ABSTRACT
The question of how brain becomes mind is central to cognitive science. Cognition refers to the process of knowing and the processing of knowledge. Cognitive processes are involved in such human intellectual activities as "understanding," "thinking," "knowing," "discovering," "being aware of," "reasoning," "judging," "perceiving," and "imagining." Whether a few powerful basic laws help the scientific community explain cognition depends critically on how this community represents or conceptualizes the issues. One reason for the existence of powerful laws in physics is that ideas, such as motion, were represented by fruitful concepts, such as momentum. One of the key ideas to be conceptualized is the notion of representation itself. A body of knowledge is enriched by organization and by being added to. Organization results in increasing the order of structures. The number of structures increases when new structures are uncovered or constructed. That two thinkers can communicate indicates common aspects of their knowledge structures.
