accelerating universe 42, 46-48, 59
accuracy 47
Adams, A.C. 33
adaptation 68-73, 75-76, 78-81
analyticity 8
Andromeda Nebula 22
animate vision 127
anomalies 10
anthropocentrism 53
anti-WIMPs 41
antinomies of reason 16
Armstrong, L. 105
artificial intelligence 86, 123
astronomy 1, 6, 10, 20-21, 33, 35-36, 42-43, 53, 61, 63
attentional sets 114
Australia 6
autism 99
Babylonians 14
Banks, M. 95
Barsalou, L. 129
Bayes, T. 92
Bayes' theorem 44, 58, 88, 92-100
Belgium 112
Big Bang 20, 24-25, 27, 52, 59-60
biology 8, 27, 68, 70, 72, 76-78, 80-81, 99, 123-25, 130
black holes 58
Block, N. 104
Bloom, P. 80
Bongard, J. 126
brain 70-73, 75-76, 81-82, 86-102; consciousness 106-9, 111-18; embodied cognition 123-24, 126, 129-31
caloric theory 6
causal contact 59
causal explanations 3
CERN 41
Chabris, C.F. 114
Chalmers, D. 107
change blindness 114
chapter summaries 11, 29-30, 49, 64, 82-83, 100, 118-19, 131-32
chemistry 4
Churchland, P. 127
Clavius, C. 3
closed universe 21
cold dark matter 38
Colombe, L. delle 3
complex systems 75, 77, 79-81, 87, 91, 106, 123
computation 86-89, 91-92, 97, 99 100; architectures 87-88; embodied cognition 127-28, 130-31; level 89-91
computational theory of mind 88
computers 68, 73-76, 80, 82-83, 87-88
concordance model (ACDM) 33, 38, 41, 43-48
consciousness 54—55, 57, 88, 103-22
continuous flash suppression (CFS) 116-17
Copermcan principle 18, 47, 55, 63
Copernicus, N. 1-2, 6, 10, 53, 63
cosmic microwave background (CMB) 24-27, 40-41, 44, 46-47, 58-59, 61
cosmic rays 41
cosmological constant 20-21, 38, 42, 46
cosmological natural selection 26-27
cosmology 4, 9-10, 14-32, 44-46, 52-66
creation myths 19
Cremonini, C. 3
dark energy (DE) 14, 20-21, 33-51, 58-59
dark gravity 47
dark matter (DM) 14, 33-51, 58
Darwin, C. 53
Deacon, T. 81
default-mode network 112
delusions 99
Dennett, D. 105
depression 99
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM - V) 99
direct experimental evidence 48
disciplinary matrices 10
disorders of consciousness 112-13
dorsal attention network 112
dream states 110
Eckert, P. 87
ecological balance principle 126
ecological inheritance 69-70, 91
Eddington, A. 6
Einstein, A. 6, 20-21, 23, 34, 36, 42, 44, 46
electromagnetism 25, 41-42, 53, 58, 61
empirical equivalence 35-36, 46-48
environment of evolutionary adaptation 71-73, 75-76, 78, 82
environmental filtering 68-69, 72, 82
environmentally embedded action 123-24, 126-31
epistemologists 1
Ernst, M. 95
Euclid 29
event horizon 18
evidence 1-4, 7-9, 33-37, 45, 48, 93, 95, 115-16
evolutionary psychology 68, 70-73, 75-82
exemplars 10
experimental evidence 6, 9, 61
explanatory gaps 107
falsification 4-7, 9-10, 27-28, 47, 57
Fermi Observatory 41
Fermi's paradox 56
final anthropic principle (FAP) 57
Fizeau, H. 17
flat rotation curves 43, 47-48
fluid dynamics 124
Foucault, J.-B. 17
Frank, P. 5
Freud, S. 5
Fnedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) models 33, 46-48
fronto-parietal network 112, 115
functional connectivity 112
galaxy clustering 25, 40-41, 43, 45
galaxy surveys 14, 18-20, 46, 48
gamma rays 41
Geisteswissenschaften 5
general relativity (GR) 6, 21, 28, 33-34, 36, 45, 47-48
geology 53
geometry 92
Germany 16
Gesialt 10
Gliner, E.B. 59
global neuronal workspace theory 117
Goldilocks zone 53
Grassi, H. (pseudonym: Sarsi, L.) 3
Great Silence 56
Guth, A. 60
Hahn, H. 5
hallucination 99
hard problem of consciousness 106-7
Heisenberg, W. 42
Higgs, P. 60
higher-order consciousness 104
Hodgins, J.K. 124
hollow mask illusion 97
Honda 124
hopping robots 124
Hoyle, F. 24
Hubble Space Telescope 19
human sciences 5
Hutchins, E. 130
implementation level 90, 99-100
inattentional blindness 114
incommensurability 10
indirect empirical support 48
inference 16, 28-29, 38, 46, 57, 63, 91-95, 98-99
information integration theory 118
intelligence 54, 56, 64, 86-102, 123
interdisciplinarity 123
inverse-square law 39
Jackson, F. 107
Kaluza, T. 62
