--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Glen Sizemore <gmsizemore2@...> wrote: > One might ask what, exactly, is "cognitive function"? I was being deliberately vague, because I didn't want to get into that kind of discussion. But now that you have raised the issue, I'll fill in a tiny bit of detail. It seems to me that a rule is a natural language statement, and "following a rule" involves a self-perception as a way of monitoring our own behavior to see whether it is consistent with the rule. Regards, Neil GOOGLE: http://groups.google.com/group/Wittrs FREELIST: //www.freelists.org/archive/wittrs/09-2009 TODAY: http://alturl.com/whcf 3 DAYS: http://alturl.com/d9vz 1 WEEK: http://alturl.com/yeza YAHOO: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wittrs/