CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Distributed Cognition, Distributed Computing, Sensory Memory
26 May 2015
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A cognitive system is the system in which an agent perceives the outside world around that agent. In the perception phase, it turns things from the environment into meaningful internal representations. In the action phase, it turns theses perceptions into a physical changes on the environment. The human mind works by perceiving the outside environment by using their sensory organs that include their eyes, ears, nose, and senses on their skin. Once processed, these perceptions are turned into actions using our bodies - these actions are meaningful physical changes on the world. A disembodied system functions much differently than the other cognitive system as it requires a user input in order to work rather than seeking out information within the outside world. When a disembodied system is perceiving information it updates its database. From here rather than performing an action it takes the information from the updated database and returns a display back to the user.
