.
doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2017.11.007. Epub 2017 Nov 29.

Cognition wars

Fred Adams  1
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Cognition wars

Fred Adams. Stud Hist Philos Sci. 2018 Apr.

Abstract

In what kinds of physical systems can cognition be realized? There are currently competing answers among scientists and theorists of cognition. There are many plant scientists who maintain that cognition can be realized in plants. There are biological scientists who maintain that cognition is materially realized in bacteria. In this paper, I will present the basis for such claims and evaluate them and discuss the future for theories of the metaphysical basis of cognition in the cognitive sciences.

Keywords: Anthropogenic; Ben-Jacob; Biogenic; Chemotaxis; Cognition; Embodied; Garzon; Information; Intentionality; Keijer; Lyon.

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