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ConceptPages and other locators
absolute absence108, 109, 156, 157
absorber theory and quantum direct-action theory169, 173
abstraction99, 100, 102, 105, 154, 155, 156; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16; Literary application: 131; Reproduced historical essay: 191, 196, 198
active archive104
active threshold boundary98, 161
actual, the32, 57, 90, 91, 92, 100, 101, 102, 106, 122, 126, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 153, 158, 159, 160, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 173, 174, 184; Notes: 41; Literary application: 47, 49, 51
actualization33, 34, 35, 39, 57, 90, 91, 92, 93, 101, 102, 103, 116, 117, 118, 120, 121, 122, 126, 127, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 154, 159, 160, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 173, 174, 181; Notes: 41; Literary application: 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52
actualization as lawful selection under constraint165, 166, 168, 169
actualization functor148, 149, 150, 159, 165, 166, 168, 173
adaptive complexity34, 35, 93, 95, 102, 103, 106, 148, 151, 166
adaptivityReproduced AI exchange: 15
adhesive non-collapse175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181
affordances36, 98, 146, 147, 153; Reproduced AI exchange: 16, 17, 18
agency37, 95, 105, 142, 151, 152; Reproduced AI exchange: 17; Literary application: 129
AI alignment as co-evolutionReproduced AI exchange: 18; Literary application: 133
AI as neighborReproduced AI exchange: 18; Literary application: 132, 133, 134
AI constitution for shared worlds37, 63, 64, 65, 180
animalizing imaginationReproduced historical essay: 198, 199
answerability33, 36, 37, 38, 39, 63, 64, 65, 96, 104, 105, 106, 107, 127, 156; Reproduced AI exchange: 18; Reproduced historical essay: 201
anticipation33, 36, 97; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16, 17
anticipatory systemsReproduced AI exchange: 15, 16
anxiety117, 118, 119; Epigraph: 114
architectures of valuation37, 64, 104, 155
archive intelligence104, 147, 148, 155
archive success is not world success104, 155, 156
artificial intelligence37, 56, 62, 63, 64, 65, 104, 127, 142, 147, 148, 155, 180; Reproduced AI exchange: 14, 15, 16, 17, 18; Literary application: 128, 129, 130, 131, 133, 134
Asimov's hierarchy of laws62, 63, 64, 65
associated milieu / individual–milieu coupling120, 121
attention36, 37, 38, 39, 103, 106, 120; Literary application: 69; Reproduced historical essay: 196, 198
autonomy37, 97; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 17, 18; Literary application: 132; Reproduced historical essay: 201
autopoiesis37, 97, 152, 155, 162; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16, 17
banality and normalization of evil140
becoming9, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 59, 64, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 126, 127, 143, 146, 147, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 162, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 184; Reproduced AI exchange: 16, 17, 18; Literary application: 26, 43, 46, 47, 51, 52, 72, 76; Epigraph: 112; Reproduced historical essay: 202, 204
being from the shore119, 121, 122, 123; Literary application: 43, 50, 51
biological normativity36, 97, 152
biosemioticsLiterary application: 71; Reproduced historical essay: 194
bodily spatialization98
body is memory101; Reproduced historical essay: 194, 195
body schema98
book as posthumous address1, 2, 83
book shaped like its own subject87, 102, 126, 127, 158
Born rule148, 149, 150, 160, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174
Born-weight normalization169, 171, 172, 173, 174
borrowed weighting37, 64, 104, 147, 148, 155
bounded and open-ended evolutionary systems151
capability erosionLiterary application: 130, 131
capture of the conditions of judgment38, 64, 65, 105, 106, 143, 155, 156, 175, 178, 179, 180, 181
care33, 34, 39, 64, 82, 83, 105, 119, 141; Literary application: 73, 74, 131
