Concept Index — The Possible Book
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| Concept | Pages and other locators |
|---|---|
| absolute absence | 108, 109, 156, 157 |
| absorber theory and quantum direct-action theory | 169, 173 |
| abstraction | 99, 100, 102, 105, 154, 155, 156; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16; Literary application: 131; Reproduced historical essay: 191, 196, 198 |
| active archive | 104 |
| active threshold boundary | 98, 161 |
| actual, the | 32, 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 |
| actualization | 33, 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 constraint | 165, 166, 168, 169 |
| actualization functor | 148, 149, 150, 159, 165, 166, 168, 173 |
| adaptive complexity | 34, 35, 93, 95, 102, 103, 106, 148, 151, 166 |
| adaptivity | Reproduced AI exchange: 15 |
| adhesive non-collapse | 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181 |
| affordances | 36, 98, 146, 147, 153; Reproduced AI exchange: 16, 17, 18 |
| agency | 37, 95, 105, 142, 151, 152; Reproduced AI exchange: 17; Literary application: 129 |
| AI alignment as co-evolution | Reproduced AI exchange: 18; Literary application: 133 |
| AI as neighbor | Reproduced AI exchange: 18; Literary application: 132, 133, 134 |
| AI constitution for shared worlds | 37, 63, 64, 65, 180 |
| animalizing imagination | Reproduced historical essay: 198, 199 |
| answerability | 33, 36, 37, 38, 39, 63, 64, 65, 96, 104, 105, 106, 107, 127, 156; Reproduced AI exchange: 18; Reproduced historical essay: 201 |
| anticipation | 33, 36, 97; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16, 17 |
| anticipatory systems | Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16 |
| anxiety | 117, 118, 119; Epigraph: 114 |
| architectures of valuation | 37, 64, 104, 155 |
| archive intelligence | 104, 147, 148, 155 |
| archive success is not world success | 104, 155, 156 |
| artificial intelligence | 37, 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 laws | 62, 63, 64, 65 |
| associated milieu / individual–milieu coupling | 120, 121 |
| attention | 36, 37, 38, 39, 103, 106, 120; Literary application: 69; Reproduced historical essay: 196, 198 |
| autonomy | 37, 97; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 17, 18; Literary application: 132; Reproduced historical essay: 201 |
| autopoiesis | 37, 97, 152, 155, 162; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16, 17 |
| banality and normalization of evil | 140 |
| becoming | 9, 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 shore | 119, 121, 122, 123; Literary application: 43, 50, 51 |
| biological normativity | 36, 97, 152 |
| biosemiotics | Literary application: 71; Reproduced historical essay: 194 |
| bodily spatialization | 98 |
| body is memory | 101; Reproduced historical essay: 194, 195 |
| body schema | 98 |
| book as posthumous address | 1, 2, 83 |
| book shaped like its own subject | 87, 102, 126, 127, 158 |
| Born rule | 148, 149, 150, 160, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174 |
| Born-weight normalization | 169, 171, 172, 173, 174 |
| borrowed weighting | 37, 64, 104, 147, 148, 155 |
| bounded and open-ended evolutionary systems | 151 |
| capability erosion | Literary application: 130, 131 |
| capture of the conditions of judgment | 38, 64, 65, 105, 106, 143, 155, 156, 175, 178, 179, 180, 181 |
| care | 33, 34, 39, 64, 82, 83, 105, 119, 141; Literary application: 73, 74, 131 |
| categorical colimit | 146, 147, 150, 151, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 164, 165, 166, 167, 175, 176, 177, 179, 180, 181, 184 |
| category theory | 146, 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 classification | Literary application: 88 |
| closed to efficient causation | Reproduced AI exchange: 16 |
