Book 1: Of Man

The external world is constantly moving/in motion which consequently we

experience through sensations

1. On Sense
When we sense an object some motion in the object is transmitted into us.
Sense is the motion caused in us through the action of external objects
on the sense, not the reception of some internal form or species from the
object.
2. On Imagination
Decaying sense
All motion has inertia, or the tendency to remain in motion, so the motion
set up in our mind by the action of objects on the sense remains after
the object is gone. All imaginations, or thoughts, and memories are
the decaying patterns of motion left over from sensation.
Understanding is the name given to thoughts caused by and
associated with language.
3. Of the Consequence or Trayne of Imaginations
Mental Discourse, or thinking, is a sequence or train of such thoughts,
sometimes random and wandering, sometimes regulated and controlled
by our desires. Our thoughts are nothing but the sequence of these
patterns of motion having their origin in the senses, hence. our thought
is limited to those things we have sensations of. We cannot form an idea
of something infinite.
4. Of Speech
Speech is the application of names to thoughts. We understand speech
when the name produces in us the same conception or motion to which
the name is meant to apply. hence definition is necessary for significant
speech. Speech can be meaningless through lack of definition or
inconsistent definition.
Biblical connections seemed random?
Contrasts with sense
5. Of Reason and Science
Reasoning is like a reckoning or calculation of the consequences of
thoughts. it follows rules, similar to the laws of nature, governing the
connection and sequence of thoughts. Many of the problems with
reasoning springs from absurd, or meaningless, speech, where we use
words that have no meaning, no sense impression, that corresponds
 with them. There are numerous sources of absurd speech that involve
using undefined terms or that involve the confusion of a name for one
type of thing with that of another, or that involve the use of made up
terms for made-up entities, such as occult natures, of which we have no
sensation.
6. Of the Interior Beginnings of Voluntary Motions, commonly called Passions.
And the Speeches by which they are expressed
Motivations? Why an individual acts the way they do?
Vital - innate and automatic to all animals
Voluntary - deliberate, we use our will
What causes voluntary actions? Thoughts and imaginations actions
Endeavor Appetite/Desire or Aversion
All Voluntary actions begin with a small motion or endeavor. Two important
classes of these are appetites, or desires, and aversions. We experience
these as pleasure or pain and we judge the objects or causes of these
feelings good or bad. All the motives of actions are such motions in the
mind, or appetites and aversions. The play in the mind of many such
motives is called deliberation, and the one that wins out, the last
appetite in deliberation, is called the will.
7. Of the Ends, or Resolutions of Discourse