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Action — n. The effect that is the change in the state of material things resulting from some cause.

Aesthetics — n. Subjective evaluations made by the mind of the emotions associated the ugly, the sublime, the comic, etc. which are not an objective property of nature.

Apriorism — n. The idea that some knowledge of the physical world can be derived logically from general principles.

Atomistic — adj.The level of size and velocities in the material world at which we exists annd live our daily lives.

Awareness — n. The mental phenomena resulting from processing by the brain of sensory information obtain from the material world which can, but not always does, present as a sensation in consciousness.


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Behavior — n. The way in which an animal or person acts in response to a particular experience or stimulus.

Biological Imperatives — n. The necessity to sustain life of the individuals of a species to reproduce and the need for individuals to reproduce to sustain life of the species.

Biological Induced Action — n. The effect of an action by material thing induced by some stimulus caused by a biological entity.

Brain — A physical system of specialized cells in a living entity capable of processing information to result in mental phenomenon.


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Cause — n. That producing the effect of change in the state of material things

Cause and Effect — The process, known or unknown, by which a cause results in an effect.

Certainty — n. A state of knowledge having a absolute probability of being true and thereby not being knowable by human observation and awareness as an absolute truth.

Cognition — n. Ability to comprehend or understand.

Coma — n. A state of prolonged unconsciousness, including a lack of response to stimuli, from which it is impossible to rouse a person.

Communication — n. Transfer if information and knoqwledge between and among unus using some form of media.

Complex Emotion — n. Emotion arising simultanously from a combintion of two or more more basic emotions.

Congruence — n. In agreement such that the two things can both exist without dilemma.

Consciousness — n. The phenomenon of a subjective sensation in our mind resulting from an awareness of sensate things and actions in our environment. Lacking any material properties, consciousness is a nimbus of the mind.

Corporeal — adj. Existing as a material entitity.

Cosmic — The level of size of the universe of the material world of which we and the earth on which we liveare an integral part.


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Determinism — n. Following or relating to facts and actions as enjoined by the laws of nature.

Ding an sich — n. A "thing-in-itself" that does not require observation for representation and we, therefore, do not have direct knowledge of the thing as it is in itself. A "thing-in-itself" need not have material attributes.

Divinity — n. That which possesses powers or forces that are universal, or transcend human capacities.

Dream — n. A succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing involuntarily through the mind during sleep.


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Effect — n. The change in the state of material things resulting from one or more causes.

Eminence — n. a position of prominence or superiority.

Emotion — n. A phenemona of the state of mind giving an intuitive, private and subjective evaluation of an experience in the material world (as distinguished from an evaluation as a result of reasoning or knowledge) and capable of prompting human thought, actions and behavior

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Energy — n. That phenemona of nature that possess the material property enabling change in the material world. Energy and mass are interchangeable.

Entrophy — n. Energy lost as nature undergoes a change from order to disorder, ultimately resulting in state of complete randomness and uniformity in which change is no longer possible.

Environment — That which the corpus can perceive in the mind, either directly or indirectly, through the senses and which includes the corpus itself.

Equilibrium — n. A state of a material entitiy in which no change is possible.

Ethics — n. Human behavior deemed as acceptable by a society as a whole.

Experience — n. That to which unus is exposed and gains awareness of.


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Fact — n. That which is taken has being true as established by logical proof.

False — adj. Not being in accordance with fact or reality Antonym: True

False Knowledge — n. That held as true knowledge but founded on false facts or information.

Feelings — n. The various qualia of the sensation of emotions..

Force — That phenomena of nature possess the material property which attracts or repels a material entity. Force itself is not sensate by unus but actions caused by it are.

Free Will — An assertion that humans have the ability for determinism over their actions.

Future — n. Change that has not yet happened.


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God — n. Said to be an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and omnibenevolent being having an eternal and necessary existence.


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Hypothesis — An idea set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of a phenomena but not yet proven or disproven. See also Postulation.


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Idea — n. A abstract conception existing in the mind as a result of thought involving understanding, awareness, or activity.

Illusion — n. A perception held in the mind as being representive of the material world

whether a true or false representation. An apriorism of the mind not reflecting reality.

Inanimate Induced Action — n. The effect of an action by material thing induced by some stimulus caused by other than that from a biological entity.

Induced Action — n. A cause and effect action resulting from some stimulus in the environment.

Instinct — An innate, fixed action pattern of behavior.

Information — That which is conveyed of what is sensed by a natural process and from which meaning can be derived from its material representation through interpretation.

Inviolate — Having the appearance of, but lacking proof of, having absolute certainty and typically held as an unproven axiomatic fact ss a result of a long history of observations of fact.

Interval of Time — Number of beats of a clock that occurs during a change happening in the material world.

Is — n. The totality of all existence


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Knowable — adj. That which can be experienced or understand by the mind, including that whic remains unknown in time present.

Knowledgen. True facts or information acquired by unus through experience, logic, mathematics or learning. Knowledge itself has no material properties but may be held in the physical memory of the brain for subsequent recall and use. See also False Knowledge

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Language — n. A structured system of formalized symbols, signs, sounds, gestures, or the like used as a means of communicating information and knowledge and any meaning associated with them.

Laws of Nature — n. That which governs the determinisitic actions of nature and producing in the phenomena of cause and effect

Learn — v. Acquire skills and knowledge by study, instruction, or experience

Logic — n. A deductive system to capture, codify, or simply record arguments that are valid for a given language, and the semantics to capture, codify, or record the meanings, or truth-conditions for at least part of that language.


