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Concept	Pages and other locators
aboutness	Notes: 244
absolute absence	41, 42, 211; Epilogue: 213, 216, 217; Notes: 251; Appendix: 263, 264, 265, 266, 267
absorber theory and quantum direct-action theory	32, 35; Thinker register: 229, 232, 233; Notes: 235, 236
abstraction	12, 37, 39, 85, 92, 95, 96, 97, 98, 103, 123, 131, 140, 150, 151, 152, 153, 156, 160, 168, 169, 170, 207; Glossary: 224; Thinker register: 233; Notes: 242, 250; Reading recommendations: 252; Appendix: 266
action-scaled affordances	94, 95; Notes: 242
active archive	150, 151, 152, 153; Notes: 245
active inference	99
active perceptual systems	94
active threshold boundary	122, 123, 144, 206, 207
actual entities	121, 122; Notes: 243
actual occasion	121, 122
actual, the	5, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 47, 70, 72, 76, 95, 124, 125, 126, 127, 140, 142, 143, 146; Epigraph: 35; Epilogue: 213, 215, 216; Glossary: 221, 222, 224; Thinker register: 230; Notes: 234, 235, 237, 238, 243, 244, 251; Reading recommendations: 252; Appendix: 265; Authorship account: 275
actualization	12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 46, 52, 69, 70, 72, 76, 95, 125, 126, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 145, 146, 147, 148; Epigraph: 35; Epilogue: 213; Glossary: 221, 224; Thinker register: 230; Notes: 235, 236, 237, 238, 244; Reading recommendations: 252; Appendix: 264, 265, 270, 271, 273
adaptive complexity	6, 47, 48, 49, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, 118, 125, 126, 127, 132, 133, 135, 136, 143, 144, 145, 152, 153, 203; Glossary: 222, 223; Thinker register: 229, 233; Notes: 239, 244; Appendix: 263, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 280, 282, 287
adaptivity	Notes: 241
affordances	42, 70, 85, 86, 89, 92, 93, 94, 95, 102, 103, 107, 109, 110, 113, 117, 174; Glossary: 223; Thinker register: 229; Notes: 241, 242, 245
agency	68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 163, 164, 174, 176, 181, 182, 191, 194, 206, 207, 209; Glossary: 225; Notes: 240, 241, 246, 247, 248
agency belongs to the assemblage	163, 164; Notes: 246
agential realism	Notes: 243
AI constitution for shared worlds	158, 159, 169, 199; Glossary: 226; Thinker register: 227; Notes: 249, 250; Appendix: 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289
akrasia	72; Notes: 240
allostasis	Notes: 240
animism	112; Notes: 242, 243
answerability	7, 36, 69, 71, 88, 90, 91, 102, 103, 113, 115, 124, 137, 139, 149, 151, 158, 159, 160, 162, 163, 164, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 176, 186, 187, 188, 192, 196, 197, 198, 199, 208, 209; Glossary: 225; Thinker register: 230; Notes: 246, 247, 248, 249; Reading recommendations: 253; Authorship account: 274, 275, 276; Appendix: 278, 280, 282, 286, 287, 289
Anthropocene	192
anti-entropy	Notes: 239, 241
anticipation	91, 92, 97, 98, 100, 101, 102, 103, 127, 207; Glossary: 223; Thinker register: 230, 232; Notes: 240, 242
anticipatory systems	92, 100, 101, 102; Thinker register: 232; Notes: 242
architectures of valuation	157, 158; Notes: 245, 246
archive intelligence	149, 150, 151, 152, 153; Notes: 245
archive success is not world success	149, 151, 160
artificial empathy	Notes: 245, 246
artificial intelligence	7, 89, 90, 91, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 169, 198, 199; Glossary: 224, 226; Thinker register: 227; Notes: 241, 245, 246, 249, 250; Appendix: 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 289; Reading recommendations: 253; Authorship account: 274, 275, 276
as-if body loop	79; Notes: 240
Asimov's hierarchy of laws	Thinker register: 227; Notes: 249, 250; Appendix: 277, 279, 280, 281, 282, 284, 285, 288
associated milieu / individual–milieu coupling	Glossary: 224
asymmetry from uneven impossibility	60; Notes: 239
attention	7, 15, 51, 69, 71, 81, 87, 99, 107, 111, 112, 128, 150, 153, 154, 161, 163, 167, 174, 175, 178, 182, 191, 192, 195, 204, 205, 206, 208, 209, 210, 211; Thinker register: 227; Notes: 243, 250
attention economy	167, 191, 192, 209
attunement	Appendix: 280
autocatalytic sets	46, 47; Thinker register: 230; Notes: 238
autonomy	159, 191; Appendix: 286
autopoiesis	82, 83, 84, 91, 115, 116, 117, 159; Thinker register: 230, 233; Notes: 241; Appendix: 286
background feeling	79; Notes: 240, 241
banality and normalization of evil	183
becoming	1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 34, 35, 36, 38, 40, 41, 42, 44, 47, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 68, 70, 72, 73, 75, 76, 83, 84, 89, 91, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 152, 154, 158, 171, 172, 174, 176, 177, 178, 179, 181, 182, 183, 185, 186, 191, 194, 198, 199, 200, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211; Epigraph: 9, 35, 43, 66, 118, 139, 216; Epilogue: 214, 216, 217; Glossary: 221, 222, 223, 224, 225; Thinker register: 227, 229, 233; Notes: 234, 235, 237, 238, 239, 243, 244, 245, 248, 249; Appendix: 266, 268, 269, 270, 271, 273, 279, 283, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289; Authorship account: 274, 275
biased reasoning	161; Notes: 246
bifurcation-point amplification	Notes: 238
biological normativity	77, 83, 84, 91, 179, 180; Notes: 241
biosemiotics	Notes: 243
blind variation and selective retention	Appendix: 268, 269
bodily spatialization	110
body schema	Notes: 242
body-scaled affordances	93, 94; Notes: 241
book as posthumous address	Notes: 251