| co-emergence of self and world | 98 |
| co-evolution of laws and reality | 101, 184 |
| cogito and its variations | 4, 5, 6, 99 |
| cogito ergo boom | 6 |
| cognition | 82, 102, 127; Reproduced AI exchange: 16, 17; Reproduced historical essay: 193, 194, 200 |
| compossibility | 38, 63, 105, 106, 107, 143, 147, 148, 150, 151, 155, 165, 168, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 184 |
| conatus | 95; Reproduced historical essay: 199 |
| conceptual metaphor | 99, 100 |
| confirmation wave | 91, 93, 150, 169, 170, 172, 173 |
| consequence without stakes | 37, 64 |
| consequence-correction | 64, 105 |
| consequential AI | 37 |
| constitutional AI | 63, 64 |
| constitutional floor | 37, 64, 105 |
| constitutive relationality | 34, 98 |
| constraint | 32, 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 landscape | 148, 149, 151, 152 |
| container picture | 92, 97, 98, 99, 100, 108, 146, 147, 153, 156 |
| contestability | 64 |
| continuity without denial of ending | 1, 26, 83; Literary application: 76 |
| control | 37, 104 |
| Copenhagen interpretation | 56 |
| correction ladder | 105 |
| corrigibility | 33, 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 mediation | 64, 105, 179 |
| creative advance | Reproduced AI exchange: 17, 18 |
| cross-scale correspondence test | 154, 155 |
| current AI without biological stakes | 155; Reproduced AI exchange: 16, 17 |
| dagger-compact handshake | 146, 148, 149, 150, 160, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174 |
| decoherence as the cost of openness | 174 |
| decoherence | 174 |
| deconstruction | Notes: 205; Reproduced historical essay: 192, 193 |
| deep ecology | Notes: 205; Reproduced historical essay: 201, 202 |
| deep event schema | 34, 103, 126 |
| delocalized AI embodiment | Reproduced AI exchange: 18; Literary application: 132, 133 |
| derivative information | 34, 103 |
| diachronic emergence | 95, 151 |
| directional retention | 166 |
| 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 |
| DisCoCat | 146, 148, 149, 153, 162, 163 |
| disindividuation | 117, 118, 119 |
| disparation | 93 |
| dissipative individuation | 103 |
| dissipative structures | 1 |
| distributed responsibility | 37, 38, 63, 106 |
| domination | 34, 38, 64, 65, 106, 143, 155, 156, 175, 180, 181 |
| double-slit experiment | 90 |
| ecological psychology | Reproduced AI exchange: 15 |
| ecosophy AS | Reproduced historical essay: 202 |
| effective exit | 105, 155, 156, 178, 179 |
| embodied constraint-enabled agent-originated freedom | 95, 151, 152 |
| embodied knowledge | 36, 98; Reproduced historical essay: 193 |
| embodied organization | 33, 36, 37, 152; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16 |
| embodied scaffolding | 98 |
| embodiment | 33, 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 AGI | Reproduced AI exchange: 14, 15, 16, 17 |
| emergence | 32, 35, 94, 95, 102, 103, 118, 146, 147, 150, 151, 161, 169 |
| emergent novelty | 35, 94, 95, 103, 147, 148, 150, 151, 161; Literary application: 43, 50, 51 |
| emotion | 30, 115; Reproduced historical essay: 193, 197, 200, 203 |
| empathy | Literary application: 129; Reproduced historical essay: 200 |
| enabling work | 38 |
| enaction | 36, 152; Reproduced AI exchange: 14, 15, 17; Reproduced historical essay: 193 |
| engineered peace | 142 |
| entanglement | 100, 146, 153, 160, 173, 174 |
| entropy | 97; Reproduced historical essay: 190 |
| epistemic becoming | 81, 119, 120, 127 |
| epistemic indeterminacy | 94, 151 |
| error threshold | 94 |
| ethics of becoming | 37, 38, 63, 105 |
| ethics of design | 63, 64 |
| ethics of identification and dependence | Reproduced historical essay: 200, 201 |
| events | 33, 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 fire | 96 |
| evolution | 94, 136; Reproduced historical essay: 189, 190, 191, 194, 195, 197 |
