Cognition and Cognitics - Definitions and Metrics for Cognitive Sciences in Humans and for Thinking Machines 2nd edition with considerations of life through the prism real-imaginary-values-collective and some bubbles of wisdom for our time

What is intelligence learning or abstraction? How to assess complexity? How much knowledge is required to help at home? Classical theories do not answer satisfactorily most of these questions; the book does providing the main founding elements for cognitive sciences for humans and machines. Smartphones robots networks and mechatronic systems all these non-human resources invade the domain of cognition: computations games translations computer vision speech recognition ability for robots to follow a human or replication of movements taught by gestures. This is the field of automated cognition cognitics which requires to be managed accurately quantitatively. This second edition is augmented to consider cognition in a more global perspective where life appears as a rainbow with four fundamental colors: real imaginary values and collective. There emerges a new apprehension of time and emotions as well as multiple elements of wisdom both as principles and in concrete cases.