book shaped like its own subject	Authorship account: 275
Born rule	30, 32, 33; Notes: 235, 236, 240
borrowed weighting	90, 157, 158, 161; Notes: 245, 246; Appendix: 289
bounded and open-ended evolutionary systems	Notes: 239
capability erosion	153, 154
capture of the conditions of judgment	153, 154, 163, 166, 168, 172, 183, 191, 192, 193, 198; Glossary: 225; Notes: 249; Appendix: 280, 281, 284
care	15, 62, 68, 69, 89, 106, 107, 113, 116, 117, 124, 145, 157, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 186, 187, 188, 196, 197, 206; Notes: 240, 247, 248; Appendix: 286
category theory	205; Notes: 250
causal efficacy of possibility	21, 22; Notes: 237
causality as constraint	141, 142
causation as transmitted organization	144, 180; Thinker register: 228; Notes: 244
center of concern	84, 115, 116
ceteris-paribus lawfulness	133; Thinker register: 228; Notes: 244
clinamen	55, 56; Thinker register: 230; Notes: 239
closed to efficient causation	82; Notes: 242
co-emergence of self and world	113, 124, 206
co-evolution of laws and reality	129, 132, 134; Glossary: 222, 224; Notes: 243, 244; Appendix: 270; Reading recommendations: 253
cogito and its variations	106, 108, 110; Thinker register: 228
cognition	84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 97, 100; Thinker register: 228, 230; Notes: 241; Reading recommendations: 253
combinatorial evolution of technology	51, 63; Notes: 239
compassion	79, 185
complementarity	29, 122, 129
compossibility	181, 182, 185, 191, 193, 199, 209; Glossary: 225; Thinker register: 230; Notes: 248, 249; Appendix: 279, 285, 289
compounding functionality	51, 63
conatus	55, 57, 61, 62, 68; Epigraph: 54; Thinker register: 232; Notes: 239, 240
conceptual drift	153, 154
conceptual metaphor	96; Thinker register: 230; Notes: 242, 250
concretization	Notes: 245
confirmation wave	28, 30, 32, 35, 36, 146; Notes: 235, 236, 238
consequence without stakes	161, 162, 163, 164; Appendix: 278, 286
consequence-correction	160, 161, 167, 168, 170; Appendix: 282, 286
consequential AI	152, 161, 162, 163, 164, 167; Notes: 249; Appendix: 278, 285
constitutional AI	Notes: 250
constitutional floor	Glossary: 226; Notes: 249, 250; Appendix: 277, 278, 285, 286, 288
constitutive relationality	10, 31, 122, 123
constraint	21, 22, 23, 34, 38, 39, 41, 44, 49, 50, 52, 58, 59, 64, 65, 66, 67, 71, 72, 93, 102, 110, 130, 132, 133, 134, 141, 142, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 174, 175, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 186, 189, 191, 192, 195, 199, 208; Glossary: 224, 225, 226; Thinker register: 231; Notes: 238, 239, 240, 244, 247, 249; Appendix: 271, 272, 273, 284, 285, 286, 289; Authorship account: 274, 275
constraint-retention	64, 132, 133; Appendix: 272
constraint-shaped probability landscape	21, 22, 70, 71
container picture	17, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 30, 33, 35, 40, 41, 96, 98, 120, 125, 172, 184, 185, 207, 208, 211; Epilogue: 213, 215, 216, 217; Thinker register: 231; Notes: 242, 250; Appendix: 264, 266, 267
contestability	167, 168, 183, 188, 192, 193, 197; Notes: 247; Appendix: 277, 279, 280, 281, 285, 287, 288, 289
contingency	48, 49, 53, 54, 209; Thinker register: 229; Notes: 239
continuity without denial of ending	210; Epilogue: 216; Notes: 251
control	69, 70, 71, 164, 187, 188, 198, 209, 210; Glossary: 225; Notes: 240, 246; Appendix: 283, 284, 285, 286, 288
control objection	70, 71; Notes: 240
convergent abduction	Appendix: 265
Copenhagen interpretation	27, 29, 30; Notes: 238
correction ladder	160
corrigibility	105, 113, 114, 115, 133, 134, 135, 151, 160, 168, 169, 170, 172, 173, 182, 183, 186, 189, 191, 193, 194, 195, 197, 198, 199, 207, 208, 209; Glossary: 224, 225, 226; Notes: 248, 249, 250; Appendix: 270, 277, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289
corrigible mediation	167, 168; Glossary: 224, 225; Appendix: 280, 281
cosmotechnics	Notes: 244, 245
creative advance	52; Epigraph: 43
creativity as Whiteheadian ultimate principle	52; Epigraph: 43; Notes: 239, 244
criterial standing	184, 185; Notes: 248
cultural evolution	50, 61, 62, 63
cumulative cultural evolution and ratchet effect	61, 62
cumulative retention effect	61, 62, 63
current AI without biological stakes	90, 157, 158, 159, 161; Glossary: 226; Notes: 241; Appendix: 278, 286
dappled world	133; Thinker register: 228; Notes: 244
decoherence as the cost of openness	26, 27; Notes: 236, 237
decoherence	26, 27; Notes: 236, 237
deep ecology	185; Thinker register: 231; Notes: 248
deep event schema	146, 147
delocalized AI embodiment	159, 161; Appendix: 286
dependent co-arising	206; Notes: 243
derivative information	Notes: 245
developmental bias	49
diachronic emergence	44, 45; Appendix: 268
diagnostic grammar for praxis	198
dialects of lawfulness	133; Thinker register: 228; Notes: 243, 244
differential replication of linguistic variants	50; Notes: 239
direct perception	94; Notes: 242
directional retention	127, 132, 197; Appendix: 272
directionality (irreversibility)	17, 33, 35, 37, 38, 39, 49, 53, 54, 64, 70, 72, 117, 118, 119, 124, 125, 126, 127, 129, 132, 135, 136, 143, 145, 146, 156, 160, 172, 175, 182, 187, 192, 193, 194, 197, 198, 208; Epilogue: 213; Glossary: 221, 222, 225; Thinker register: 228; Notes: 235, 236, 237, 238, 243, 248, 249; Reading recommendations: 253; Appendix: 265, 269, 270, 273, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 285, 287, 288
disciplined seeing	147
DisCoCat	205; Notes: 250