| evolutionary variation | 94 |
| extended criticality | Reproduced AI exchange: 15 |
| external memory | 36, 37, 64, 104, 105, 126, 147, 155, 156; Literary application: 131; Reproduced historical essay: 195 |
| fallacy of misplaced concreteness | 100; Literary application: 131 |
| fallibility | 104, 105 |
| feeling | 36, 59, 64, 82, 97; Literary application: 72, 128, 129; Reproduced historical essay: 193, 197, 200, 202 |
| Fernández's staircase | 87, 136 |
| field of potential | 34, 35, 93, 117, 120, 121, 126, 150, 151, 160, 161 |
| field of sense | 147 |
| flesh | 99, 153 |
| foreclosure | 64, 105, 106, 107, 147, 155, 175, 176, 177, 179, 180, 181 |
| forgiveness | 25 |
| form-taking | 34, 35, 103, 116, 153, 154 |
| formal undecidability | 94, 147, 157, 164, 182, 183 |
| formative friction | Literary application: 130, 131 |
| four-dimensional block | 92, 167 |
| freedom | 95, 105, 112, 151, 152; Literary application: 129, 131 |
| function | 148, 151; Reproduced historical essay: 197 |
| functional information | 95, 137, 148, 151, 152 |
| future as stakeholder | 105 |
| futurity under constraint | 36, 97 |
| general novelty engine | 151 |
| generalizable constraint regime | 106, 179, 180, 181 |
| generative realism | 32, 33, 39, 57, 127 |
| gift-giving cycle | Reproduced historical essay: 203, 204 |
| Goodhart as a non-faithful functor | 155, 156 |
| grammar | 33, 34, 96, 99, 102, 103, 121, 122, 126, 146, 153, 154, 163, 181, 184; Reproduced AI exchange: 17; Reproduced historical essay: 192 |
| grammatical aspect | 99 |
| growing universe | 32, 92, 167; Notes: 41 |
| hard problem of consciousness | 100, 147 |
| Hermitian adjoint | 149, 150, 160, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174 |
| hidden body of AI | Literary application: 129 |
| historical identity | 152 |
| historical universe | 101 |
| holographic principle | 136 |
| holon | 107, 156 |
| homeostasis | 152; Literary application: 68 |
| homology | 57 |
| human creativity | 6; Reproduced historical essay: 198, 204 |
| human–animal différance | Reproduced historical essay: 189, 191, 192, 193, 197 |
| Hume’s gap (is–ought) | 37, 63, 105, 147, 155, 156, 175, 181 |
| hylomorphism | 93, 150 |
| hyperobjects | 2, 142 |
| I can | 36, 98, 99, 146, 153 |
| identity | 32, 81, 96, 100, 108, 112, 118, 121, 146, 152, 156, 162; Literary application: 26, 74, 76, 132; Reproduced historical essay: 199, 200 |
| illusion problem | 100 |
| illusionism | 100, 147 |
| image schemas | 99, 153; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16 |
| impermanence | 35, 41, 96, 102, 103; Notes: 41; Literary application: 43, 45, 50, 132 |
| in-formation | 34, 35, 103, 116, 121, 122, 148, 154, 156 |
| incompleteness result | 94, 146, 147, 154, 157, 164, 182, 183, 184, 185 |
| incompossibility as obstruction | 175, 177, 179, 180, 181 |
| ind-object | 147, 150, 153, 154, 158, 164, 165, 166, 167, 184 |
| individuation | 57, 81, 93, 100, 108, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 126, 146, 148, 150, 151, 153, 154, 160, 161; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16 |
| inexhaustibility | 32, 33, 158, 164 |
| information | 34, 35, 155, 182; Reproduced historical essay: 203; Literary application: 71 |
| infrastructural functions | 33, 36; Literary application: 128 |
| inherited openness | 94, 149, 150, 151, 168 |
| integrated information theory (IIT) | Reproduced AI exchange: 16 |
| intelligence as sense-making | 36, 152; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16, 17 |
| interdependence | 34, 35, 102, 103, 105, 118, 153, 154; Reproduced historical essay: 201 |
| irreversible harm | 38, 64, 105, 106, 143, 180 |
| joint-state priority | 160, 173 |
| jo–ha–kyū | 41, 53; Notes: 41; Literary application: 46, 50, 51 |
