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treadmill
Heraclitus
Hesiod
hiking
hippocampus
Homer
Horace
Hume, David
hypothesis, astonishing
Iliad
,
The
,
The
intent
jihad
Ithaca, Greece
Ithaca, NY
James, William
Juliet
Kalypso
Keats, John
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
knight
knowledge, scientific
labyrinth
language
Laozi
learning 189
cultural
social.
See also
experience
See also
experience
Lem, Stanislaw
levels of explanation
life
as a journey
the meaning of
Logue, Christopher
London, England
love
map, cognitive
grand
marmot
Marx Brothers
meaning
meme
memory
episodic
sequence
mind.
See
brain and computation
See
brain and computation
mirror
models of the world
mole rat
Morris, William
movement, control of
motivation
Mt. Rainier, WA
nature
laws of
human
navigation
network,
default, in the brain
of linguistic constructions
of neurons
of possibilities
of social behavior, in the brain
rail.
See also
web
See also
web
neurons
Newton, Isaac
nirvana
novelty
hedonic value of
Odyssey
,
The
,
The
omens
Ovid
Panamint Springs, CA
paradise
parts
body
functional
patterns
of causality
of language use
spurious.
See also
constructions
See also
constructions
pebbles
Penelope
penguin
perception
adaptation in
categorical
of causality
phenomenal.
See also
experience, phenomenal; embodiment
See also
experience, phenomenal; embodiment
philosophy
philosophy (
continued
)
continued
)
phenomenology.
See also
experience, phenomenal; perception, phenomenal
See also
experience, phenomenal; perception, phenomenal
physics, laws of
pleasure
possibility space
Priam
probability
conditional.
See also
Bayes
See also
Bayes
problem solving
Prometheus
pursuit, of happiness
Python, Monty
reality
ultimate
virtual
religion
replicants.
See
meme
See
meme
representation
and similarity
categorical
neural.
See also
constructions, face space;
See also
constructions, face space;
phenomenal experience;
possibility space
republic
Revere, Paul
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Romeo
Ruess, Everett
Rumi, Jalal ad-Din
sausage
of knowledge
science
metaphors in
scripts, behavioral
scrub jay
self
-conquest
effective
narrative
phenomenal
-knowledge
semantics
sex
Shakespeare, William
sheep
bighorn
shmoo.
See
yeast
See
yeast
similarity
graded
simulation
situatedness
skepticism
soul
statistics
as the means for making sense of the world
in the brain
of the past as a predictor of the future.
See also
Bayes
See also
Bayes
Strugatsky, Arkady and Boris
Swanwick, Michael
symbols
synapse
Talmud
Tennyson, Alfred
Testament, Old
thermodynamics
thinking
time
arrow of
travel
Tolkien, John R. R.
Troy
tuning, of neurons
ubik
Ulysses
uncertainty
universe
virtual
universals
cognitive
human
values
Verona
virtual.
See
reality
See
reality
vision
brightness and illumination
focusing.
See also
face space; perception
See also
face space; perception
walk, silly
war room
web, of cause and effect
Whitman, Walt
wisdom
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
yeast
Zeus
zombies
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Edelman, Shimon.
The happiness of pursuit : what neuroscience can teach us about the good Life / Shimon Edelman.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN : 978-0-465-02920-4
1. Thought and thinking. 2. Cognition. 3. Self. I. Title.
BF441.E234 2012
153—dc23
2011039326
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