disindividuation	154; Notes: 245
disparation	23, 24; Notes: 244
dissipative adaptation	Notes: 239
dissipative individuation	Notes: 244, 245
dissipative structures	46, 47, 53; Thinker register: 231; Notes: 238
distributed responsibility	176, 187, 188, 198, 209; Notes: 249; Appendix: 278
domination	172, 174, 178, 182, 183, 191, 193; Glossary: 225; Notes: 249; Appendix: 280, 281, 285, 287, 288
double-slit experiment	19, 25; Notes: 235
dynamic constancy	144
dynamic resilience	56, 58; Notes: 239
ecological information	94
ecological psychology	93, 94; Thinker register: 229; Notes: 241, 242, 245
edibility	184; Notes: 243, 248
effective exit	167, 188; Glossary: 226; Appendix: 279, 281, 285, 287, 288
effectivity	Notes: 242
embodied constraint-enabled agency	66, 68, 69, 71, 72; Glossary: 223; Notes: 240
embodied constraint-enabled agent-originated freedom	66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72; Glossary: 223; Notes: 240
embodied knowledge	75, 78, 79, 81, 82, 84, 85, 88, 91, 92, 103, 105, 106, 107, 109, 113, 114, 115, 116; Glossary: 223; Thinker register: 228, 231
embodied organization	69, 91, 101, 156, 157, 159
embodied relational pattern	206
embodied scaffolding	85, 154
embodied temporal directionality	Notes: 242
embodiment	3, 7, 15, 21, 27, 66, 69, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 123, 124, 149, 151, 153, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 170, 178, 206, 207; Glossary: 223; Thinker register: 227, 229, 230; Notes: 240, 241, 242, 243, 245; Reading recommendations: 252; Authorship account: 275; Appendix: 278, 279, 286, 287, 289; Epigraph: 104
embodiment for AGI	91
emergence	30, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 50, 52, 53, 54, 63, 64, 67, 68, 70, 72, 118, 133, 134, 135, 136, 139, 141, 203, 205; Glossary: 222; Thinker register: 227; Notes: 236, 238, 239, 244; Reading recommendations: 252; Appendix: 268, 270, 283, 289; Authorship account: 275
emergent novelty	44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 63, 67, 68, 118, 135, 136; Glossary: 222; Notes: 238, 239; Appendix: 268, 270, 283, 289
emotion	78, 79, 80, 173; Thinker register: 228, 231; Notes: 247
emotion as action program	78
emotion–feeling distinction	78, 79; Thinker register: 228; Notes: 240, 241
empathy	79, 158, 173, 185; Notes: 240, 241, 245
empirical equivalence	34; Notes: 236
enabling work	210
enacted values	177, 178, 186; Notes: 247, 248
enaction	84, 85, 86, 88, 91, 105, 116, 117, 124; Glossary: 223; Thinker register: 233; Notes: 240, 241, 242, 247, 248; Reading recommendations: 253
enactive ecosophy	Notes: 247
enframing	155, 156; Notes: 245
engineered peace	189, 190, 191, 197; Thinker register: 231, 232; Notes: 248; Appendix: 284
entanglement	25, 26
entropy	64, 100; Notes: 244, 245
epistemic becoming	Thinker register: 232; Notes: 234
epistemic diffusion	197; Notes: 249
epistemic irreducibility	44
epistemic refusal	114, 147
ethics of becoming	169, 172, 173, 175, 176, 181, 182, 185, 191; Notes: 247, 248; Appendix: 279
ethics of design	165, 166, 173, 175, 176, 179, 180, 185, 186, 192, 198; Glossary: 225; Notes: 248, 249; Appendix: 278, 285
ethics of the conditions of ethics	195
events	1, 2, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 53, 67, 68, 70, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 133, 140, 142, 143, 145, 146, 207; Epilogue: 213, 214, 215; Glossary: 221; Thinker register: 230, 233; Notes: 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 243, 251; Reading recommendations: 252
everliving fire	1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 17, 18, 56, 61, 68, 76, 83, 89, 119, 121, 123, 136, 203, 204; Epigraph: 1; Epilogue: 214, 217; Glossary: 221; Thinker register: 229; Notes: 234, 235; Reading recommendations: 252
evolution	44, 47, 48, 49, 50, 97, 100, 126, 173; Thinker register: 230; Notes: 239, 245, 247
evolutionary convergence	48
evolutionary epistemology	Notes: 239, 245; Appendix: 269
evolutionary variation	47, 48, 49, 63
evolved moral capacities	173; Notes: 247, 248
exaptation	48, 51, 54, 97; Notes: 239
explainable AI	167, 168
extended criticality	Notes: 241
extended evolutionary synthesis	Notes: 239
external memory	61, 62, 63, 89, 90, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 169; Notes: 240, 244, 245; Appendix: 278; Authorship account: 274, 275
extrabiological inheritance	50, 63, 175; Notes: 239
fairness	172, 173, 177, 182, 186, 188
fallacy of misplaced concreteness	12, 39, 150, 153, 160, 168, 170, 207; Thinker register: 233; Appendix: 266
fallibility	99, 102, 103, 107, 208
feeling	7, 24, 73, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 107, 116, 117, 139, 157, 158, 173, 175, 185, 204; Thinker register: 228; Notes: 240, 241, 245, 246, 247, 248; Appendix: 280
field of potential	14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 22, 23, 27, 28, 30, 34, 36, 37, 40, 140, 141, 145; Epilogue: 216; Thinker register: 232; Notes: 235, 244; Appendix: 265, 273
field of sense	Epilogue: 215; Thinker register: 229; Notes: 251
flesh	110, 111, 112, 113, 117; Thinker register: 231; Notes: 242; Reading recommendations: 252
foreclosure	158, 172, 174, 175, 176, 181, 182, 183, 185, 186, 191, 193, 195, 196, 197, 208, 209; Glossary: 225; Notes: 248; Appendix: 279, 281
forgiveness	125, 194, 195; Thinker register: 227; Notes: 249
form-taking	137, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 145, 146, 147, 148; Glossary: 224; Notes: 244; Appendix: 263, 271, 272
