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The Infomration Cognitive Layer is a level of the Cognitive Model. See: xapend.i_cog_model

Information is the second level of cognitive objects that represents or embodies the semantics of data and facts collected from the real-world or yielded by mental processes. Information is the third essence for modeling the natural world in addition to matter and energy as described in the IME-I model in

Definition 1.

    Definition  10.  Information  is  a  general  form  of  

abstract objects perceived by human brains and represented by symbolical, mathematical, communication, computing, and cognitive systems.

    According to Definition 10, anything intangible, 

which the brain may acquire and process or which a

Figure 1: The Information Layer of the Cognitive Model

1. Information - A concept aggregating data concepts together, in other words, Data that has been given meaning by way of relational connection