categorical colimit146, 147, 150, 151, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 164, 165, 166, 167, 175, 176, 177, 179, 180, 181, 184
category theory146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 169, 170, 171, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 180, 182, 184, 185
Celestial Emporium classificationLiterary application: 88
closed to efficient causationReproduced AI exchange: 16
co-emergence of self and world98
co-evolution of laws and reality101, 184
cogito and its variations4, 5, 6, 99
cogito ergo boom6
cognition82, 102, 127; Reproduced AI exchange: 16, 17; Reproduced historical essay: 193, 194, 200
compossibility38, 63, 105, 106, 107, 143, 147, 148, 150, 151, 155, 165, 168, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 184
conatus95; Reproduced historical essay: 199
conceptual metaphor99, 100
confirmation wave91, 93, 150, 169, 170, 172, 173
consequence without stakes37, 64
consequence-correction64, 105
consequential AI37
constitutional AI63, 64
constitutional floor37, 64, 105
constitutive relationality34, 98
constraint32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 63, 64, 82, 95, 101, 102, 103, 106, 121, 126, 127, 149, 150, 151, 154, 155, 168, 172, 173, 175, 177, 179; Reproduced AI exchange: 14, 16, 18; Reproduced historical essay: 190, 193
constraint-shaped probability landscape148, 149, 151, 152
container picture92, 97, 98, 99, 100, 108, 146, 147, 153, 156
contestability64
continuity without denial of ending1, 26, 83; Literary application: 76
control37, 104
Copenhagen interpretation56
correction ladder105
corrigibility33, 37, 38, 55, 63, 64, 65, 81, 102, 105, 106, 147, 148, 155, 156, 157, 164, 178, 179, 180, 181, 184; Literary application: 133, 134
corrigible mediation64, 105, 179
creative advanceReproduced AI exchange: 17, 18
cross-scale correspondence test154, 155
current AI without biological stakes155; Reproduced AI exchange: 16, 17
dagger-compact handshake146, 148, 149, 150, 160, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174
decoherence as the cost of openness174
decoherence174
deconstructionNotes: 205; Reproduced historical essay: 192, 193
deep ecologyNotes: 205; Reproduced historical essay: 201, 202
deep event schema34, 103, 126
delocalized AI embodimentReproduced AI exchange: 18; Literary application: 132, 133
derivative information34, 103
diachronic emergence95, 151
directional retention166
directionality (irreversibility)32, 35, 38, 63, 64, 65, 92, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 143, 153, 154, 159, 165, 166, 167, 180; Literary application: 47, 49, 51, 130
DisCoCat146, 148, 149, 153, 162, 163
disindividuation117, 118, 119
disparation93
dissipative individuation103
dissipative structures1
distributed responsibility37, 38, 63, 106
domination34, 38, 64, 65, 106, 143, 155, 156, 175, 180, 181
double-slit experiment90
ecological psychologyReproduced AI exchange: 15
ecosophy ASReproduced historical essay: 202
effective exit105, 155, 156, 178, 179
embodied constraint-enabled agent-originated freedom95, 151, 152
embodied knowledge36, 98; Reproduced historical essay: 193
embodied organization33, 36, 37, 152; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16
embodied scaffolding98
embodiment33, 36, 37, 64, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 104, 105, 112, 115, 116, 121, 126, 127, 146, 147, 152, 153, 155; Literary application: 4, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 128, 130, 133; Reproduced AI exchange: 14, 15, 16, 17, 18; Reproduced historical essay: 193, 194, 200
embodiment for AGIReproduced AI exchange: 14, 15, 16, 17
emergence32, 35, 94, 95, 102, 103, 118, 146, 147, 150, 151, 161, 169
emergent novelty35, 94, 95, 103, 147, 148, 150, 151, 161; Literary application: 43, 50, 51
emotion30, 115; Reproduced historical essay: 193, 197, 200, 203
empathyLiterary application: 129; Reproduced historical essay: 200
enabling work38
enaction36, 152; Reproduced AI exchange: 14, 15, 17; Reproduced historical essay: 193
engineered peace142
entanglement100, 146, 153, 160, 173, 174
entropy97; Reproduced historical essay: 190