formative friction	154, 165, 166, 167
four-dimensional block	38, 39, 40; Thinker register: 228; Notes: 238
frame	97, 153, 154
free will theorem	Notes: 240
free-energy principle	Notes: 242
freedom	6, 7, 22, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 178, 194; Glossary: 223, 224; Notes: 240
function	56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 63, 64, 100, 115, 152, 153, 178; Glossary: 223; Notes: 239; Appendix: 271, 272, 273
functional information	59, 60, 144; Glossary: 223; Notes: 239, 244; Appendix: 263, 271, 272, 273
functional-information arrow	Appendix: 271, 272
future as stakeholder	182, 192, 197; Notes: 249; Appendix: 279
future responsibility without longtermism	197; Notes: 249; Appendix: 279
futurity under constraint	92, 93, 97, 101, 102, 103
gedankenexperiment	30, 31, 32, 33, 34; Thinker register: 232; Notes: 235, 236, 239, 245
general novelty engine	58, 59, 60; Appendix: 268, 269
generalizable constraint regime	191; Glossary: 225
generative constraint	44, 45, 49, 69, 174; Glossary: 224; Notes: 240
generative hierarchy	99
generative realism	5, 6, 16, 17, 19, 22, 34, 36, 41, 64, 72, 73, 76, 113, 115, 135; Glossary: 221; Notes: 234, 250
genetic code	54, 58
grammar	5, 7, 10, 23, 34, 41, 50, 52, 60, 72, 89, 92, 96, 97, 102, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 123, 129, 134, 135, 136, 137, 139, 145, 146, 147, 148, 171, 174, 193, 203, 205, 206; Glossary: 222; Notes: 234, 245, 250; Reading recommendations: 252; Appendix: 268, 270; Authorship account: 275
grammatical aspect	97
growing universe	37, 39, 146; Glossary: 221, 222; Notes: 237, 238, 244
hard problem of consciousness	87, 88; Notes: 241
Hermitian adjoint	Notes: 235
heterochrony	127, 128, 129
hidden body of AI	155, 156, 159, 169
historical stabilization	132, 133, 134
historical universe	129, 132, 133, 134; Notes: 243, 244
holon	16, 204, 205; Glossary: 225
homeostasis	56, 76, 77, 120; Notes: 240, 241, 245
homeostatic feelings	77, 79, 81, 158; Thinker register: 228; Notes: 240, 241
homology	30, 34, 36, 37; Notes: 238
homunculus	68, 69, 75, 88, 99, 116, 117
human creativity	50, 51, 52; Notes: 239
human measure	161, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170; Notes: 246, 247
Hume’s gap (is–ought)	179, 180
hylomorphism	140, 141; Notes: 244
hyperobjects	Notes: 249, 251
I can	7, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 116, 156, 178; Glossary: 223; Thinker register: 228, 231; Notes: 242, 245; Reading recommendations: 252
identity	1, 2, 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25, 60, 61, 62, 68, 69, 72, 73, 75, 76, 83, 89, 104, 105, 112, 116, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 126, 127, 129, 136, 176, 204, 205, 206, 209, 210, 211; Epilogue: 213, 214, 217; Glossary: 223; Notes: 243, 248, 251; Appendix: 266; Epigraph: 9
illusion problem	Notes: 241
illusionism	Notes: 241
image schemas	207; Notes: 242, 250
impermanence	14, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 129, 135, 136, 198, 206, 209; Glossary: 222; Notes: 243; Appendix: 269, 270, 282; Epigraph: 9
implicit relational knowledge	206
in-formation	139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 145, 146, 147, 148, 172, 199; Glossary: 224; Notes: 244; Appendix: 263, 271, 272, 273
incompleteness result	Appendix: 266, 267
indefinite extensibility	Appendix: 266, 267
individuation	14, 15, 22, 23, 24, 34, 36, 37, 140, 141, 142, 143, 154, 206; Thinker register: 232; Notes: 235, 238, 241, 243, 244, 245, 247, 249; Reading recommendations: 253
inexhaustibility	112, 113, 114
information	62, 66, 78, 79, 88, 99, 104, 116, 140, 155, 165, 167, 168, 181, 206; Notes: 249
infraethical design constraints	Appendix: 281
infraethics	Notes: 249
infrastructural functions	152, 153, 154, 155, 164, 180, 190, 195, 196; Appendix: 283, 284
inherited openness	42, 46, 49, 69; Glossary: 222; Notes: 237, 238, 240
integrated information theory (IIT)	Notes: 240
intelligence as sense-making	84; Notes: 241
intentional arc	Notes: 242
interbeing	206; Thinker register: 232
intercorporeality	Notes: 242
interdependence	31, 49, 116, 117, 119, 122, 123, 124, 129, 135, 136, 183, 193, 198, 206, 209, 210; Glossary: 222, 226; Thinker register: 229; Appendix: 269, 270, 280, 283
interoception	Notes: 240, 241
intersubjectivity	206
invariant null interval	33
irreversible harm	160, 172, 183, 193, 195, 196; Glossary: 225; Notes: 249; Appendix: 280, 281, 283, 284, 285
jagged intelligence	151; Notes: 245
judgment	72, 80, 81, 105, 150, 153, 154, 160, 164, 165, 166, 169, 170, 173, 175, 178, 186, 187, 193, 198, 209; Glossary: 224, 225; Notes: 243, 246, 248, 249; Appendix: 278, 280, 281, 283, 284, 286, 288, 289; Authorship account: 274, 275, 276
kept difference	55, 63, 64, 133, 143, 144, 145, 146, 148; Glossary: 222
knitting	33, 39, 146; Glossary: 222; Notes: 237, 238, 244
language	6, 7, 10, 14, 28, 50, 51, 52, 53, 61, 66, 72, 88, 89, 90, 92, 95, 96, 97, 99, 101, 102, 118, 119, 120, 123, 129, 134, 135, 136, 145, 149, 151, 152, 153, 174, 180, 205, 210; Glossary: 224, 226; Thinker register: 227, 231; Notes: 239, 250; Appendix: 271
law of increasing functional information	57, 59, 60, 144; Glossary: 223; Thinker register: 229, 233; Notes: 239, 244, 245; Appendix: 263, 271, 272, 273
lawfulness	3, 5, 7, 17, 28, 65, 67, 68, 86, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 144, 148, 180, 194, 198, 207; Glossary: 222, 223, 224; Thinker register: 228, 231; Notes: 243, 244; Reading recommendations: 253; Appendix: 269, 270, 273, 283; Epigraph: 130
