Visual 3 What is cognition, decision and clinical? GIM November 7

Evolution of clinical decision making 

pre and post AI

What is cognition?

What is dual processing theory of cognition?

Speakers thoughts: https://medicinedepartment.blogspot.com/2025/08/lecture-module-current-role-of-ai-in.html?m=1

What is decision?

Word picture:

Imagine you are "Cutting a vegetable with a knife" and imagine what is the next step in your cooking once cutting is over?

Cision is the process of cutting originated from Proto-Indo-European language as *skh₁-ie, *skh₁-io, and that is related to the Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to cut, hew”), whence also Latin caedō (“to cut, strike”) in Sanskrit aka खिद्

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D

Looks like Europeans added an s to the beginning of khid in Sanskrit aka caed in Latin and then subsequently removed the d when they used cutting as a metaphor for science!

The word science is derived from Proto-Indo-European language as *skh₁-ie, *skh₁-io, meaning "to incise". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science

So imagine some of the cutting instruments you know of and check out their names: 

Nouns: scissors, sickle, 

Verbs: incise, size up, cut to size 

Also part of: abscise; avicide; biocide; caesarian; caesura; cement; chisel; -cide; circumcise; circumcision; concise; decide; decision; deicide; excise (v.); excision; felicide; feticide; filicide; floricide; fratricide; fungicide; gallinicide; genocide; germicide; herbicide; homicide; incise; incision; incisor; infanticide; insecticide; legicide; liberticide; libricide; matricide; parricide; patricide; pesticide; precise; precision; prolicide; scissors; senicide; spermicide; suicide; uxoricide; verbicide.

Unquote: https://www.etymonline.com/word/*kae-id-

Needless to say, not everything ending with cise means cutting such as the words "exercise" and "exorcise" apparently have no connection to cutting: https://www.etymonline.com/word/exorcise

Image with CC licence: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sickle_and_throwing_knife_at_Manchester_Museum.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

And the image of the sickle and science is contained in an important writing tool for science! The question mark is a very important instrument of scientific scepticism:

Creative commons license: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark#/media/File%3AQuestion_opening-closing.svg

To reach a de cision is to stop cutting and stop questioning further! As in de addiction or de escalation, which means to stop addiction or stop escalation!

In other words going with the cutting edge pictorial cooking analogy above, one simply moves to the next phase of cooking once the cutting of it's ingredients is over.

Decision etymology:

https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/2eujw6/where_did_the_root_cision_come_from_decision/

Clinical etymology:

"Clinical" comes from the Sanskrit Klinna (क्लिन्न) refers to “dripping (clothes) and in general suggests moisture as a result of which it's also used to denote putrefaction due to microorganism action.

https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/klinna

Greeks took the word to clean their beds and for them it means "kline or  "bed, couch, that on which one lies! 

Europeans took the word to their clinics which were essentially glorified bedsides!

It's a mystery (other than the connotations of slipperiness) as to how klinna also came to mean 'lean' and became used as a suffix for words such as: incline, decline, recline and if you are to believe this link 👇

https://www.etymonline.com/word/clinical, 

Then even the ones below:

acclivity; anticline; clemency; client; climate; climax; cline; clinic; clinical; clino-; clitellum; clitoris; decline; declivity; enclitic; heteroclite; incline; ladder; lean (v.); lid; low (n.2) "small hill, eminence;" matroclinous; patroclinous; polyclinic; proclitic; proclivity; recline; synclinal; thermocline.

Also here:

https://ahdictionary.com/word/indoeurop.html