John Vervaeke: A Cognitive Analysis

Cognitive science is the more than an interdisciplinary domain. It is a tool to create a connection between lovers of discourse. Humans study minds by studying the behavior of others, in this way we solve difficult problems. Insightful wisdom and higher cognition are correlated and their basis lies not just in psychology or neuroscience, but philosophy as well, which serves as a source of information about the integration of minds, important concepts, theoretical material, conceptual reasoning and insightful integration. John Vervaeke has described cognitive science to be fundamental to explaining the phenomenon of ‘wisdom’. Vervaeke’s major development, Relevance Realization, assesses that insightful wisdom helps to avoid foolishness, or more

Between the initial and the goal state, a continuous stream of information, composed of rich and detailed experiences, are generally assumed to occur in parallel form to a conscious person. A person passes from a series of transformations, to actually solve problems. The two states, the initial state and the goal state; one state from where the problem starts (initial) and the other state from where the problem is solved (goal). In between the two states, there are an infinite number of pathways, that lead from one point to another. The pathway may be, a simple one or a difficult one. Vervaeke explains this phenomenon by formulating, (Vervaeke, Lillicrap & Richards, 2009). ‘F’ is as the number of operators which can be performed at any given time; ‘D’ is the number of steps performed to reach a goal state. Blackmore (2002) and Vervaeke (2012) argued against this assumption. Besides this, RR is grounded in the cognitive function of consciousness just as the GWT. Furthermore, Dalton (1997) and Elitzur (1997), both criticized this ground as not deep enough to address the ‘hard problem of consciousness,’ fundamental element of wisdom. In other words, Dalton and Elitzure see the theory as useful but only cosmetic. Cohen & Dennett’s (2011) submission support Vervaeke’s grounding of the RR in cognitive function. Cohen & Dennett posited that consciousness cannot be separated from function. This suggests that RR might not address the ‘hard problem of consciousness’, but it is rightly located within the boundary that is fundamental to consciousness and wisdom. The ‘hard problem of consciousness’, was established initially by David Chalmers (1995), as the problem of providing an explanation of the