Is there such a thing as non-object-oriented cognition? Is dreaming
cognition -- what Gregory Bateson called "primary process" cognition (minus
syntax)? If dreaming is primary, then cognition did not emerge from
object-oriented activity.
If grammar makes the difference between dreaming and what we call learning,
what's the difference between dreaming and what chimps do? If 'primary
processes' like dreaming count as cognition, and cognition started as
object-oriented productive activity (rooting around for food), shouldn't we
call dreaming and other grammar-less kinds of cognition secondary?
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