layered historical actuality	125, 126; Glossary: 221, 222; Thinker register: 229; Notes: 243
left wall	60; Notes: 239
leverage	185, 196, 197, 198, 209
libertarian free will	70, 71; Notes: 240
life	7, 13, 15, 16, 43, 44, 46, 47, 50, 52, 53, 56, 58, 60, 64, 76, 77, 78, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, 91, 92, 93, 100, 101, 102, 103, 105, 107, 115, 116, 117, 120, 123, 124, 128, 133, 139, 143, 144, 145, 146, 157, 159, 177, 179, 191, 205, 210; Glossary: 223; Thinker register: 230, 231, 232, 233; Notes: 239, 241, 242, 244; Appendix: 270, 272, 286; Reading recommendations: 253
life–mind continuity thesis	Notes: 240, 241
LIFI+	Appendix: 273
lived body	108, 109, 110, 117; Thinker register: 231; Notes: 242; Epigraph: 104
longtermism	197; Notes: 249; Appendix: 279
luck objection	67, 68, 69, 70, 71; Notes: 240
lure	153, 154; Thinker register: 232; Notes: 246; Appendix: 281
many-worlds interpretation	29, 30; Notes: 240
Markov blanket	Notes: 242
mass is not in spacetime	Notes: 237
maximal grip	Notes: 242
measurement problem	29, 30, 34, 35
memory	13, 17, 33, 56, 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 68, 71, 75, 80, 106, 109, 118, 121, 125, 126, 133, 136, 137, 144, 152, 153, 154, 163, 189, 195, 203, 204, 209; Glossary: 223; Notes: 245, 250; Appendix: 266, 268
memory of becoming	65, 130, 132, 133, 134, 136, 137; Appendix: 272
merely conceivable	Epilogue: 215; Notes: 237, 251
meshwork	123, 124, 206, 207, 209, 210; Glossary: 226; Thinker register: 230
meta-law	129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 148, 198; Glossary: 222, 224; Thinker register: 231; Notes: 243, 244, 245; Reading recommendations: 253; Appendix: 269, 270, 283; Epigraph: 130
meta-problem of consciousness	Notes: 241
metabolism	13, 43, 44, 58, 76, 100, 123, 128, 133, 145, 155, 159
metaphor	85, 95, 96, 97; Thinker register: 230, 231; Notes: 234, 242, 245, 250
metaphor as infrastructure	153; Notes: 242
metastability	14, 15, 22, 23, 24, 34, 52, 69, 89, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 145, 146, 147, 148, 173; Glossary: 222, 224; Thinker register: 232; Notes: 235, 244, 245; Appendix: 273; Authorship account: 275
milieu	88, 124, 137, 146, 149, 150, 153, 165, 169, 175, 199; Glossary: 224; Thinker register: 231, 232; Notes: 245, 246, 247; Authorship account: 275, 276; Appendix: 288, 289
mineral evolution	57, 58, 59, 60; Thinker register: 229; Notes: 239
model collapse	151, 152; Notes: 245
model-in-a-world	152, 163, 164
modeling relation	100, 101; Notes: 242
moral architecture	176, 180
moral attunement	Appendix: 280
moral circle	184, 185; Notes: 248
moral ecology	174, 176, 177
moral error	176, 177, 178, 179
moral goods as ecological regularities	177; Notes: 247, 248
moral learning	177, 178, 179, 184
moral umwelt	174
moral underdetermination of relation	124, 181, 183; Notes: 248
more-than-human patients	Notes: 248
multi-speed history	128, 198
murmuration	1, 2, 7, 10, 32, 136, 139, 203, 208, 210, 211; Epilogue: 213; Glossary: 222, 225; Thinker register: 228; Notes: 234, 250, 251
mutual specification	86
natural selection	21, 46, 47, 48, 60; Notes: 239; Appendix: 272
neural Darwinism (theory of neuronal group selection)	Notes: 240
neural theory of meaning	97; Thinker register: 231; Notes: 242
niche construction	86
no-world ontology	Epilogue: 215; Thinker register: 229; Notes: 251; Appendix: 264, 266, 267
nomological machines	Notes: 244
non-coincidence	111, 112, 113; Notes: 242
noumenal	40; Thinker register: 230; Notes: 235
objective statistical ontology	Notes: 239
objectivity	6, 59, 60, 94, 106, 108, 113, 114, 115, 208; Thinker register: 231; Notes: 234, 237, 240
offer wave	28, 30, 32, 35, 36, 146; Notes: 235, 236
ontic indeterminacy	32, 68; Appendix: 268; Thinker register: 227
ontic structural realism	204, 211
ontogenesis	22, 23, 146; Epigraph: 139
ontological irreducibility	44, 45; Appendix: 268
ontological memory	61, 133
ontology of the between	124; Thinker register: 227; Notes: 243
open generative order	133, 136
operating conditions of becoming	118, 119, 120, 129, 135; Appendix: 268, 269
operationally closed	82, 159
option value	197; Notes: 249
orchestrated technē	Notes: 234; Authorship account: 274, 275, 276
order for free	46, 47, 50; Thinker register: 230; Notes: 238
organismic poetics	115, 116; Thinker register: 233; Notes: 242, 243
organism–environment transaction	206
organization	7, 15, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 58, 59, 60, 63, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 82, 84, 90, 91, 100, 101, 102, 107, 119, 120, 122, 125, 133, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 151, 155, 156, 157, 158, 164, 171, 173, 174, 175, 180, 187, 189, 190, 195, 196, 203, 205, 207, 208; Glossary: 222, 224; Thinker register: 228, 230, 232, 233; Notes: 238, 241, 242, 244, 247; Appendix: 263, 286, 287
organizational directedness	116
organizational retention	13, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 68, 69, 122, 125, 126, 143, 144; Appendix: 263, 268, 269, 272
organology	Notes: 245
origin-of-life transition	44, 45, 46, 47; Appendix: 270
other-regard functions	158; Notes: 245, 246; Appendix: 286, 287
panpsychism	112; Notes: 242
participation	32, 112, 164, 171, 178, 182, 184, 191, 193, 194, 199, 208, 210; Glossary: 225; Thinker register: 227; Notes: 236, 242, 243, 247, 248; Appendix: 279
