Defining Cognition Matters for Understanding Consciousness
Briefly

Cognition encompasses mental functioning and is applicable to humans and animals, with ongoing debates surrounding artificial intelligence's classification as a cognitive entity. Cognitive deficits significantly impact various conditions and mental states in humans. These deficits can be permanent or transient, stemming from factors such as fatigue, intoxication, or major mental illnesses. Influential experts suggest that many neuropsychiatric disorders are fundamentally cognitive. Evaluation of cognition commonly involves simple clinician questions designed to assess cognitive capability.
Cognition is not exclusive to humans; it also occurs in many animals, and there is debate about whether or to what degree artificial intelligence qualifies as a cognitive system.
In humans, cognitive deficits-major or subtle, permanent or transient-are crucial to a great many conditions and mental states, including...simple fatigue or drowsiness, intoxication, medication side effects, and major mental illnesses.
Cognitive deficits are crucial to a great many conditions...most, if not all, of the major neuropsychiatric disorders...are cognitive in nature.
Cognition is routinely evaluated by clinicians using simple questions that assess.
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