Are plants sentient? Like other aspects of the cognitive potential plants, this is a controversial issue, often driven by analogies and seldom supported on solid theoretical grounds. Sentience understood in sciences as capacity to feel. I suggest that because plants’ evolved adaptations morphological plasticity, sessile nature ecological constraints, they are unlikely have requisite complexity ...

Three studies tested the relationship between political extremism and cognitive complexity in an adult sample (N = 135), a sample of students (N = 145), and a sample of political party members (N = 47). According to value pluralism theory, advocates of extreme ideologies exhibit low levels of cognitive complexity. Context theory, in contrast, states that extremists think in a more complex and s...

Cognitive complexity measures quantify human difficulty in understanding the source code based on cognitive informatics foundation. The discipline derives cognitive complexity on a basis of fundamental software factors i.e, inputs, outputs, and internal processing architecture. An approach to integrating Granular Computing into the new measure called Structured Cognitive Information Measure or ...

A study was conducted to determine if leaders with high cognitive complexity scores had better performance and manifest different behavior than leaders with low complexity scores. The results Indicated that the performance of groups with high complexity leaders was significantly better than groups with low complexity leaders. No specific behavioral differences were found, but high complexity le...