cognitive function

Cognitive function - the essence of what it means to be alive. We have nothing more than cognitive function. It's nothing really, just five senses and some capacity to interpret/analyze the data gathered with those senses. And yet it's more important than than money, success, fame. It's more important than friends, family, and health. No matter what we can buy or how happy or excited we can be, in the end we can have nothing more than cognitive function. No matter how sad or lonely or angry we are, there's still nothing more, and nothing less. Sensory data and the interpretation thereof. Every human endeavor - every hobby, conviction, and project - is undertaken simply to pass the time; nothing matters. Even if our environment and circumstances change dramatically over time, our cognitive function remains the same. Why do we fight and struggle and toil so that we may find the circumstances perceived by our cognition to be more "favorable" to us? To pass the time? We're all born with the one thing that truly means anything to us: our ability to perceive. Is to perceive to exist? I think - therefore I am?