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1. More precisely, we shall adopt the following general rule to define“simulated mental state” in terms of “mentalsimulation of”:

For example, by applying RULE to RES-1, we obtain the followingdefinition of “simulated mental state”:

2. By applying RULE (see footnote 1) to RES+REU, we also obtain thefollowing explicit definition of “simulated mentalstate”:

Please notice that the relations among RES+REU, PROC, and SIM+ aresuch that:

• if there are mental states standing in the relationbeing amental simulation of, then there aresimulated mentalstates, and vice versa;
• if there aresimulated mental states, then there aresimulation processes, and vice versa;
• if there are mental states standing in the relationbeing amental simulation of, then there aresimulationprocesses, and vice versa.

For this reason, we shall often swiftly move from one category to theother. When there is no need to draw any fine-grained distinctionamong these different notions, we shall use the expression“mental simulation” as a generic umbrella term. Insection 4, we shall also use the expression “mental simulationevents” to pick outsimulated mental states-or-simulationprocesses.

3. Moreover, bothM* andP* aremental simulationevents.

4. To be precise, it is instances of higher-level simulation processesthat have features (a) and (b). However, in order tosimplify the exposition, we shall put the token/type distinctionaside.