Index

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Alexander, L., 178

Alexander, R., 177n2

Al Khalili, J., 143, 180n9

Aquinas, St. T., 167, 173n9

astrology, 68

atheism, 24, 93–94, 158

Australopithecus, 76

Barkow, J., 174n6, 177n2

Barrett, D., 176nn2, 3

Barrett, J., 176n12

Baudelaire, C., 68

birthday paradox, 143

black swans, 48, 175n1

Bostrom, N., 179n4

Boyer, P., 176n14

Brooks, M., 145, 146

C3PO, 125

Cantor, 132, 135, 149, 180nn6–8

Cantor’s Diagonal Proof, 132–35

cardinality of sets, 129, 132, 135–37

Cartwright, N., 146, 169, 182n2

Catholic Church, xiii, xiv, 155

causation, 42–43, 139–41

Chalmers, D., 5, 152–53, 171nn3, 4, 181nn1, 2, 4

Cheney, D., 176n4, 177n2

Cho, A., 179n1

color inversion, 118

Commander Data, 125

commonplace, the, 136–42

computational theory of mind, 4

consciousness, 6, 115–21, 123, 126–28, 142

consequentialism, 83–86, 89, 104, 145

Cunningham, S., 172n3

dark energy, 5, 138, 150, 163, 165, 182n3

dark matter, 5, 138, 150, 163, 165

Dawkins, R., 94, 172nn2, 3, 178n4

De Waal, F., 75, 177n2

Deacon, T., 176n4

Dennett, D., 51, 56–61, 98, 172n2, 176nn8, 12–15, 17–18, 178n4

Dennett-Wilson theory, 62–64

deontology, 88–89, 104, 178n5

Descartes, 2, 3, 96, 121

Diamond, J., 178n1

Dietrich, E., 144, 178n5, 182n4

Dietrich, E., and V. Hardcastle, 182n4

Dostoyevsky, F., 24

dualism, 2–6

Dugatkin, L., 177n3

Dunham, W., 132, 179n6, 180nn6, 8

Durkheim, E., 171n1, 172n1

Eliade, M., 171n1, 172n1

facts, 1

First Law of Thermodynamics, 3, 10, 171

Galileo, xiii–xiv

Ghost Dances, 109

ghosts, 14, 104, 122, 163

Gödel, K., 144

Goldstein, R., 144

Gould, S., 21, 103, 104, 105, 106, 148, 179n7

grok, 153–54

Haide, J., 78, 80, 177nn2, 4, 5, 6

Harris, S., 172n2, 173n7, 178n4

Havi, J., 143

Heil, J., 181n1

Heinlein, R., 153

Heuristic of Sufficient Reason, 43

Hilbert, D., 149

Hillix, W., 176n4

Hitchens, C., 172n2, 178n4, 179n8

Holocaust, 25

Homo erectus, 54, 76

Homo hablis, 54, 76

Homo religiosus, 155

Homo sapiens, 178

Hooker, B., 178n3

Hume, D., 140, 141, 177n4

infinity, 115, 128–32, 135–37, 142

Inglehart, R., 173n10

Israel, J., 180n1

Job (Book of), 29–31, 46

Joyce, R., 177n2

Kahneman, D., 174n6

Kant, I., 177n4, 178n5

Kaplan, R., 143

Kennedy, J., 144

Koch, C., 182n4

Kolodiejchuk, B., 173n1

Large Hadron Collider, 113, 181n2

LSD, 120

Legare, C., and S. Gelman, 12, 172n2, 179n9

Legare, C., and E. M. Evans, 172n2

Leibniz, G. W., 41, 88, 174n7

lichens, 54, 103

Maher, B., 172n2

marijuana, 120

Matrix, The, 96, 121–23

McGinn, C., 145

Merricks, T., 180n10

Metzinger, T., 179n5

Miller, G., 177n4

Miller, J. D., 175n3

Miller, K., 175n3

Mlodinow, L., 174n4

Moore, M., 178

Mother Teresa, 28–29, 99, 173n1

Müller-Lyer Illusion, 95

Nagel, T., 117, 124, 145, 179n1

nonoverlapping magisterial, 103–6

Overgaard, S., 175n9

Pagels, H., 19, 172n4

Parsons, K., 173n5

Paul, G., 178n6, 179n6

Peirce, C. S., 19, 20, 172n5

Pepperberg, I., 176n4

Phoenix Lander, 136

physicalism, 3–5, 119

Pilgrim’s Progress, xv

Pirates of the Caribbean, 124–25

Pope, Alexander, 41

Poundstone, W., 145

Priest, G., 144

Principle of Sufficient Reason, 41–43

probability, 46

problem of evil, xvi, 30

Prozac, 120

quantum mechanics, 42–43, 119, 139–40, 143–44, 152–53, 163, 165–66, 171, 180

rape, 13, 156, 175n1

rarity, 115, 136, 149

religion, definition of, 10–14

R2D2, 125

Russell, B., 173n6

Russell, D., 175n2

Russell, J., 172n2

Sagan, C., 57, 176n10

Savage-Rumbaugh, S., 176n4

Science wars, 173n5

scrutability, 152–54

Segal, J., 174n2

Segall, M., 95

Segerstrale, U., 173n5

Seyfarth, R., 176n4, 177n2

Shettleworth, S., 176n4

Sider, T., 181n1

Singer, P., 178n3

Smolin, L., 143, 144

Sober, E. 176n7, 177n2

Sokal’s Hoax, 173n5

Sorensen, R., 145

Spong, J., 177n1

Stonehenge, 9, 14–15, 22

Taleb, N., 175n1

Tammet, D., 179n2

Tevatron Collider (Fermi National Laboratory), 113–14, 149, 165, 179n4

transcendental numbers, 138, 150

transfinite cardinals, 135

transfinite realm, 135

UFOs, 13–14, 23, 163

Verbal Kint, 68

Voynich Manuscript, 145

Vyse, S., 66, 177nn1, 3

Wakeless, H., 174n5

Wallace, D., 132, 180nn6, 8

Weinberg, S., 100, 178n3

Wilson, D., 51, 53–56, 60–64, 98, 102, 107, 173n8, 176nn5, 6, 18, 177n1, 178n2

Wolchover, N., 180n2

Xanax, 120

Yoon, C., 176n11

Yourgrau, P., 144

zombies, 123–27