Cognition and Cognitics - Definitions and Metrics for Cognitive Sciences, in Humans, and for Thinking Machines, 2nd edition, with considerations of life, through the prism "real-imaginary-values-collective", and some bubbles of wisdom for our time : Roboptics Editions Sarl : 9782970062936 : 2970062933 : 26 Feb 2020 : What is intelligence, learning, or abstraction? How to assess complexity? How much knowledge is required to help at home? Classical theories do not answer satisfactorily most of these questions; the book does, providing the main founding elements for cognitive sciences, for humans and machines. Smartphones, robots, networks and mechatronic systems, all these non-human resources invade the domain of cognition: computations, games, translations, computer vision, speech recognition, ability for robots to follow a human, or replication of movements taught by gestures. This is the field of automated cognition, "cognitics", which requires to be managed accurately, quantitatively