perception	21, 85, 86, 88, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 99, 103, 104, 105, 107, 111, 112, 113, 145, 175; Glossary: 223; Thinker register: 227, 229; Notes: 241, 242, 243; Appendix: 280, 289
perception–action coupling	94, 108, 109; Notes: 243
persistence	9, 12, 13, 18, 22, 43, 46, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 68, 76, 82, 83, 118, 119, 121, 122, 125, 126, 129, 133, 140, 143, 144, 145, 148, 157, 159, 172, 174, 185, 205; Thinker register: 232; Notes: 239, 240; Appendix: 270, 271, 272, 273, 282, 286, 287, 288
perspectival knowledge	106, 113, 114, 115
physical vacuum	Notes: 251; Appendix: 265
pidgin-to-creole emergence	Notes: 239
plan bipartite	Authorship account: 274, 275
pluralistic constraint on homology	34, 37; Notes: 245
plurality as structural condition	195
poiesis	115, 116; Thinker register: 233; Notes: 243; Epigraph: 149
polyphasic being	15
polytemporality	127, 128
possible, the (real possibility)	3, 5, 6, 7, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 76, 85, 86, 92, 93, 94, 95, 102, 103, 117, 118, 123, 125, 126, 127, 132, 133, 137, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 145, 146, 147, 148, 153, 154, 157, 171, 174, 175, 182, 183, 188, 191, 193, 195, 197, 199, 203, 204, 205, 207, 208; Epigraph: 19, 35, 66, 213; Epilogue: 213, 215, 216; Glossary: 221, 222, 223, 224, 225; Thinker register: 227, 229, 230; Notes: 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 240, 242, 244, 248, 249, 251; Reading recommendations: 252; Appendix: 263, 264, 265, 268, 270, 271, 272, 273, 279, 282, 283, 284, 285, 289; Authorship account: 274, 275
potentia	20, 28, 29, 31, 34, 35, 38; Thinker register: 227, 229; Notes: 235, 237, 244; Appendix: 273
power	16, 62, 63, 72, 110, 148, 153, 154, 164, 165, 174, 176, 182, 183, 187, 188, 190, 191, 193, 194, 195, 197, 205, 208, 209; Epigraph: 54; Glossary: 225, 226; Notes: 248; Appendix: 278, 280, 281, 283, 284, 285, 286
power-law distribution	51; Thinker register: 233; Notes: 239
practical power to object	112, 113, 114
praxis triage	195, 196
praxis	172, 187, 188, 194, 199; Notes: 247, 248
precarious	77, 82, 83, 84, 89, 91, 116, 136, 139, 143, 147; Appendix: 269, 270
predetermination	27, 49, 53, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 102, 103, 125; Glossary: 222; Notes: 240; Appendix: 268, 270; Thinker register: 230
predictive coding	99
predictive processing	98, 99, 100; Thinker register: 228; Notes: 242
predictive theory	92, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103; Notes: 242
preferential attachment	51
preindividual	14, 15, 22, 23, 24, 36, 37, 140, 141; Thinker register: 232; Notes: 235, 244
present, the	11, 17, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 66, 72, 76, 91, 92, 95, 98, 101, 125, 126; Glossary: 221; Thinker register: 230, 232; Notes: 237, 238, 242, 243, 244
primary metaphor	96
primordial feeling	79
process philosophy	121, 122; Thinker register: 227, 233; Notes: 239, 243
productive band of bounded openness	42; Appendix: 268
productive indeterminacy	6, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 32, 42, 43, 45, 67, 69, 76, 118, 132, 135, 136, 141, 209; Glossary: 222; Appendix: 268, 270, 279, 289
productive temporal misfit	128
promise	190, 195, 204; Thinker register: 227; Notes: 249
propensity	31, 59, 60, 135; Epigraph: 66; Thinker register: 231; Notes: 239, 240
propensity to persist	55, 56, 58, 59; Notes: 239
prospective control	94; Notes: 242
pseudotime	Notes: 236
psychic and collective individuation	Notes: 249
punctuated equilibrium	48; Thinker register: 228, 229; Notes: 239
qualia structure	Notes: 241
quantum field theory	Notes: 236
quantum indistinguishability	25; Epilogue: 214; Thinker register: 233
quantum nonlocality	25, 26
quantum substratum	35, 36, 37, 38, 41, 126; Epilogue: 216; Notes: 236, 237, 244, 251; Appendix: 265
quantum superposition	25, 33, 34; Notes: 237
quantum transaction	28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 126; Notes: 235, 236, 237, 244
real goods	171, 172, 173, 174, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 185, 186, 191, 194, 195, 197, 208, 209; Glossary: 225; Thinker register: 228; Notes: 247, 248; Appendix: 279, 282, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289
real patterns	203, 204
realism	5, 6, 9, 16, 17, 18, 84, 86, 88, 93, 94, 95, 102, 103, 106, 107, 110, 112, 113, 114, 115, 151, 156, 160, 169, 170; Glossary: 221; Notes: 234
realism of freedom	178, 194
reason	30, 32, 34, 68, 69, 70, 71, 80, 81, 85, 96, 108, 115, 131, 132, 157, 161, 168, 181, 187; Epigraph: 75; Thinker register: 230; Notes: 245, 246, 249; Appendix: 266, 281, 284, 287, 288
reciprocal causation	86
reciprocity as exposure	184; Notes: 243
reclaiming	195; Thinker register: 232; Notes: 250
reconstruction	195, 196; Notes: 248, 249, 250; Appendix: 281, 283
reef-scale AI system	159; Appendix: 286
reflexivity	134, 135; Appendix: 283, 284; Authorship account: 275
regime of correction	160
regime-centered explanation	162, 163, 167, 168; Appendix: 280
regime-scaled universality	191
regime	44, 45, 50, 52, 130, 132, 133, 134, 144, 149, 150, 152, 153, 154, 163, 164, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 209; Glossary: 224, 225, 226; Thinker register: 227, 228, 231; Notes: 244, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250; Authorship account: 275; Appendix: 271, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289
reiteration	58, 60, 63, 67, 146, 147; Appendix: 272