epistemic becoming81, 119, 120, 127
epistemic indeterminacy94, 151
error threshold94
ethics of becoming37, 38, 63, 105
ethics of design63, 64
ethics of identification and dependenceReproduced historical essay: 200, 201
events33, 35, 57, 91, 92, 108, 116, 122, 126, 146, 148, 149, 150, 159, 160, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 173, 174; Reproduced historical essay: 194, 203
everliving fire96
evolution94, 136; Reproduced historical essay: 189, 190, 191, 194, 195, 197
evolutionary variation94
extended criticalityReproduced AI exchange: 15
external memory36, 37, 64, 104, 105, 126, 147, 155, 156; Literary application: 131; Reproduced historical essay: 195
fallacy of misplaced concreteness100; Literary application: 131
fallibility104, 105
feeling36, 59, 64, 82, 97; Literary application: 72, 128, 129; Reproduced historical essay: 193, 197, 200, 202
Fernández's staircase87, 136
field of potential34, 35, 93, 117, 120, 121, 126, 150, 151, 160, 161
field of sense147
flesh99, 153
foreclosure64, 105, 106, 107, 147, 155, 175, 176, 177, 179, 180, 181
forgiveness25
form-taking34, 35, 103, 116, 153, 154
formal undecidability94, 147, 157, 164, 182, 183
formative frictionLiterary application: 130, 131
four-dimensional block92, 167
freedom95, 105, 112, 151, 152; Literary application: 129, 131
function148, 151; Reproduced historical essay: 197
functional information95, 137, 148, 151, 152
future as stakeholder105
futurity under constraint36, 97
general novelty engine151
generalizable constraint regime106, 179, 180, 181
generative realism32, 33, 39, 57, 127
gift-giving cycleReproduced historical essay: 203, 204
Goodhart as a non-faithful functor155, 156
grammar33, 34, 96, 99, 102, 103, 121, 122, 126, 146, 153, 154, 163, 181, 184; Reproduced AI exchange: 17; Reproduced historical essay: 192
grammatical aspect99
growing universe32, 92, 167; Notes: 41
hard problem of consciousness100, 147
Hermitian adjoint149, 150, 160, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174
hidden body of AILiterary application: 129
historical identity152
historical universe101
holographic principle136
holon107, 156
homeostasis152; Literary application: 68
homology57
human creativity6; Reproduced historical essay: 198, 204
human–animal différanceReproduced historical essay: 189, 191, 192, 193, 197
Hume’s gap (is–ought)37, 63, 105, 147, 155, 156, 175, 181
hylomorphism93, 150
hyperobjects2, 142
I can36, 98, 99, 146, 153
identity32, 81, 96, 100, 108, 112, 118, 121, 146, 152, 156, 162; Literary application: 26, 74, 76, 132; Reproduced historical essay: 199, 200
illusion problem100
illusionism100, 147
image schemas99, 153; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16
impermanence35, 41, 96, 102, 103; Notes: 41; Literary application: 43, 45, 50, 132
in-formation34, 35, 103, 116, 121, 122, 148, 154, 156
incompleteness result94, 146, 147, 154, 157, 164, 182, 183, 184, 185
incompossibility as obstruction175, 177, 179, 180, 181
ind-object147, 150, 153, 154, 158, 164, 165, 166, 167, 184
individuation57, 81, 93, 100, 108, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 126, 146, 148, 150, 151, 153, 154, 160, 161; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16
inexhaustibility32, 33, 158, 164
information34, 35, 155, 182; Reproduced historical essay: 203; Literary application: 71
infrastructural functions33, 36; Literary application: 128
inherited openness94, 149, 150, 151, 168
integrated information theory (IIT)Reproduced AI exchange: 16
intelligence as sense-making36, 152; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16, 17
interdependence34, 35, 102, 103, 105, 118, 153, 154; Reproduced historical essay: 201
irreversible harm38, 64, 105, 106, 143, 180
joint-state priority160, 173
jo–ha–kyū41, 53; Notes: 41; Literary application: 46, 50, 51
judgment36, 37, 38, 39, 58, 64, 65, 104, 105, 106, 127, 143, 155, 180; Reproduced historical essay: 201
kept difference95, 101, 103
knitting92
language8, 32, 33, 34, 99, 100, 107, 119, 120, 146, 147, 153, 163; Reproduced AI exchange: 16; Notes: 205; Reproduced historical essay: 192, 193, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199
