This submission belongs to the session fis. FIS 2010 of the event The 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science
Published date
30 Jul, 2010
Citation
Mario Pérez-Montoro Gutiérrez, José María Díaz Nafría, Is information a sufficient basis for cognition? (Part 2), in Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science, Beijing, 21 August–24 August 2010, MDPI: Basel, Switzerland, doi: 10.3390/fis2010-00364
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Is information a sufficient basis for cognition? (Part 2)
Mario Pérez-Montoro Gutiérrez 1
José María Díaz Nafría 2,3
1. Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
2. Universidad de León, Spain
3. Science of Information Institute, USA
Abstract
In this second part of our inquiry into the relation between information and cognition, we delve into the physical limits of the manifestation of an arbitrary object first with independence of any observer, then considering the nature of perception. The analysis of the manifestations of an object in a homogeneous environment by means of wave phenomena shows that the information carried by such manifestations offers a constitutive fuzziness and ambiguity of the observed object. On the one hand, the details that can be specified concerning the object are strictly limited by the wave length; on the other hand, the volumetric details of the object (i.e. its bowls) are outlawed to the observer, not in virtue of the object opacity, but to the very dimension or complexity of the wave phenomenon in the space surrounding the object. The analysis of perception, considering this physical boundary and the specificity of the animal sensitivity, shows the combined role of other concurrent or previous percept and some a priori knowledge in the perception and awareness of reality.
Keywords
Physics of observation
Waves
Inverse problem
Theory of perception
Biophysics
Epistemology
Cognition
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