Cognitive Hierarchy and the Sensory Mind

Our advanced cognitive skills have built upon the neural architectures for vision and for speech/hearing.  As our cognitive skills have developed, they have built upon one another.  This can be conceptualized as layers of advanced cognitive skills.

The fact that our cognitive skills have built upon the senses of vision and speech/hearing is demonstrated in Plato’s writings.  Plato also observed hierarchical levels of cognitive development on both vision-based and speech-based skills.  As we have developed our cognitive skills we have certainly had advances in those skills. Hence there are lower and higher levels of cognitive skills based upon both the vision and speech-based cognition.

The model in the figure shows the evolution of our Sensory Mind into higher cognitive levels.  Figure A is the base as taken from the earlier differentiation of vision and speech based mind, and Figures B and C respectively model advanced levels of cognitive development.

Figures.  A.  The base for the Sensory Mind as developed earlier. B. Adding initial levels of cognitive skills to the sensory abilities and C. Adding higher levels of cognitive skills.