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Concept Index — The Real Book, Volume III

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ConceptPages and other locators
aboutness22, 23, 24
absolute absenceNotes: 393, 394, 395, 396; Epilogue: 349, 352, 354, 357, 358, 359, 360, 361
abstraction2, 10, 12, 16, 23, 24, 28, 30, 31, 32, 34, 41, 50, 63, 64, 76, 77, 79, 81, 83, 84, 95, 98, 101, 102, 105, 106, 107, 112, 118, 124, 125, 129, 130, 131, 132, 135, 136, 138, 141, 142, 145, 146, 147, 148, 155, 156, 159, 170, 171, 177, 184, 185, 187, 193, 201, 203, 204, 218, 219, 223, 233, 238, 252, 258, 266, 280, 287, 291, 294, 296, 307, 308, 324, 330, 336, 337, 340; Epilogue: 350, 351, 354, 361; Reproduced AI exchange: 400
active archive143, 146, 147, 148
active perceptual systems156
actual entities333
actual occasion333
actual, the5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 24, 31, 32, 33, 38, 52, 54, 55, 56, 59, 102, 103, 112, 132, 334, 335; Notes: 349, 356, 395; Epilogue: 352, 356, 357; Authorship account: 403, 404
actualization3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 61, 101, 102, 103, 134, 327, 332, 334, 335; Notes: 38; Epilogue: 352, 358, 359
actualization as lawful selection under constraint9, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60, 102
adaptive complexity23, 24, 26, 33, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 47, 51, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 69, 71, 72, 73, 81, 82, 83, 87, 89, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 102, 103, 121, 122, 123, 130, 134, 147, 152, 172, 183, 186, 191, 193, 198, 203, 204, 210, 235, 241, 242, 244, 245, 285, 287, 294, 299, 305, 329
adaptivity79, 157; Reproduced AI exchange: 398
affordances155, 156, 173, 210, 218, 220, 222, 224, 228, 244, 279, 284, 285, 295; Reproduced AI exchange: 399, 400, 401
agency47, 78, 85, 101, 147, 149, 161, 162, 163, 164, 170, 176, 210, 211, 215, 219, 222, 224, 225, 226, 227, 229, 230, 231, 233, 234, 242, 243, 244, 248, 250, 253, 256, 258, 259, 260, 262, 265, 266, 267, 274, 275, 279, 286, 290, 296, 297, 299, 301, 306, 307, 309, 310, 313, 319; Reproduced AI exchange: 400; Authorship account: 406; Living in a World of Relations: 345
agency belongs to the assemblage162
AI alignment as co-evolutionReproduced AI exchange: 401
AI as neighbor167, 168, 197, 198; Reproduced AI exchange: 402
AI constitution for shared worlds168, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200; Notes: 193, 199
answerability1, 101, 115, 118, 128, 137, 148, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 166, 168, 170, 173, 174, 177, 180, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 193, 195, 197, 198, 200, 201, 205, 207, 209, 210, 211, 212, 215, 220, 221, 222, 227, 230, 231, 234, 241, 242, 244, 246, 247, 252, 255, 259, 260, 263, 265, 266, 267, 270, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 284, 285, 287, 290, 292, 294, 295, 297, 299, 300, 302, 303, 304, 305, 308, 309, 310, 312, 313, 314, 318, 320, 321, 322, 324, 342, 343; Reproduced AI exchange: 401; Authorship account: 403, 405, 406; Case Regimes table: 323
anti-entropy329
anticipation1, 28, 91, 125, 263, 305; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 400
anticipatory systemsReproduced AI exchange: 398, 400
architectures of valuation164, 165, 169; Notes: 165
archive intelligence137, 143, 146, 147, 148, 149, 152, 153, 155, 158, 160, 173, 201; Authorship account: 405
archive success is not world success153, 158, 186, 187; Case Regimes table: 323
artificial empathy165, 166, 167, 213, 258, 259; Notes: 165, 167
artificial intelligence1, 3, 76, 94, 95, 96, 98, 137, 138, 139, 140, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 156, 157, 158, 161, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 180, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 205, 265, 285, 286, 311; Notes: 143, 165, 170, 188; Reproduced AI exchange: 397, 398, 399, 400, 401, 402; Authorship account: 403, 405, 406
as-if body loop165, 166
Asimov's hierarchy of laws188, 190, 191, 192, 193, 195, 196, 200; Notes: 188
aspectual operator132, 133, 134; Notes: 133
associated milieu / individual–milieu coupling26, 28, 143, 144, 145, 146, 150, 151, 162, 169, 225, 283; Authorship account: 403, 405
asymmetry from uneven impossibility36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48
attention1, 2, 47, 115, 139, 142, 146, 150, 151, 152, 169, 176, 179, 180, 204, 209, 210, 218, 223, 225, 228, 229, 233, 234, 239, 242, 244, 245, 247, 248, 250, 260, 272, 277, 284, 285, 286, 290, 291, 295, 296, 300, 304, 318, 339, 342, 346; Notes: 2; Case Regimes table: 323