law of increasing functional information95, 137, 148, 151; Reproduced AI exchange: 17
law-like or ordered indeterminacy151
lawfulness35, 38, 39, 57, 101, 102, 103, 126, 127, 136, 154
layered historical actuality92, 166
leverage106
libertarian free will95
life36, 37, 64, 82, 97, 98, 104, 147, 152, 155, 161, 162, 180; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16, 17, 18; Literary application: 68, 70, 71, 74, 75, 76, 77, 128, 129, 130, 133; Reproduced historical essay: 190, 192, 194
LIFI+137, 151; Reproduced AI exchange: 17
lived body82; Literary application: 67, 68, 76; Reproduced historical essay: 193, 194
loose connection28
lure37, 39
many-worlds interpretation56
material inequality140, 141
measurement problem169
memory of becoming101
memory29, 30, 33, 34, 36, 38, 95, 106, 115, 121, 122, 140; Literary application: 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 133; Reproduced historical essay: 188, 194, 195
meshwork107, 108, 146, 153, 161
meta-law35, 38, 101, 102, 103, 126, 127, 154, 157, 164, 182, 184, 185
meta-problem of consciousness100, 147
metabolism33
metaphor as infrastructure100
metaphor99, 100, 122, 146, 153; Reproduced AI exchange: 15; Reproduced historical essay: 195, 199
metastability93, 97, 103, 116, 117, 118, 119, 148, 150, 151, 154, 160, 161, 168; Reproduced AI exchange: 16
milieu36, 98, 103, 104, 119, 120, 121, 122, 127, 146, 152, 155
model-in-a-world104, 155
moral circleReproduced historical essay: 190, 200
moral error63
moral underdetermination of relation34, 105
murmuration80, 107, 108
mutual specification98
natural selection136
no-world ontology146, 147, 156, 157, 158
noaReproduced historical essay: 197
noh as presentation of essence8, 9, 41, 42; Notes: 41
non-coincidence99
noumenalReproduced historical essay: 198
objective statistical ontology148, 149
objectivity33, 81, 102, 154
offer wave91, 93, 150, 169, 170, 172, 173
one-world ontology168
ontic indeterminacy93, 94, 148, 149, 151, 174
ontic structural realism107, 153, 154, 156
ontogenesis117; Epigraph: 114; Reproduced historical essay: 194
ontological irreducibility151
ontological memory166
open actualization150, 165, 166, 167, 168, 173
operating conditions of becoming103
operationally closed97, 152, 155, 162; Reproduced AI exchange: 15
orchestrated technē127
organismic poeticsReproduced AI exchange: 16
organism–environment transaction98
organization36, 37, 94, 97, 103, 104, 115, 116, 117, 119, 147, 151, 161, 166; Reproduced AI exchange: 15; Reproduced historical essay: 192
organizational directedness95
organizational retention34, 95, 102, 103, 106, 148, 151
organologyReproduced historical essay: 192
other-regard functions64, 155, 156
partial structure146, 147, 148, 175
participation37, 38, 39, 105, 107, 121, 127, 170; Reproduced AI exchange: 17; Reproduced historical essay: 196, 197
perception33, 36, 98; Reproduced AI exchange: 16; Literary application: 70; Reproduced historical essay: 193
persistence34, 36, 65, 95, 97, 107, 116, 152; Epigraph: 26
phallogocentrismNotes: 205; Reproduced historical essay: 204
philosophy as personal, public inquiry79, 80, 81, 82, 83
poiesis41; Notes: 41; Reproduced AI exchange: 16; Literary application: 48, 50, 51
point-surjectivity157, 182, 183, 184, 185
possible, the (real possibility)32, 34, 36, 38, 39, 57, 79, 82, 83, 87, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 97, 98, 102, 103, 105, 106, 107, 108, 116, 117, 118, 120, 121, 122, 126, 127, 143, 146, 148, 149, 150, 151, 154, 155, 156, 158, 159, 160, 165, 166, 167, 168, 170, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 184; Notes: 41; Literary application: 44, 45, 46, 47, 51
potentia90; Notes: 41
power37, 63, 64, 65, 98, 105, 106, 107, 141, 156; Reproduced AI exchange: 16; Reproduced historical essay: 189
praxis triage106, 180
praxis37, 38, 63, 105, 106, 126, 127, 155, 156, 175
precarious37, 97, 152, 162; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 18
predetermination32, 93, 94, 120, 151
