cognition me? try as i might, i couldn't understand what they were trying to tell me. my mind works like a finely tuned sieve, only the choicest pieces of debris remain after sifting. 991121 ... amy oh, sure we can get it, we can understand, but does this or that glorious idea get us anywhere we want to be? i am quick to forget that which doesn't make a resonating sense. 000130 ... How can * Manjusri's_Gatha_Teaching * Since thinking from externals cannot stray, it serve to achieve perfection? 050419 ... zeke cognition is a gathering force. it binds unrelated things. it directs the order of things. it constructs. it sorts. it plays in the endless cascade of happenstance. cognition creates futures. 051116 ... () () 060702 ... .. (:-) 060802 ... 9 nice hat.. where dyou get it? 060802 ... Ptolemy DCLVIII Engagement in a mental process? 061115 ... () (?) 061115 ... Ptolemy DCLVIII Cognition is not limited to lofty excellencies. It does not inherently entail emotion or logic. Cognition is the engine engaged by clutch and placed in a gear; it is not the idle mind. Cognition is usually the mind's action and seldom the mind's passivity. Mentally challenged individuals perhaps do not abound in intelligence nor wisdom, but they are often highly cognizant of the world around them, processing with unrelenting fervor. To say that someone is highly cognitive/-izant is to say that they process stuff, regardless of the result. It does not, left unto itself, connote intellect nor depth of probity. 061116 ... Pto Basically () I agree with everything you said above, as well. 061116 ... Pto In fact, I seem to agree with what (you) wrote more than what I wrote. 061116 ... Pto Drats! And, congrats. 061116 ... somebody cognition also scatters, muddles, and blurs. sometimes in conceals. it deconstructs. 061116 what's it to you? who go blather from