relation	1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 40, 41, 45, 50, 59, 85, 86, 89, 90, 93, 94, 95, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, 118, 122, 123, 124, 129, 136, 152, 155, 156, 173, 176, 181, 182, 183, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211; Glossary: 222, 224, 225, 226; Thinker register: 227, 232; Notes: 243, 247, 248, 250; Reading recommendations: 253; Appendix: 269
relational knowledge	107, 207, 208; Notes: 234
relational normativity	178, 181
relational persistence	14, 116, 122, 204, 206
relational personhood	208
relational quantum mechanics	207; Thinker register: 232
relational realism	93, 94, 95
relational self	130, 204, 206, 207, 209, 210; Glossary: 226; Epilogue: 214
relations relate relations	16, 28, 124, 203, 204, 205, 208, 211; Epigraph: 203; Glossary: 225; Thinker register: 229; Notes: 243, 250; Reading recommendations: 253
relativistic transactional interpretation	28, 29, 30, 34; Thinker register: 230; Notes: 235, 236, 238, 240, 244
repair	66, 125, 172, 173, 175, 177, 180, 181, 182, 183, 186, 187, 188, 193, 195, 196, 197, 206, 210; Glossary: 225; Appendix: 279, 281, 283
representation	89, 90, 91, 105, 108, 113, 150, 151, 156, 160, 161, 168, 169, 207; Notes: 245
reproduction	46, 55, 58, 60, 61, 62, 115, 128, 180
resolution	12, 14, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 46, 52, 60, 68, 69, 71, 95, 139, 140, 141, 142, 145, 146, 147, 173; Glossary: 224; Notes: 235, 238; Appendix: 264, 273
resonance	34, 36; Notes: 238
responsibility architecture	187, 188; Appendix: 278
responsibility	7, 69, 71, 102, 124, 137, 149, 159, 160, 162, 163, 164, 168, 169, 170, 172, 176, 186, 187, 188, 192, 196, 197, 198, 199, 208, 209; Glossary: 225; Thinker register: 230; Notes: 246, 247, 248, 249; Appendix: 278, 280, 282, 286, 287, 289; Authorship account: 274, 275, 276
responsiveness across unequal timescales	175, 196, 198
retention and protention	98; Notes: 242
retentive stabilization	68, 72, 75, 176, 204; Glossary: 223
retrocausality	Notes: 235, 238
reversibility, chiasm and écart	112, 206; Notes: 242, 243, 250; Reading recommendations: 252
reversible correction	Appendix: 286, 287, 288
rhythmic metastability	128
Riedlian burden	49, 50; Notes: 239, 245
rights-by-property	184, 185; Notes: 248
scale equivalence	30, 36, 37, 59, 60, 145, 146, 147; Notes: 239, 245; Appendix: 272
scale invariance	146; Notes: 245; Appendix: 272
science	6, 29, 67, 68, 119, 120, 135; Thinker register: 232; Notes: 234, 242
score becomes the gate	162, 163, 181, 188, 189, 190, 191, 197; Notes: 248
sea, crest, wake	11, 17, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 72, 76, 179; Epilogue: 213, 216; Glossary: 221, 222; Thinker register: 230; Notes: 234, 238; Appendix: 265
second law of thermodynamics	64; Notes: 243
selection	21, 34, 38, 46, 47, 48, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 63, 64, 67, 69, 81, 97, 125, 133, 135, 136, 144, 152, 153, 159, 165, 175, 176, 180, 181, 188, 192; Glossary: 223; Notes: 239, 240, 244, 245; Appendix: 263, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 282, 286
selection environments	160
self, the, as achieved continuity	15, 24, 46, 62, 64, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 77, 81, 82, 83, 84, 89, 90, 91, 103, 105, 108, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 117, 118, 121, 123, 124, 126, 130, 136, 145, 158, 159, 163, 176, 185, 204, 205, 206, 207, 209, 210, 211; Epilogue: 213, 214, 217; Glossary: 221, 223, 226; Thinker register: 231; Notes: 240, 241, 248, 251; Reading recommendations: 252; Appendix: 266, 267, 287
self-aware cultural evolution	63
self-maintenance threshold for stakes	82, 84, 90, 101, 158, 159; Notes: 241, 242, 245, 246; Appendix: 286, 287
self-modifying systems	Notes: 242
self-organization	1, 32, 45, 46, 47, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 130, 132, 133, 136, 139, 141, 143, 203, 208, 211; Glossary: 222; Thinker register: 230, 233; Notes: 238; Reading recommendations: 252; Appendix: 270
self-recognition	104, 105; Notes: 243
sense-making	83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 116, 124, 182, 192; Glossary: 223
sensorimotor organization	Notes: 241
sequential circuit (X-net)	97
serendipitous innovation	51; Thinker register: 229; Notes: 239
shared and plural control	Appendix: 283, 284, 285, 286
situatedness	93, 94, 106, 107, 110, 114, 115; Thinker register: 232; Notes: 243
social inheritance	61, 62, 63
society of occasions	12, 122
somatic map	78; Notes: 240
somatic marker	80, 81, 157; Thinker register: 228; Notes: 240, 245
somatic marker hypothesis	79, 80, 81; Thinker register: 228; Notes: 240, 245
spacetime	30, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41; Notes: 235, 236, 237, 238, 244; Appendix: 265; Reading recommendations: 252
speciesism	184; Thinker register: 232; Notes: 248
spontaneous symmetry-breaking	133, 134; Notes: 244
stability	50, 55, 56, 57, 83, 89, 119, 120, 144, 145, 193, 194; Notes: 239
stakes	16, 77, 78, 81, 83, 86, 90, 91, 157, 158, 159, 161, 167, 169, 180, 183, 199; Glossary: 226; Notes: 241, 245, 246; Appendix: 278, 279, 280, 282, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289
standing-reserve	155, 156; Notes: 245
stochastic parrot	150, 151; Notes: 245
striving-value	179, 180, 185
structurally coupled	86, 88, 107; Notes: 241
structured openness	23, 36, 37, 141, 142, 146; Glossary: 224
subjects-of-a-life	184, 185; Thinker register: 231; Notes: 248
