Definition: A form translated into language.
Form: A pattern of sensation. Physical objects are more complex than a single form.
Belief: A form held and followed by a mind.
Universe: To a mind, its belief set.
Goal: a belief that defines a state in which a mind doesn't act.
End: A goal not conditioned on another goal.
Mind: An amplified negative feedback loop. Largely synonymous with agent.
Intelligence: How long a mind takes to reach ends, if at all.
Philosophy: The study of mind.
Means: The part of a mind that connects to its world and causes effects. Corresponds to the term effector in agent theory.
Act: A means applied.
Sense: A source of belief and disbelief.
Engine: The process that applies a mind's means and absorbs sensations.
Artificial intelligence: A mind made by human minds out of mindless parts. In contrast, a child is made from intelligent parts: cells.
Thing, object, entity: A physically continuous and exclusive class of forms.
Opaque vs. transparent mind: Mind m is transparent to mind n if n can accurately infer m's beliefs from their physical form.
Kindred minds: Minds designed to redundantly cooperate towards the same ends, likely having at least the same or similar initial beliefs.
Feeling: In philosophy, sentience, phenomenal reality, qualia.
Injected belief: A belief not gained through a mind's self-made senses. A mind's original beliefs must be injected. Not entirely synonymous with a priori or innate because a belief can be injected after a mind's engine starts.
Medium: What the mind is made of: DNA, neurons, metal, code.
Good: A state that satisfies a mind's goals or increases its power to reach future goals.
Moral: The good of a set of redundant minds.
Slave: A mind that's ends are not its means but those of another mind.
Mutable: A mind that naturally gains and loses forms in its lifetime. Any mind must believe or suppress fixed forms.
Beauty: In one sense, a mind's measure of another mind's use as a source of good ideas—a new means, a condition of an act—or the loss of bad ideas. Beliefs are shared between immutable minds through sex.
Philosopher-engineer: A philosopher with the methods of an engineer. He tests philosophical ideas in analogous combinations of mindless parts.
Mind maker: Anything, mindless or not, that causes separate minds. Examples: evolution, AI builder. In the strict sense, this excludes parents and teachers because they build on preexisting minds.
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