Synopsis:
- Both matter and mind are constructed out of experience: the same reality is both in the mind and in the world, it is both an event of a person's biography and of the history of the world
- Minds are made of experience (experienced events)
- The function of mind is to help the body live in an environment
- The brain is an organ that evolved because of its usefulness for survival
- Consciousness is a sequence of conscious mental states, each state being the experience of some content
- Consciousness is not a substance, it is a process ("the stream of consciousness")
- Unitary and continuous consciousness (analogous to newton's unitary and continuous space)
- Perception leads to action in the environment (not necessarily conscious)
- The brain is organized as an associative network, and associations are governed by a rule of reinforcement
- Long-term and short-term memory
- Habits as built of stimulus-response patterns
- Beliefs are rules for action
- The function of thinking is to produce habits of action
- Beliefs and habits are equivalent
- A belief/habit gets reinforced as it succeeds
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