The mind is not a passive mirror of the world but an active participant in constructing reality.
心灵不是世界的被动镜子，而是构建现实的积极参与者。
What we see is not simply given but actively constructed through complex processes.
我们所看到的不是简单地给予的，而是通过复杂过程积极构建的。
Every cognitive act is an act of information processing.
每一个认知行为都是信息处理的行为。
The study of cognition is the study of how human beings understand their world.
认知的研究就是研究人类如何理解他们的世界。
Perception is not determined simply by stimulus patterns; rather it is a dynamic searching for the best interpretation of the available data.
感知不仅仅由刺激模式决定，而是对可用数据的最佳解释的动态搜索。
The environment will appear different to different observers depending on what they are prepared to see.
环境对不同观察者会显得不同，这取决于他们准备看到什么。
Memory is not a recording device but a system that actively organizes and reconstructs information.
记忆不是录音设备，而是一个积极组织和重建信息的系统。
Seeing, hearing, and remembering are all acts of construction.
The world of experience is produced by the man who experiences it.
Cognition refers to all processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used.
认知指的是所有感官输入被转换、简化、详细阐述、存储、恢复和使用的过程。