preindividual93, 117, 118, 126, 150, 151, 160, 161
present, the41, 91, 92, 93, 101, 149, 150, 154, 158, 159, 165, 166, 167, 168, 173, 184; Notes: 41; Literary application: 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52; Reproduced historical essay: 203, 204
process philosophy81
productive band of bounded openness94, 151
productive indeterminacy32, 35, 37, 39, 82, 93, 94, 95, 103, 148, 149, 150, 151, 165, 168; Reproduced AI exchange: 17
promise106
propensity90, 146, 148, 149, 152, 159, 169, 173, 174
propensity to persist95
psychic and collective individuation118
psychoanalysis as mediated self-conversation30, 79, 85, 119, 120, 122
psychological complex115, 116, 121
quantum indistinguishability96
quantum nonlocality100, 153, 154, 160, 173, 174
quantum substratum94, 108, 149, 150, 151; Notes: 41
quantum transaction33, 150, 168, 169, 170, 171, 173, 174
quasi-truth146, 147, 148, 175
r > g constraint-schema140
real goods37, 38, 82, 83, 105, 106
realism32, 33, 81, 102, 119, 120, 154
reason33, 80, 81, 83, 97, 99, 151, 152; Literary application: 133; Reproduced historical essay: 193, 197, 201, 202
reciprocity as exposure36
reclaiming38, 106
reconstruction38, 106
recurrent constraint-profile154
reef-scale AI systemLiterary application: 132
reflexivity87, 126, 127, 147, 148, 154, 157, 158, 164, 182, 184, 185
regime of correction105
regime-centered explanation37, 104, 155
regime-scaled universality106
regime33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 63, 64, 82, 83, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 127, 140, 141, 142, 143, 148, 155, 156, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181; Literary application: 131, 133
regression114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119; Epigraph: 114
reiteration34, 103, 126, 151
relation4, 33, 34, 38, 39, 56, 91, 93, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 107, 108, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 146, 147, 153, 156, 159, 160, 161, 163, 173; Reproduced AI exchange: 15; Reproduced historical essay: 192, 197, 202
relational knowledge127
relational normativity155, 156
relational persistence96
relational personhood4
relational quantum mechanics56
relational self26, 33, 108, 156, 157, 163
relations relate relations34, 93, 107, 156, 163; Reproduced AI exchange: 16
relativistic transactional interpretation57, 58, 91, 169, 173, 174; Reproduced AI exchange: 17
repair38, 83, 106
representation8, 37, 39, 116, 117, 153, 154, 157, 159, 164, 170, 174, 182, 183, 184, 185; Reproduced historical essay: 191, 192, 198
repression30; Reproduced historical essay: 189, 190
reproduction140; Literary application: 72, 73, 75
residual potential93
resolution57, 82, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 103, 116, 118, 121, 122, 150, 154, 159, 160, 161
resonanceReproduced historical essay: 195, 196
responsibility37, 38, 39, 63, 64, 65, 96, 104, 105, 106, 107, 127, 156; Reproduced AI exchange: 18; Literary application: 129, 130; Reproduced historical essay: 201
retention and protention101
retrocausality170
reverse course of ontogenesis117, 118, 119; Epigraph: 114
reversibility, chiasm and écart99, 153
rights-by-propertyReproduced historical essay: 200
ritual mediation and affective recovery of animalityReproduced historical essay: 188, 196, 197, 200
scale equivalence34, 57, 58, 82, 103, 136, 146, 148, 149, 151, 154, 156, 163
scale invariance57, 136; Reproduced AI exchange: 17
science33, 56, 81, 136; Reproduced historical essay: 189, 193, 194, 201
scientifiction62
score becomes the gate104
sea, crest, wake41, 91, 92, 93, 102, 106, 108, 120, 121, 122, 123, 126, 147, 150, 151, 153, 159, 166, 167, 168, 169, 173, 174, 181; Notes: 41; Literary application: 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52
second law of thermodynamics97; Reproduced historical essay: 190
selection93, 94, 102, 126, 127, 137, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 155, 156, 159, 160, 165, 166, 168, 169, 173, 174, 180, 181
selection without selector147, 168
