mental change action

Menelas definition : "mental change is mental transition motivated by a mental state, to reach a goal that is a mental state too. The purpose is to change one's mind about the world, i.e. to increase one's knowledge of it. Two kinds of mental change to improve one's knowledge: either you experiment on the world (mental_change_external_action), and the result of the experiment makes you know new things, or you think without performing any actions in the world (mental_change_internal_action)." CG Representation : [mental_change_action: _x]- (motive)-->[state_of_mind] --(content)-->[state_of_mind:_n] --(content)-->[intentional_object]<--(intentional) (motivated_by)-->[state_of_physical_object] (descriptive_result)-->[state_of_mind] (descriptive_goal)-->[state_of_physical_object] (performative_goal)-->[physical_intentional_change] (reason)-->[state_of_mind]-->(content)-->[state_of_mind:_m] --(content)-->[intentional_object]<--(intentional)%

http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/epo.owl#MentalChangeAction

Menelas definition : "mental change is mental transition motivated by a mental state, to reach a goal that is a mental state too. The purpose is to change one's mind about the world, i.e. to increase one's knowledge of it. Two kinds of mental change to improve one's knowledge: either you experiment on the world (mental_change_external_action), and the result of the experiment makes you know new things, or you think without performing any actions in the world (mental_change_internal_action)." CG Representation : [mental_change_action: _x]- (motive)-->[state_of_mind] --(content)-->[state_of_mind:_n] --(content)-->[intentional_object]<--(intentional) (motivated_by)-->[state_of_physical_object] (descriptive_result)-->[state_of_mind] (descriptive_goal)-->[state_of_physical_object] (performative_goal)-->[physical_intentional_change] (reason)-->[state_of_mind]-->(content)-->[state_of_mind:_m] --(content)-->[intentional_object]<--(intentional)%

changes take place in a mental state, and concerned human beings qua human.

human / physical

epo:MentalChangeAction

mental change action

changes that are intentionally provoked and that bear on state.

kind of abstract state, depending on the point of view one may have on physical object: spatial, morphologic, systemic.

http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/epo.owl#IntentionalChangeState