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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
See
forethought
forgetting
free will
Galadriel
Galileo
gene expression
Gimli, son of Gloin
grammar.
See
constructions
See
constructions
gravity
happiness
definitions
hedonic
value
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