self, the, as achieved continuity4, 81, 95, 98, 99, 100, 105, 108, 112, 121, 151, 152, 156, 163; Reproduced AI exchange: 17; Literary application: 26, 132, 133; Epigraph: 112; Reproduced historical essay: 193, 200
self-maintenance threshold for stakes37, 104, 152, 155; Literary application: 132, 133
self-organization107
self-taught amateurism55, 56, 57, 58, 136
semantic and interpretive indeterminacyReproduced historical essay: 193
semiosisReproduced historical essay: 194
sense-making36, 97, 152; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 18; Literary application: 68
shared and plural control65, 142
situatedness98, 107, 127; Literary application: 70; Reproduced historical essay: 193, 194, 202
snake eating itself as renewal114, 115, 116, 117, 119, 121, 122
social inheritance142
somatic marker hypothesisReproduced AI exchange: 15
somatic markerReproduced AI exchange: 15
spacetime57, 92, 150, 159, 166, 169; Notes: 41
speciesismReproduced historical essay: 190, 200
stability32, 34, 38, 39, 107
stakes36, 37, 38, 64, 97, 104, 106, 147, 155, 156; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16; Literary application: 129, 130
stochastic parrotReproduced AI exchange: 16
string theory136
strong compossibility155, 178, 179, 180, 181
structurally coupled33, 98; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16
structured openness32, 82, 95, 151, 152
synchronic emergence94
synchronicity59, 60, 85, 86
technical ensemble104, 155
technicity127
technē36, 37, 103, 104, 127, 148, 154, 155
temporal disparity35, 65, 101, 102, 103, 154
tertiary retentionReproduced historical essay: 192, 195
the laws of change35, 63, 95, 101, 102, 103, 126, 151
the measurable standing in for the real38, 105, 155, 156
the real as resistance32, 33, 81, 102
the transindividual118
the unthought known115, 118
theorem of non-closure147, 154, 157, 164, 182, 183, 184, 185
theōrein103, 154, 155
threshold94, 95, 150, 180
time35, 36, 38, 41, 53, 63, 65, 90, 91, 92, 96, 100, 101, 102, 103, 105, 108, 118, 120, 152, 153, 154, 162, 165, 166, 167, 170, 173; Literary application: 44, 47, 68, 69, 73; Reproduced historical essay: 191, 195, 197, 203, 204
tool to milieu to regime36, 37, 103, 104, 105; Literary application: 130, 131
trans-disciplinary synthesis55, 56, 57, 58
trans-perspectival invariant57, 102, 103, 154
transactional interpretation (TI)57, 169, 174
transduction120, 127
triage106, 180
trust36, 38, 83, 104, 106, 107, 155, 156
truthmaker requirement108
umwelt98; Literary application: 68; Reproduced historical essay: 201
uncertainty–indeterminacy distinction93, 94
understanding8, 56, 79, 81, 82, 83; Reproduced AI exchange: 17; Literary application: 131
universalizability — viability of common architectures38, 106, 181
value36, 37, 39, 64, 97, 104, 105, 127, 147, 148, 151, 152, 155, 156, 180; Reproduced AI exchange: 14, 15, 16, 17; Literary application: 128; Reproduced historical essay: 191, 193, 199, 203
value continuity36
viability36, 37, 64, 65, 97, 147, 148, 152, 155, 156; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16, 18; Literary application: 132, 133
viability valuation147, 148, 151, 152, 155, 156
viability–measure distinction64, 65
viable agency37, 38, 105, 155, 156, 179
view from nowhere8, 82, 127; Literary application: 74, 75
vulnerability33, 36, 82, 83, 107, 116, 121; Literary application: 73, 74, 75; Reproduced historical essay: 200, 201
warrant65
wavefunction collapse168, 169
wave–particle duality90
weak emergence94
wonder without credulity57, 58, 79, 80, 81, 82
world-coupling under consequence33, 36
world-ending as uprooted way of life1, 2, 142
world-making36, 37, 38, 63, 96, 103, 104, 105, 127, 147, 155, 175, 179, 180, 181; Reproduced AI exchange: 14, 17
world-making imperative37, 38, 39, 63, 64, 65, 82, 83, 105, 106, 127, 142, 143, 147, 155, 156, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 184; Literary application: 133
worldhood98
writing36, 82, 83, 118, 122; Literary application: 131; Notes: 205; Reproduced historical essay: 195, 197
zoemeReproduced historical essay: 192, 203, 204
élan vitalReproduced historical essay: 199
‘it thinks’6