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title: The Understanding of the Brain
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| PHYSICAL OBJECTS AND STATES                                                                                        | STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS                                                                                         | KNOWLEDGE IN OBJECTIVE SENSE                                                          |
| 1. Inorganic: Matter and Energy of Cosmos                                                                          | Subjective Knowledge                                                                                            | Records of Intellectual Efforts                                                       |
| 2. Biology: Structure and Actions of All Living Beings; Human Brains                                               | Experience of: Perception, Thinking, Emotions, Dispositional Intentions, Memories, Dreams, Creative Imagination | Philosophical, Theological, Scientific, Historical, Literary, Artistic, Technological |
| 3. Artifacts: Material Substrates of human creativity, of tools, of machines, of books, of works of art, of music. |                                                                                                                 | Theoretical Systems: Scientific Problems, Critical Arguments                          |

_Fig. 6-1, Three Worlds_