| judgment | 36, 37, 38, 39, 58, 64, 65, 104, 105, 106, 127, 143, 155, 180; Reproduced historical essay: 201 |
| kept difference | 95, 101, 103 |
| knitting | 92 |
| language | 8, 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 information | 95, 137, 148, 151; Reproduced AI exchange: 17 |
| law-like or ordered indeterminacy | 151 |
| lawfulness | 35, 38, 39, 57, 101, 102, 103, 126, 127, 136, 154 |
| layered historical actuality | 92, 166 |
| leverage | 106 |
| libertarian free will | 95 |
| life | 36, 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 body | 82; Literary application: 67, 68, 76; Reproduced historical essay: 193, 194 |
| loose connection | 28 |
| lure | 37, 39 |
| many-worlds interpretation | 56 |
| material inequality | 140, 141 |
| measurement problem | 169 |
| memory of becoming | 101 |
| memory | 29, 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 |
| meshwork | 107, 108, 146, 153, 161 |
| meta-law | 35, 38, 101, 102, 103, 126, 127, 154, 157, 164, 182, 184, 185 |
| meta-problem of consciousness | 100, 147 |
| metabolism | 33 |
| metaphor as infrastructure | 100 |
| metaphor | 99, 100, 122, 146, 153; Reproduced AI exchange: 15; Reproduced historical essay: 195, 199 |
| metastability | 93, 97, 103, 116, 117, 118, 119, 148, 150, 151, 154, 160, 161, 168; Reproduced AI exchange: 16 |
| milieu | 36, 98, 103, 104, 119, 120, 121, 122, 127, 146, 152, 155 |
| model-in-a-world | 104, 155 |
| moral circle | Reproduced historical essay: 190, 200 |
| moral error | 63 |
| moral underdetermination of relation | 34, 105 |
| murmuration | 80, 107, 108 |
| mutual specification | 98 |
| natural selection | 136 |
| no-world ontology | 146, 147, 156, 157, 158 |
| noa | Reproduced historical essay: 197 |
| noh as presentation of essence | 8, 9, 41, 42; Notes: 41 |
| non-coincidence | 99 |
| noumenal | Reproduced historical essay: 198 |
| objective statistical ontology | 148, 149 |
| objectivity | 33, 81, 102, 154 |
| offer wave | 91, 93, 150, 169, 170, 172, 173 |
| one-world ontology | 168 |
| ontic indeterminacy | 93, 94, 148, 149, 151, 174 |
| ontic structural realism | 107, 153, 154, 156 |
| ontogenesis | 117; Epigraph: 114; Reproduced historical essay: 194 |
| ontological irreducibility | 151 |
| ontological memory | 166 |
| open actualization | 150, 165, 166, 167, 168, 173 |
| operating conditions of becoming | 103 |
| operationally closed | 97, 152, 155, 162; Reproduced AI exchange: 15 |
| orchestrated technē | 127 |
| organismic poetics | Reproduced AI exchange: 16 |
| organism–environment transaction | 98 |
| organization | 36, 37, 94, 97, 103, 104, 115, 116, 117, 119, 147, 151, 161, 166; Reproduced AI exchange: 15; Reproduced historical essay: 192 |
| organizational directedness | 95 |
| organizational retention | 34, 95, 102, 103, 106, 148, 151 |
| organology | Reproduced historical essay: 192 |
| other-regard functions | 64, 155, 156 |
| partial structure | 146, 147, 148, 175 |
| participation | 37, 38, 39, 105, 107, 121, 127, 170; Reproduced AI exchange: 17; Reproduced historical essay: 196, 197 |
| perception | 33, 36, 98; Reproduced AI exchange: 16; Literary application: 70; Reproduced historical essay: 193 |
| persistence | 34, 36, 65, 95, 97, 107, 116, 152; Epigraph: 26 |
| phallogocentrism | Notes: 205; Reproduced historical essay: 204 |
| philosophy as personal, public inquiry | 79, 80, 81, 82, 83 |
| poiesis | 41; Notes: 41; Reproduced AI exchange: 16; Literary application: 48, 50, 51 |
| point-surjectivity | 157, 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 |
| potentia | 90; Notes: 41 |
| power | 37, 63, 64, 65, 98, 105, 106, 107, 141, 156; Reproduced AI exchange: 16; Reproduced historical essay: 189 |
| praxis triage | 106, 180 |
| praxis | 37, 38, 63, 105, 106, 126, 127, 155, 156, 175 |
