It is a leap in the process of cognition. 这是认识过程的一次飞跃。
A feeling or emotion as distinguished from cognition, thought, or action. 感情有别于认识,思想或行为的感情或情感
Emotions are not tools of cognition. 情绪并不能作为认知的工具。
cognition
[ noun ] the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning <noun.tops>
Cognition \Cog*ni"tion\, n. [L. cognitio, fr. cognoscere, cognitum, to become acquainted with, to know; co- + noscere, gnoscere, to get a knowledge of. See {Know}, v. t.] 1. The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.
I will not be myself nor have cognation Of what I feel: I am all patience. --Shak.
2. That which is known.
The chimp, who lives at Ohio State University's animal laboratory here, is one of only two monkeys in the world able to count, and the only one that understands the concept of zero, said Sally Boysen, director of the lab's primate cognition project.