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Index
Dedication
Contents
Preface: Scientia as a Meme
The Longevity Factor
The Illusion of Explanatory Depth
Synaptic Transfer
The Genetic Book of the Dead
Exaptation
The Virial Theorem
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Emergence
Natural Selection
DNA
Genetic Rescue
Positive Feedbacks in Climate Change
The Anthropocene
The Noösphere
The Gaia Hypothesis
Ocean Acidification
Intertemporal Choice
Future Self-Continuity
The Climate System
The Universe of Algorithms
Babylonian Lottery
Class Breaks
Recursion
Referential Opacity
Adaptive Preference
Antagonistic Pleiotropy
Maladaptation
Epigenetics
The Transcriptome
Polygenic Scores
Replicator Power
Fallibilism
Intellectual Honesty
Epsilon
Systemic Bias
Confirmation Bias
Negativity Bias
Positive Illusions
Russell Conjugation
Empathic Concern
Naïve Realism
Motivated Reasoning
Spatial Agency Bias
Counting
On Average
Number Sense
Fermi Problems
Exponential
Impedance Matching
Homeostasis
Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety
Variety
Allostasis
The Brainstem
The Principle of Least Action
“The Big Bang”
Multiverse
Gravitational Radiation
The Non-Returnable Universe
The Big Bounce
Affordances
Enactivism
Paleoneurology
Complementarity
The Schnitt
Matter
Substrate Independence
PT Symmetry
Gravitational Lensing
The Cosmological Constant, or Vacuum Energy
Invariance
Unruh Radiation
Determinism
State
Parallel Universes of Quantum Mechanics
The Copernican Principle
Rheology
The Premortem
It’s About Time
Maxwell’s Demon
Included Middle
Relative Deprivation
Antisocial Preferences
Reciprocal Altruism
Isolation Mismatch
Mysterianism
Relative Information
Time Window
Effective Theory
Coarse-Graining
Common Sense
“Evolve” As Metaphor
The Reynolds Number
Metamaterials
Stigler’s Law of Eponymy
Comparative Advantage
Premature Optimization
Simulated Annealing
Attractors
Anthropomorphism
Cognitive Ethology
Mating Opportunity Costs
Sex
Supernormal Stimuli
Costly Signaling
Sexual Selection
Phylogeny
Neoteny
The Neural Code
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
Regression to the Mean
Scientific Realism
Fundamental Attribution Error
Habituation
General Standardization Theory
Scaling
The Menger Sponge
The Holographic Principle
The Navier-Stokes Equations
The Scientist
Bayes’ Theorem
Uncertainty
Equipoise
Ansatz
“On The Average”
Blind Analysis
Homophily
Social Identity
Reflective Beliefs
Alloparenting
Cumulative Culture
Life History
Haldane’s Rule of the Right Size
Phenotypic Plasticity
Sleeper Sensitive Periods
Zone of Proximal Development
Length-Biased Sampling
Construal
Double Blind
The Law of Small Numbers
Commitment Devices
Illusory Conjunction
Bisociation
Conceptual Combination
Boolean Logic
Neurodiversity
Case-Based Reasoning
Media Richness
Peircean Semiotics
Historiometrics
Population Thinking
Bounded Optimality
Satisficing
De-Anonymization
Functional Equations
Decentering
Transfer Learning
The Symbol-Grounding Problem
Abstraction
Networks
Morphogenetic Fields
Herd Immunity
Somatic Evolution
Criticality
Information Pathology
Iatrotropic Stimulus
Mismatch Conditions
Actionable Predictions
The Texas Sharpshooter
Digital Representation
Embodied Thinking
The Trolley Problem
Mental Emulation
Prediction Error Minimization
Impossible
Optimization
The Cancer Seed and Soil Hypothesis
Simplistic Disease Progression
Effect Modification
The Power Law
Type I and Type II Errors
The Ideal Free Distribution
Chronobiology
Deliberate Ignorance
The Need for Closure
Polythetic Entitation
Quines
Verbal Overshadowing
Liminality
Possibility Space
Alternative Possibilities
Indexical Information
Emotion Contagion
Negative Evidence
Emptiness
Effect Size
Surreal Numbers
Standard Deviation
The Breeder’s Equation
Fixpoint
Non-Ergodic
Confusion
Coalitional Instincts
The Scientific Method
Humility
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
Also by John Brockman
Copyright
About the Publisher
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