cognification

Noun

cognification (uncountable)

1. The process of making objects or systems smarter and smarter by connecting, integrating sensors and building software/artificial intelligence into them.
   • Very soon most manufactured items, from shoes to cans of soup, will contain a small sliver of dim intelligence, and screens will be the tool we use to interact with this ubiquitous cognification.2016, Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, page 105
   • And conversely, we also discuss how MDSE techniques themselves can help in the improvement of AI, Machine learning, bot generation and other cognification techniques.2018, Martina Seidl, Steffen Zschaler, Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations, →ISBN
2. The process of consciously thinking about an experience or behavior.
   • In concrete terms 'artistic truth', that is, the ultimate vision derived from a work of art, and this applies to the autobiography, relates to historical truth on the basis of the art of selection and cognification of experience.1992, Nigerian Journal of American Studies - Volume 2, page 89
   • In the previous sections we discussed both how the various steps of "cognification" in the elaboration of the internal representations are combined with the mental "maneuverability" of the representations and how certain levels of representational development are associated with new capacities for...2002, Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, page 149