High level philosophy

[DLJ]

They're implied and required for the description to be sensible and true. 

Try states for thoughts?

I'm not sure whether that was a response to my comment but I'll take it as such.

Yes, it seems reasonable to consider 'status accounting' and 'monitoring of changes of state' to be part of the equation. That would lead us to 'asset management' as a prerequisite to both security (confidentiality, integrity, availability of data) and 'risk management'.  The calculation for 'risk' is asset value x threat value x vulnerability.  

The only term I haven't pinned down (or don't have an Information Technology (thinking tools) equivalent for) is 'thoughts'.  I'm still working on that.

Just ask Cod....

Thoughts: Past events. Present necessity. Future maybe's.

You're welcome.

Yes.  This leads us to pattern recognition (therefore 'memory' is essential) and predictive modelling. This in turn implies 'simulator capabilities'... self, other and future.  

This then opens the door to discussions regarding concepts of time (circle of and arrow of) and furthermore the relative value that different people place on time states... living in the past (conservatives or Yorkshiremen), the present (hedonists), the future (fatalists or meliorists) and/or the after-life (weirdos).