superconductivity	45
surplus of signification	116; Thinker register: 233
symbolic simulation of possible futures	101, 102
synchronic emergence	44, 45
system-level bureaucracy	166; Notes: 246, 247
tau (optical time-to-contact invariant)	94; Notes: 242
technical ensemble	152, 163, 164; Notes: 246
technical individuation	Notes: 244, 245
technicity	155; Notes: 245
technē	149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 199; Appendix: 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289; Notes: 234, 244, 245, 247; Authorship account: 275, 276
temporal disparity	119, 127, 128, 129, 135, 136, 145, 156, 171, 175, 192, 195, 196, 208, 209; Glossary: 222, 226; Notes: 248, 249; Appendix: 269, 270, 282, 283, 285
temporal naturalism	38; Thinker register: 232; Notes: 238
tertiary retention	62; Notes: 244, 245
the adjacent possible	47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 63, 127; Glossary: 222, 223; Thinker register: 230; Notes: 238
the human is not the innocent baseline	164, 165, 166; Notes: 246, 247
the laws of change	7, 23, 42, 43, 64, 66, 68, 69, 70, 118, 119, 129, 132, 134, 135, 136, 148, 171, 175, 180, 186, 193, 198, 199, 203; Glossary: 222, 224; Notes: 234, 243, 245, 248, 249, 250; Appendix: 263, 268, 269, 270, 277, 280, 289
the measurable standing in for the real	168, 169, 170; Notes: 247; Appendix: 282, 285
the real as resistance	9, 110, 112, 113, 114, 115, 149, 151, 154, 156, 208; Glossary: 221; Notes: 234
the Sun is not a metric	170; Appendix: 282
the transindividual	Notes: 244, 247, 249
theōrein	Notes: 247
threshold	43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 52, 53, 54, 63, 64, 69, 76, 89, 117, 128, 145, 157, 158, 161, 182, 192, 198; Glossary: 222, 225; Thinker register: 228; Notes: 238, 245, 249; Appendix: 270
time	2, 9, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 48, 50, 68, 69, 72, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 100, 101, 102, 103, 110, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 135, 136, 143, 156, 171, 173, 175, 177, 182, 192, 195, 196, 197, 198, 205, 207, 208, 209, 211; Epigraph: 35; Epilogue: 213, 214; Glossary: 221, 222, 224; Thinker register: 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233; Notes: 235, 236, 237, 238, 242, 243, 244, 248, 249, 251; Reading recommendations: 252, 253; Appendix: 269, 270, 278, 279, 282, 283, 285, 288
time symmetry	38, 126; Thinker register: 228, 229, 233; Notes: 235, 238
time-to-contact	94; Notes: 242
timeless naturalism	38; Notes: 238
tool to milieu to regime	149, 150, 153, 163, 167, 199; Glossary: 224; Thinker register: 231; Appendix: 280
top-down constraint	49, 50
trans-disciplinary synthesis	36, 37
transactional interpretation (TI)	35, 36; Thinker register: 228; Notes: 235, 236
transduction	15, 23, 24, 142, 143; Thinker register: 232; Notes: 234, 244, 245; Authorship account: 275, 276
triage	193, 195, 196; Notes: 249; Appendix: 281, 283
trivial versus ontological possibility	21, 22; Notes: 237
trust	150, 161, 162, 163, 164, 167, 168, 172, 175, 177, 179, 181, 182, 186, 191, 192, 195, 206, 208, 209; Notes: 250; Appendix: 278, 282
truthmaker requirement	Appendix: 263, 264
umwelt	84, 85, 86, 88; Thinker register: 232; Notes: 241
uncertainty–indeterminacy distinction	23; Thinker register: 227
understanding	7, 62, 89, 90, 91, 149, 156, 161, 208; Notes: 241; Reading recommendations: 253
universal common descent	54
universalizability — viability of common architectures	190, 191, 192, 197; Glossary: 225; Notes: 248
value	16, 71, 72, 77, 80, 83, 84, 89, 90, 145, 157, 158, 169, 170, 177, 178, 179, 180, 185, 186, 194, 197, 199, 210; Glossary: 223; Notes: 240, 242, 247, 248, 249, 250; Appendix: 278, 284, 286
value continuity	77, 157
variational free energy	Notes: 242
viability	13, 77, 83, 84, 90, 92, 100, 101, 102, 143, 144, 158, 159, 185; Notes: 240, 241, 248; Appendix: 286, 287, 288
viability–measure distinction	Appendix: 287, 288
viable agency	181, 182, 191, 193, 194, 209; Glossary: 225; Appendix: 279
view from nowhere	106, 107, 114, 115; Epilogue: 215; Thinker register: 229; Appendix: 266
vulnerability	16, 84, 112, 115, 157, 158, 159, 181, 182, 183, 186, 188, 208; Glossary: 223; Notes: 243, 245, 246; Reading recommendations: 253
warrant	Appendix: 279, 281, 283, 284, 286, 287, 288
wavefunction collapse	28, 29, 33, 34, 35
wave–particle duality	19
weak emergence	44
weak novelty	44
wonder without credulity	36, 37
working model	92, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103; Notes: 242
world-coupling under consequence	90, 91, 149, 151, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 169; Notes: 241, 245, 246
world-ending as uprooted way of life	Epilogue: 217; Notes: 251
world-making	91, 139, 148, 150, 152, 171, 172, 176, 186, 188, 190, 191, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 208; Glossary: 225, 226; Notes: 247, 249, 250; Appendix: 277, 279, 289
world-making imperative	158, 169, 172, 173, 180, 181, 182, 183, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 208, 209, 210; Epigraph: 187; Glossary: 225, 226; Thinker register: 230, 231; Notes: 248, 249, 250; Reading recommendations: 253; Appendix: 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289
worldhood	104, 105, 106; Thinker register: 232; Notes: 243
writing	50, 61, 62, 123, 137, 153, 154; Notes: 240; Authorship account: 274, 276
zero-force evolutionary law	Notes: 239
Zipf’s law	51; Thinker register: 233; Notes: 239
élan vital	Notes: 239