PART 2

Modeling Cognition

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy”

William SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, I, 5.

“In the nature of the one, which is like space, are manifested the many philosophical systems of the discriminating intellect. All are reunified in the spirit of awakening of the great perfection. Like the sky, it embraces everything, and it opens up to become the vast place of origin of all phenomena.”

LONGCHENPA, The Natural Freedom of the Nature of Mind¹

“A harmonized collectivity of consciousnesses, equivalent to a kind of superconsciousness. With the Earth not only covered by myriads of grains of thought, but wrapped in a single thinking envelope until it functionally forms but a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale. The plurality of individual reflections being grouped and reinforced in a single unanimous act of reflection.”

Pierre TEILHARD DE CHARDIN, The Human Phenomenon

1 Tibet, 14th Century.