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Perceiving elements of the world is as old as life itself. The life-sustaining reactions of bacteria or simple protozoans demonstrate that these responses involve molecules. These molecules react highly specifically: among the profusion of molecules encountered, they recognize particular ones. Cognition therefore begins at the molecular level. Perhaps the most familiar case involves the duplication of the molecular chains making up genetic material along with their transcription and translation into matrices of amino acids.
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Riedl, R. (2019). The Systems of Cognition. In: Structures of Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13064-0_3
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