What role do irrational factors play in the cognitive process

Function: hinders its own development and draws false understandings.

Irrational factors play an important role in controlling and regulating the occurrence and cessation of people's cognitive activities and the exertion and inhibition of the subject's cognitive ability.

Practice is the driving force for the development of cognition, and the effect of practice on cognition must be through irrational factors such as emotion and will. People are always engaged in practical and cognitive activities under the influence of certain emotions and wills. Positive emotional emotions inject vitality into cognitive activities and are a driving force for the development of cognition.

The will is also an important supporting force and driving force for the understanding of people.

Extended information: Under the stimulation of irrational factors such as emotion and will, it will lead to intuition and inspiration, and the non-logical force of intuition and inspiration can make up for the lack of logical thinking and stimulate people's creativity, which is an important cognitive ability.

Strong curiosity and strong interest can lead to all kinds of imagination and fantasy, and imagination and fantasy are extremely valuable qualities in scientific creation.

Rational thinking and cognition are only functions of the brain. The brain, like other human organs, is nothing but the objectification of will, the outward manifestation of will. Thus, the will is the first nature and is the master, and reason is the second nature and the servant.

Reason is nothing but a tool for man's impulse to realize his will and satisfy his desires.

On the surface, human behavior and people's understanding of the world seem to be dominated and dominated by reason. In fact, it is the will that drives reason behind it. The will is like a strong blind man, carrying the cripple of reason, which can see, and letting reason act as a guide.

People always find all kinds of reasons to act because of the desire of the will. It is always the desire to pursue first, and then reason provides the argument and basis for this desire. This argument, which exalts the will and devalues reason, is a typical manifestation of Schopenhauer's irrationalism.

Because irrational factors have an activating and driving effect on the dialectical process of cognition (motivation, inducement, excitation), practice is the driving force of all human activities, and it is also the internal driving force of cognitive activities.

This internal drive needs a developed medium to strengthen and stimulate. Irrational factors activate and drive the dialectical process of cognition, so as to form a complete understanding of the object and achieve the goal of cognition.

Attention to irrational factors:

People with rich sensibility and knowledge do not have the same depth of understanding as people with poor experience. This maxim emphasizes that rational knowledge is to be illustrated by perceptual knowledge. Generally speaking, we can know that irrational factors are what we call intuition in life, inspiration, and confidence, which can motivate, drive, and control our behavior.

1. Perceptual cognition and rational cognition.

1. Differences. Different from the connection with the object of cognition: perceptual cognition is generated by the subject of cognition after actual contact with the object through the sense organs, and the connection between it and the object of cognition is direct and direct.

Rational cognition is obtained by the epistemic subject through the processing and production of perceptual materials by abstract thinking, and its connection with the epistemic object is indirect and indirect.

The way of reflection is different: perceptual cognition forms a vivid and direct image of the object through the contact between the sensory organs and the object of cognition, and it reflects the object in the form of a concrete image and has imagery. Rational cognition is through abstract thinking, revealing the essence from phenomena and inevitability from contingency, which reflects objects in an abstract way and has abstractness.

The depth and level of the object are different: perceptual cognition reflects the specific characteristics, superficiality and external connection of things. Rational cognition reflects the essence, internal connections, and laws of things.

It is precisely because of the qualitative difference between the two that the rise from perceptual understanding to rational understanding is a leap in the process of understanding.

2. Connection: Rational cognition depends on perceptual cognition. Perceptual cognition is the lower stage of cognition, and it is the basis of rational cognition. The reason why rational things are reliable is precisely because it is superior to perceptual cognition, otherwise, rational cognition will become a source of water without a source, a source without roots.

Rational cognition relies on perceptual cognition, which is materialism in epistemology.

Perceptual understanding needs to be deepened and developed into rational understanding. This is determined by the limitations of perceptual cognition and the task and purpose of cognition. Perceptual cognition reflects the phenomena and external relations of things, while the fundamental task of cognition is to reveal the essence and laws of things, and the purpose of cognition is to use the acquired rational cognition to guide practice.

Therefore, it is necessary to develop perceptual knowledge into rational knowledge, which is the dialectic in epistemology.

Perceptual cognition and rational cognition are unified in practice, and both perceptual cognition and rational cognition are produced on the basis of practice in the final analysis. The transition from perceptual understanding to rational understanding is also ultimately realized on the basis of practice.

2. Rational and irrational factors.

1. Differences. There is a qualitative difference between rational and irrational factors in terms of content and form.

2. Contact. Perceptual cognition and rational cognition are interdependent. Rational cognition depends on perceptual cognition, which is epistemological materialism; Perceptual cognition has yet to develop into rational cognition, which is the dialectic of epistemology.

In the process of actual understanding, perceptual cognition and rational cognition are intertwined and penetrate each other.

On the one hand, the rational factor permeates the sensibility, and the same contact with objective things, due to different theoretical preparations, the feelings may be very different;

On the other hand, there is an element of emotion permeated by reason. Rational cognition is not only based on perceptual cognition, but also explained through perceptual cognition.

1) Irrational factors have an activation and driving effect on the dialectical process of cognition (motive, inducing, exciting) Practice is the driving force of all human activities, and it is also the internal driving force of cognitive activities. This internal drive needs a developed medium to strengthen and stimulate. Through the activation and driving effect of the dialectical process of cognition, irrational factors promote the subjective thinking to be in a state of tension and awakening, so as to form a complete understanding of the object and realize the goal of cognition.

2) Irrational factors have a moderating effect on the dialectical process of cognition, which is manifested in the following: Promote the formation of mindset and dissolve mindset.

3) Referential role. Everything is prescriptive in many ways. When judging whether objective things meet their own needs, people refer to irrational factors such as the subject's will and emotion, and highlight objects closely related to their own needs as the object of cognition.

4) The value pursuit of goodness and beauty.