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INDEX
 
 
Achilles Shield of
 
action
 
and personal accountability
 
consequences
 
planning
 
affect
 
affordance
 
Agamemnon
 
age, old
 
agency
 
Ajax
 
Alexander of Macedon
 
algorithm
 
analogy
 
anvil
 
Aristotle
 
Athena
 
assumptions in inference and learning
 
augury
 
Aulis
 
 
Bacon, Francis
 
Baggins
 
Bilbo
 
Frodo
 
Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
 
Banks, Iain M.
 
Bayes
 
beauty
 
facial
 
scenic
 
Birdalone
 
boredom
 
Borges, Jorge Luis
 
Borrego Springs, CA
 
Boston, MA
 
brain
 
and computation
 
dynamics
 
metaphors and similes for
 
over brawn
 
Buddha, the
 
Buddhism
 
 
cabinet, executive
 
Calchas
 
cash register
 
castles, defending
 
cause and causality
 
Cavafy, Constantine Peter
 
change
 
chess
 
code
 
communication
 
computation
 
analog
 
cognitive
 
digital
 
nature of
 
statistical
 
concepts
 
constructions, linguistic
 
contentment
 
coordination, in dialogue
 
Corinth
 
creativity
 
Crick, Francis
 
crow
 
culture
 
 
Dante Alighieri
 
Dawkins, Richard
 
death
 
Death Valley, California
 
democracy
 
depression
 
development
 
desert
 
desires
 
Dick, Philip K.
 
Diogenes of Sinope
 
Donne, John
 
drinking problem
 
duck
 
 
Egan, Greg
 
Eliot, T. S.
 
evolution
 
co-
 
cultural
 
of consciousness
 
embodiment
 
emotion
 
epigenetics
 
ethics
 
experience
 
episodic
 
learning from
 
phenomenal
 
shared
 
 
face space
 
familiarity
 
Fitzgerald, Richard
 
flow
 
forethought
 
foresight.
See
forethought
 
forgetting
 
free will
 
 
Galadriel
 
Galileo
 
gene expression
 
Gimli, son of Gloin
 
grammar.
See
constructions
 
gravity
 
 
happiness
 
definitions
 
hedonic
 
value
 

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