Cognitivity from Within the brain

Speaker of the seminar Konstantin V. Anokhin, Academician of the Russian Academy of Science & Director of the Institute for Advanced Brain Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

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The properties and characteristics of cognitive systems are traditionally determined through their manifestations in external behavior. The data accumulating in recent years show that the cognitivity of the system can be deduced from the activity of its nervous elements. These facts give us a new look at the very nature of the phenomenon of cognition.