| precarious | 37, 97, 152, 162; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 18 |
| predetermination | 32, 93, 94, 120, 151 |
| preindividual | 93, 117, 118, 126, 150, 151, 160, 161 |
| present, the | 41, 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 philosophy | 81 |
| productive band of bounded openness | 94, 151 |
| productive indeterminacy | 32, 35, 37, 39, 82, 93, 94, 95, 103, 148, 149, 150, 151, 165, 168; Reproduced AI exchange: 17 |
| promise | 106 |
| propensity | 90, 146, 148, 149, 152, 159, 169, 173, 174 |
| propensity to persist | 95 |
| psychic and collective individuation | 118 |
| psychoanalysis as mediated self-conversation | 30, 79, 85, 119, 120, 122 |
| psychological complex | 115, 116, 121 |
| quantum indistinguishability | 96 |
| quantum nonlocality | 100, 153, 154, 160, 173, 174 |
| quantum substratum | 94, 108, 149, 150, 151; Notes: 41 |
| quantum transaction | 33, 150, 168, 169, 170, 171, 173, 174 |
| quasi-truth | 146, 147, 148, 175 |
| r > g constraint-schema | 140 |
| real goods | 37, 38, 82, 83, 105, 106 |
| realism | 32, 33, 81, 102, 119, 120, 154 |
| reason | 33, 80, 81, 83, 97, 99, 151, 152; Literary application: 133; Reproduced historical essay: 193, 197, 201, 202 |
| reciprocity as exposure | 36 |
| reclaiming | 38, 106 |
| reconstruction | 38, 106 |
| recurrent constraint-profile | 154 |
| reef-scale AI system | Literary application: 132 |
| reflexivity | 87, 126, 127, 147, 148, 154, 157, 158, 164, 182, 184, 185 |
| regime of correction | 105 |
| regime-centered explanation | 37, 104, 155 |
| regime-scaled universality | 106 |
| regime | 33, 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 |
| regression | 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119; Epigraph: 114 |
| reiteration | 34, 103, 126, 151 |
| relation | 4, 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 knowledge | 127 |
| relational normativity | 155, 156 |
| relational persistence | 96 |
| relational personhood | 4 |
| relational quantum mechanics | 56 |
| relational self | 26, 33, 108, 156, 157, 163 |
| relations relate relations | 34, 93, 107, 156, 163; Reproduced AI exchange: 16 |
| relativistic transactional interpretation | 57, 58, 91, 169, 173, 174; Reproduced AI exchange: 17 |
| repair | 38, 83, 106 |
| representation | 8, 37, 39, 116, 117, 153, 154, 157, 159, 164, 170, 174, 182, 183, 184, 185; Reproduced historical essay: 191, 192, 198 |
| repression | 30; Reproduced historical essay: 189, 190 |
| reproduction | 140; Literary application: 72, 73, 75 |
| residual potential | 93 |
| resolution | 57, 82, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 103, 116, 118, 121, 122, 150, 154, 159, 160, 161 |
| resonance | Reproduced historical essay: 195, 196 |
| responsibility | 37, 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 protention | 101 |
| retrocausality | 170 |
| reverse course of ontogenesis | 117, 118, 119; Epigraph: 114 |
| reversibility, chiasm and écart | 99, 153 |
| rights-by-property | Reproduced historical essay: 200 |
| ritual mediation and affective recovery of animality | Reproduced historical essay: 188, 196, 197, 200 |
| scale equivalence | 34, 57, 58, 82, 103, 136, 146, 148, 149, 151, 154, 156, 163 |
| scale invariance | 57, 136; Reproduced AI exchange: 17 |
| science | 33, 56, 81, 136; Reproduced historical essay: 189, 193, 194, 201 |
| scientifiction | 62 |
| score becomes the gate | 104 |
| sea, crest, wake | 41, 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 thermodynamics | 97; Reproduced historical essay: 190 |
| selection | 93, 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 selector | 147, 168 |
| self, the, as achieved continuity | 4, 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 stakes | 37, 104, 152, 155; Literary application: 132, 133 |
| self-organization | 107 |