Kant-Laplace nebular hypothesis 16, 18
kinematics 125
Klein, O. 62
knowledge claims 1-4, 67-68, 70-71
Koyre, A. 6
Laplace, P.-S. 16
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) 41, 58
last scattering surface 24, 61
Laudan, L. 48
Lavoisier, A. 6
laws 14-32, 43, 47, 58, 103, 107
Lemaitre, G. 22
Lemaître-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) model 46-48
Leplin, J. 48
likelihood 92
Linde, A. 60
linguistics 123
Locke, J. 67
locked-in syndrome 111
Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction hypothesis 34
Lowell Observatory 20
lucid dreaming 110
McCrea, W.H. 18
main theoretical assumptions 34, 45
maladaptation 72
Marxism 5
masked priming 116
mass 103
Mataric, M. 128
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principia) 10, 14-15
Mauchly, J. 87
Maupertuis, P.L. 15
Maxwell, J.C. 17
Mayans 14
metacognition 104
methodology 4-5, 10, 25-29, 48, 130
Michelson-Morley experiment 34
Milgrom, M. 47
mini-computers 68, 73-76, 80, 82-83
minimally conscious state 110-11
MIT 124
modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) 43-45, 47
modularity theory 73, 75-76, 97
multisensory integration 93-95
Munitz, M.K. 26
Nagel, T. 107
NASA 25
nativism 67
natural kinds 105
natural sciences 4-5, 103, 107; Naturwissenschaften 4
natural selection 53-54, 68-69, 72, 75-76, 78, 80-81
Necker cube 114
Nernst, W. 42
neural correlates of consciousness 109
Neurath, O. 5
neurobiology 99
neurocentrism 123
Newman, M. 87
Newton, I. 5-7, 10, 14, 16-17, 20, 26, 33-36, 43, 47-48, 62
non-access consciousness 104
Norton, J. 29
nucleosynthesis 52
observable universe 28
observation/observability 2, 6-7, 14—32, 34
Ockhams razor 59
Oedipus complex 5
optical theory 3
optimality 98
participatory anthropic principle (PAP) 57
perceptual awareness 109, 111—18
perceptual symbol systems 129-30
perfect cosmological principle 26
Pfeifer, R. 126
phenomenal consciousness 104-6, 108
philosophical zombies 107
philosophy of mind 67-68, 71, 73-76, 86, 88
phlogiston theory 6
photometry 14
physicalism 8
Planck scale 58
Planck's constant 42
Plato 67
plenitude, principle of 29
Popper, K. 4-7, 9-10, 27-28, 47
posterior probability 92
predictions 6-7, 27, 57, 88, 93
primordial nucleosynthesis 25
probabilistic representations 88, 98-100
psychology 5, 10, 16, 67-76, 78-82, 88, 104, 108-9, 123
Pythagoras 92
quantum theory 57
radiation 22-25, 30, 40-42, 53-54, 58-61
Raibert, M.H. 124
rational cosmology 16
rationality of theory choice 33-37
reason 1-4, 9, 16, 52, 54-55, 88, 127-30
reductionism 8
relativity theory 6, 21, 23, 28, 33-34, 36, 44-45, 47-48
reticular formation 111
Robotoddler 126
Rorty, R. 3
Rubin face-vase 114
satellites 25
Schlick, M. 5
selective pressures 69, 77, 82
sentience 104
Simons, D. 114
simplicity 47
simulators 129
Smeenk, C. 26
social learning 70, 75-77, 80-81
social sciences 4
Stahl, G.E. 6
standard candles (or standard rulers) 38, 46
Stankevicius, A. 99
stardust 52
states of consciousness 109-13
steady-state universe 24, 26, 28
Stein, L. 128
Stern, O. 42
strong anthropic principle (SAP) 56-57
Structure of Scientific Revolutions 9-10
subjectivity 105-6, 109, 114, 117
supernovae 14, 22, 26, 39, 41, 45, 47, 52, 55
synthetic/analytic distinction 8
task-negative network 112
task-positive network 112
textual evidence 2
thalamus 111
Thales 19
theology 16
theories of consciousness 117-18
tired light hypothesis 22
Toto robot 128
transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) 115
uncertainty principle 41
underdetermination of theory by evidence 7-9, 33-37, 45
Universal Turing Machine 87
vacuum density 41 42, 49, 58, 60, 62-64
velocity 103
ventriloquism 94
Venus 6
Vienna Circle 5
vision 75, 95-98, 103-5, 108, 115-17, 127-28, 130
visual masking 116
Von Neumann, J. 87
Wason, P. 73
weak anthropic principle (WAP) 55-57
weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) 41
Weinberg, S. 63
Weiss, Y. 97
Weyl, H. 21
Wolff, C. 16
Zwicky, F. 22