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2.3. Summary
To facilitate commentary, the complementary Tables 2 & 3 summarize most of
the major points. The following paragraphs either clarify a particular point in the
Tables or state a major point that I could not include in them.
Table 2. Mapping of sections to primary results of TonE.
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Sections |
___________________________Primary results___________________________ |
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Section 2.1.1. |
* Proposed theory of meaning provides empirically verifiable * Neurolingusitic structures constitute substructures of M. * Proposal of the MMP._____________________________________ |
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Section 2.1.2. |
* Proposed theory of communication bridges the collective and * Continuity of human and non-human animal minds, through * Proposal of the CUP as a psychological invariance.______________ |
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Section 2.2. |
* WHuLa is the key characteristic of H7kya. The discontinuity is |
Table 3. Rough mapping of key animal abilities to Eras and posited nervous systems.
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Posited types OfNervous Systems (NS) |
Era |
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Simplest NS (i.e., structures of Nm ) |
Exclusively |
|
NS incorporating meanings | |
|
NS originating and externalizing actions | |
|
NS incorporating concepts | |
|
NS incorporating representations | |
|
NS incorporating thoughts | |
|
NS originating and externalizing representations |
Artificially |
|
NS enabling writing | |
|
ACER = Ability to create external representations = ext¾z∙ | |
Finally, it appears that the following words: {species, individual of species,
Earth’s biota, attention, neural formations, interaction} constitute a minimum
vocabulary (V) for the small but significant part of mental phenomena considered in
this article.