The cognitive agent: Overcoming informational limits

Within a biological organism it is possible to identify a number of general functions facilitated by internal mutually connected mechanisms. The organization responsible for material and energy exchange with the environment and the integration of those into the operation of the organism is broadly classi ed as the metabolic system. The organization responsible for identi cation of external invaders and the intervention and elimination of the invaders is classi ed as the immune system. The organization responsible for generating of a copy or a closely resembling organism is the reproductive system. The organization responsible for controlling the interactions of the organism with the environment, usually to facilitate other functions, is classi ed broadly as the cognitive system. Other such general functions In philosophical discussions the term cognition is commonly used to refer to the high level capacity or activity of thought, and it is contrasted with perception, a ection, instinct, and other lower capacities.