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Mass — n. (1) That phenemona of nature that possess the material property that, when an entity composed of it is acted upon by a force, increases in speed. (2) That which gravity acts upon in a gravitational field to produce a force when held in place, producing the sensation of weight in the human mind. (3) Mass itself is not sensate by unus but actions on and by it are.

Material — n. The phenemonon of nature that are mass, energy and forces which forms the basis of all objective phenomena.

Material World — The totality of all the objectives entities that are material, including that commonly called the universe as we know it.

Meaning — n. (1) A subjective perspective of information gained by processing the information in the brain. (2) A connotation of a specific essence of importance or significance to a unus of a thing or action.

Measurement — n. The process of quantifying some material aspect of an objective entity relative to some standard unit of measure of that aspect..

Media — n. Material means of communicating information and knowledge, including written and spoken words, images, audio, body motions, signs and symbols, etc.

Memoryn. Information stored in the material brain for subsequent use in mental processes and capable of being perceived in the conscious state of mind. Not all information is held in memory and information held in memory is susceptable to being pruned by the brain and subsequently lost/forgotten.

Mental — adj. Of or relating to phenomenon resulting from processes performed by the brain an/or phenemomon existing in the mind.

Metastable A state of equilibrium of a material entity in some material system in which the entity is stable but not at its lowest of energy and is thereby subject to change.

Mind — n. The sum of all mental phenomenon including consciousness, awareness, sensation, thought and reasoning deriving from experiences of unus in the material world.

Mindfulness — n. The phenomena of mental processes in the brain resulting from awareness by the living entity of its environment.

Morals — n. Human behavior deemed as acceptable by an individual in a society.

Myth — n. A belief asserted as an objective fact but lacking any objective basis for the assertion.


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Nnoumenon — n. An object or an event that exists independently of human sense and/or perception. See also Phenomenon.

Nothingness — n. The mental abstraction that something exists in some domain outside of reality and therefore beyond human experience.

Now — n. The occurance of the process of change in the state of existence. Synonym: Present.


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Objective — adj. Held in the mind as a perceptionof reality representing truth not influenced by a biased or subjective personal viewpoint and applied to observations, decisions, or analysis. Antonym: Subective

Observation — n. The acquisition of information directly or indirectly from a primary source.


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Past — n. Change that has happened and ended.

Perception — n. The mental phenomena resulting from awareness as being a true representation of reality in the material world but often in error.

Phenomenon — n. That which is experienced through the senses and processed by the mind and lacking any material aspects or properties as distinct from things in and of themselves which do. See also Nnoumenon.

Postulation — n. An idea or conception for the existence, fact, or truth of something as a basis for observation and reasoning leading to proof.

Possibility — n. An action or thing that may happen in time future or be the case in time present or time past without having been assessed as a probability.

Present — n. The occurance of the process of change in the state of existence. Synonym: Now.

Private — adj. Being a ineffable phenomena of the mind that cannot be communicated to others through language.

Probability — n. Liklihood of some action not now occuring in time present but to have occurred in time past or to occur in time future

Probabilistic adj. Subject to uncertainty.

Process — n. The conduct of systematic actions of material things which, following the laws of nature result in some deterministic outcome whether that intended or not.

Physical — Synonymous with Material.


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Qualia — n. The mental phenomenaperceptual experience having distinctive but ineffable qualities and presented in the mind as a sensation.

Quality — n. A distinctive attribute or characteristic of a thing.

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Reality — n. All that is true in time present or was true in time past. Reality does not now exist in time future.

Receptors — n. (1) Chemical structures in or on the corpus which produce objective electrochemical sensory data for use in processes by the brain as the result of stimulation by material aspections of the environment. (2) The interface between unus and the material world through which all information and knowledge acquired from the material world must pass. (3) The unique interface between living entities and the material world

Reflex — n. An effect of thoughtless action of animals resulting from the cause of sensory data not having undergone any mental processing.


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Self — n. The phenomena of the unus as being the object of its own reflective consciousness.

Sense — v. To gain objective awareness of objective stimuli, originating from outside or inside the body by way of objective sensory data transmitted over a system of neurons, and sometimes leading to subjective perception and consciousness in the mind.

Sensorium — n. The sensory apparatus or faculties considered as a whole.

Signalmaterial entity conveying data.

Skill — n. A learned ability to perform a determined action.

Sleep — n. state of mind and corpus with altered consciousness, inhibited sensory responses, reduced muscle activity and reduced interactions with the environment.

Spontaneous — adj. Occurring as a result of a sudden inner cause and without external agency.

Subatomic — adj. Of the quantum level of the material world at which sizes are small and speeds are greater than those we experience in our daily lives but which are an integral part of our existence.

Subjective — adj. Held in the mind as a perception of reality, whether a true perception or not, as opposed to a thing or action as it exists in reality. Antonym: Objective


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Theory — adj. Idea intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.

Things — n. Material entities

Thought — n. The mental process in which knowedge is used in mental activities such as judging, reasoning, concept formation, problem solving, and deliberation but for which sensory data from the material world is not directly involved in the process and for which consciousness is not required.

True — v. Being in accordance with fact or reality, Antonym: False

Time — n. An immaterial and indivisible continuum in which changes in the material world occurs.

Transcendent — adj. Beyond the range of material human experience.

Transduce — v. To cause a change in some physical attribute in the environment to produce the effect of a corresponding change in physical attributes of separate thing as a sensory signal.

Transducer — n. A physical object capable of sensing a stimulus in the environment and producing a sensory signal representative of but separate from stimululus itself.

Truth — n. That which is in accordance with fact or reality.


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Uncertainty — n. A state of knowledge not having an absolute probability of being true

Unknowable — n. That lying beyond the limits of human experience or understanding.

Unknown — adj.That knowable within the limits of human experience or understanding but not yet known.


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