10 Mar context

The situation/environment in which cognitive (and all other) activities occur. Place, time, and all sensory inputs (i.e. anything we can perceive in our surroundings) constitute the components of context. We filter out unnecessary details and focus on meaningful details such as who and what major objects are present.

• from Latin contextus: an assembling or putting together,
• from contexere: to interweave more than one thing,
• from com-: together + texere: to weave or braid

 

See this example of context in understanding
Keywords: extra-sensory
time
space
self
somatosensory cortex
polysemy
meaningful
intuition
interaction
filtering
domain
disambiguation
common sense
attention
ambiguity
cue
cognition
hippocampus
interpretation
References: context
knowledge representation
logic
taxonomy