| self-taught amateurism | 55, 56, 57, 58, 136 |
| semantic and interpretive indeterminacy | Reproduced historical essay: 193 |
| semiosis | Reproduced historical essay: 194 |
| sense-making | 36, 97, 152; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 18; Literary application: 68 |
| shared and plural control | 65, 142 |
| situatedness | 98, 107, 127; Literary application: 70; Reproduced historical essay: 193, 194, 202 |
| snake eating itself as renewal | 114, 115, 116, 117, 119, 121, 122 |
| social inheritance | 142 |
| somatic marker hypothesis | Reproduced AI exchange: 15 |
| somatic marker | Reproduced AI exchange: 15 |
| spacetime | 57, 92, 150, 159, 166, 169; Notes: 41 |
| speciesism | Reproduced historical essay: 190, 200 |
| stability | 32, 34, 38, 39, 107 |
| stakes | 36, 37, 38, 64, 97, 104, 106, 147, 155, 156; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16; Literary application: 129, 130 |
| stochastic parrot | Reproduced AI exchange: 16 |
| string theory | 136 |
| strong compossibility | 155, 178, 179, 180, 181 |
| structurally coupled | 33, 98; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16 |
| structured openness | 32, 82, 95, 151, 152 |
| synchronic emergence | 94 |
| synchronicity | 59, 60, 85, 86 |
| technical ensemble | 104, 155 |
| technicity | 127 |
| technē | 36, 37, 103, 104, 127, 148, 154, 155 |
| temporal disparity | 35, 65, 101, 102, 103, 154 |
| tertiary retention | Reproduced historical essay: 192, 195 |
| the laws of change | 35, 63, 95, 101, 102, 103, 126, 151 |
| the measurable standing in for the real | 38, 105, 155, 156 |
| the real as resistance | 32, 33, 81, 102 |
| the transindividual | 118 |
| the unthought known | 115, 118 |
| theorem of non-closure | 147, 154, 157, 164, 182, 183, 184, 185 |
| theōrein | 103, 154, 155 |
| threshold | 94, 95, 150, 180 |
| time | 35, 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 regime | 36, 37, 103, 104, 105; Literary application: 130, 131 |
| trans-disciplinary synthesis | 55, 56, 57, 58 |
| trans-perspectival invariant | 57, 102, 103, 154 |
| transactional interpretation (TI) | 57, 169, 174 |
| transduction | 120, 127 |
| triage | 106, 180 |
| trust | 36, 38, 83, 104, 106, 107, 155, 156 |
| truthmaker requirement | 108 |
| umwelt | 98; Literary application: 68; Reproduced historical essay: 201 |
| uncertainty–indeterminacy distinction | 93, 94 |
| understanding | 8, 56, 79, 81, 82, 83; Reproduced AI exchange: 17; Literary application: 131 |
| universalizability — viability of common architectures | 38, 106, 181 |
| value | 36, 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 continuity | 36 |
| viability | 36, 37, 64, 65, 97, 147, 148, 152, 155, 156; Reproduced AI exchange: 15, 16, 18; Literary application: 132, 133 |
| viability valuation | 147, 148, 151, 152, 155, 156 |
| viability–measure distinction | 64, 65 |
| viable agency | 37, 38, 105, 155, 156, 179 |
| view from nowhere | 8, 82, 127; Literary application: 74, 75 |
| vulnerability | 33, 36, 82, 83, 107, 116, 121; Literary application: 73, 74, 75; Reproduced historical essay: 200, 201 |
| warrant | 65 |
| wavefunction collapse | 168, 169 |
| wave–particle duality | 90 |
| weak emergence | 94 |
| wonder without credulity | 57, 58, 79, 80, 81, 82 |
| world-coupling under consequence | 33, 36 |
| world-ending as uprooted way of life | 1, 2, 142 |
| world-making | 36, 37, 38, 63, 96, 103, 104, 105, 127, 147, 155, 175, 179, 180, 181; Reproduced AI exchange: 14, 17 |
| world-making imperative | 37, 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 |
| worldhood | 98 |
| writing | 36, 82, 83, 118, 122; Literary application: 131; Notes: 205; Reproduced historical essay: 195, 197 |
| zoeme | Reproduced historical essay: 192, 203, 204 |
| élan vital | Reproduced historical essay: 199 |
| ‘it thinks’ | 6 |