cognizers

I read the abstract and haven't spent the time to grok it all, but I like the weird ring of the word "cognizers" to describe a kind of person.

Boing Boing 2008

Language itself is a form of cognitive technology that allows cognizers to offload some of their cognitive functions onto the brains of other cognizers.

Boing Boing 2008

And now the web, with its network of cognizers, digital databases and software agents, all accessible anytime, anywhere, has become our 'Cognitive Commons,' in which distributed cognizers and cognitive technology can interoperate globally with a speed, scope and degree of interactivity inconceivable through local individual cognition alone.

Boing Boing 2008

Language also extends cognizers 'individual and joint performance powers, distributing the load through interactive and collaborative cognition.

Boing Boing 2008

Reading, writing, print, telecommunications and computing further extend cognizers 'capacities.

Boing Boing 2008

Systems without mental states, such as cognitive technology, can sometimes contribute to human cognition, but that does not make them cognizers.

Boing Boing 2008

The research on “heuristics and biases” described in section two is an excellent example of this, and subsequent research by Gigerenzer and associates (1999, 2000) has shown that the manifestation of heuristics like framing effects may vary quite strikingly according to minor variations in the problems cognizers face.

Hanging 2009

Like the unconditional moral ought, as expressed by the Categorical Imperative, the logical ought, as expressed by, e.g., the Law of Non-Contradiction, is rarely correctly obeyed in the real world by finite flawed cognizers like us, who commit logical fallacies and moral sins with comparable frequency: sadly, ought does not entail is.

Kant's Theory of Judgment Hanna, Robert 2009

However, right now we have to wonder whether it is ethically appropriate for the theory of decisional capacity to treat health care subjects as if they were only cognizers, when in fact they are also emoters.

Decision-Making Capacity Charland, Louis 2008

In particular, there's much scholastic debate over the precise nature of and relationships between forms, objects, acts of cognition, and the cognizers themselves.

Descartes' Theory of Ideas Pessin, Andrew 2007