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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.

Sections

___________________________Primary results___________________________

Section 2.1.1.

* Proposed theory of meaning provides empirically verifiable
conditions for delineating class of meaningful neural formations.

* Neurolingusitic structures constitute substructures of M.

* Proposal of the MMP._____________________________________

Section 2.1.2.

* Proposed theory of communication bridges the collective and
individual aspects of human action and mind in terms of ∏h that
span their full scale from the biological to the socio-historical
bands.

* Continuity of human and non-human animal minds, through
partly shared ∏e (see below).

* Proposal of the CUP as a psychological invariance.______________

Section 2.2.

* WHuLa is the key characteristic of H7kya. The discontinuity is
within our species. It is caused by the development of the
artificially natural human mind._________________________________

Table 3. Rough mapping of key animal abilities to Eras and posited nervous systems.

Posited types OfNervous Systems (NS)

Era

Simplest NS (i.e., structures of Nm )

Exclusively
natural
mind.

NS incorporating meanings
NS incorporating thinking
NS incorporating memories

NS originating and externalizing actions

NS incorporating concepts

NS incorporating representations

NS incorporating thoughts

NS originating and externalizing representations

Artificially
natural
mind.

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.



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