Sunday, January 14, 2007

The/A central question this essay asks/explores is the character of the boundaries between cognitive agents,cognitive objects and cognitive instruments. We examine cognitive processes that problematise this relationship,transposing the character of cognitive agent from the purely human or even animal realm to that of the non-human or even that of the non-biological. This essay explores questions about the validity of such transpositions and whether or not these questions can be taken beyond the paradoxes that emerge in the relationships between people and landscape into broader areas /fields of cognition.

In what sense do the questions we explore relate to issues of the nature of being,to ontology. The are ontological because we explore questions that deal with then distinctive qualities of phenomena,including human beings,nature and the creations of the human mind,that enable particular phenomena to behave in particular ways,or to be capable of responses or to afford the possibilities for particular modes of repose to it by other phenomena,afford the possibility;/enable the possibility of of particular modes of interaction with it and with other phenomena that emerges in the cognitive process.

Theses questions relate to issues of modes of knowing and of the significance of knowledge,of questions about the character of knowledge,of how knowledge can be arrived at,and of questions of the character of phenomena that makes then accessible to being known in particular ways. In focusing on questions of cognitive process and the significance of knowledge,our questions relate to epistemology and the literature and questions that constitute it and the literature through which these questions are explored. In examining questions about the character of phenomena as this questions of constitution,on ontological identity,of ontological formation enable these phenomena to be knowable in particular ways or enable the privileging of particular forms of knowing,we explore ontological questions and their relationship with the epistemological.

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