attention economy142, 228, 260, 261, 285, 286
attunement175, 191, 221, 222, 295, 296, 337
autocatalytic sets122
autonomy163, 167, 168, 169, 236, 238, 251, 259, 321; Notes: 251; Reproduced AI exchange: 399, 400, 401, 402
autopoiesis157, 168, 197; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 400
banality and normalization of evil180, 272, 273, 281, 318
becoming1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 43, 47, 48, 50, 51, 54, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 81, 85, 88, 93, 98, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 109, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 126, 128, 129, 130, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 139, 140, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 171, 173, 186, 190, 198, 200, 202, 205, 206, 207, 208, 210, 211, 218, 221, 224, 225, 226, 230, 231, 233, 235, 239, 241, 242, 244, 246, 258, 264, 266, 267, 271, 278, 283, 290, 292, 298, 302, 303, 304, 313, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 327, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 335, 337, 340, 341, 342, 346; Epilogue: 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 357, 361; Notes: 392, 393; Reproduced AI exchange: 399, 401, 402; Authorship account: 403, 404; Living in a World of Relations: 345
biased reasoning159, 160; Notes: 160
bifurcation-point amplification59, 60; Notes: 59
biological normativity164, 169, 170; Reproduced AI exchange: 399
biological relativity329
biosemiotics80
blind variation and selective retention92
bodily spatialization155, 156
book shaped like its own subjectAuthorship account: 404, 405
Born rule55; Notes: 393
borrowed weighting164, 165, 167, 168, 175, 197, 200; Notes: 165, 167
capability erosion141, 147, 152, 161
capture of the conditions of judgment174, 178, 179, 182, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 199, 223, 230, 235, 241, 242, 248, 249, 250, 259, 260, 261, 262, 266, 267, 272, 275, 279, 280, 281, 286, 287, 293, 294, 297, 298, 299, 309, 311, 313, 318
care115, 157, 158, 164, 176, 177, 189, 197, 204, 213, 214, 216, 217, 218, 226, 227, 228, 231, 232, 233, 234, 245, 247, 255, 276, 291, 301, 317, 318, 321, 324, 332, 337; Case Regimes table: 323
category theory338, 339
causal efficacy of possibility16, 17, 22
causality as constraint22, 100, 120, 121
causation as transmitted organization13, 14, 15, 16, 17
closed to efficient causationReproduced AI exchange: 400
co-becoming5, 33, 104, 111, 119, 134, 329
co-emergence of self and world337
co-evolution of laws and reality121, 122
cognition60, 61, 63, 64, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 88, 103, 118, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 132, 133, 135, 140, 149, 156, 166, 167, 177, 213, 216, 233, 236, 336, 337, 338, 339; Notes: 133, 165; Reproduced AI exchange: 399, 400
combinatorial evolution of technology94
compassion166, 176, 177, 213, 240, 301
compossibility165, 166, 168, 177, 190, 191, 196, 198, 200, 206, 211, 224, 229, 239, 241, 258, 259, 260, 261, 263, 266, 267, 272, 281, 290, 298, 299, 303, 306, 314, 317, 320, 321, 322; Living in a World of Relations: 345
compounding functionality96, 97
conceptual blending130, 338
conceptual drift175, 176, 177
conceptual metaphor68, 76, 77, 83, 84, 130
concrescence333
concretization144, 145, 283
confirmation wave54, 55, 56, 102, 103, 334, 335; Notes: 38, 393
conjecture–refutation cycle92
consequence without stakes162, 188, 189, 190, 197
consequence-correction153, 173, 174, 186, 187, 193, 197
consequential AI139, 141, 162, 173, 178, 188, 189, 190, 196, 197, 202
constitutional AI189
constitutional floor188, 189, 190, 196, 197, 199
constitutive relationality61, 104, 111, 134
constraint2, 3, 6, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 60, 65, 66, 67, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 87, 88, 89, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 133, 134, 135, 136, 144, 145, 147, 148, 149, 155, 160, 163, 165, 166, 172, 186, 189, 195, 196, 197, 200, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 217, 218, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 232, 234, 235, 237, 238, 239, 241, 242, 243, 245, 246, 248, 249, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 265, 266, 267, 269, 270, 271, 273, 274, 276, 279, 281, 283, 284, 285, 287, 288, 290, 291, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 312, 313, 314, 317, 318, 320, 321, 322, 329, 340, 343; Notes: 165; Epilogue: 356; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 399, 401; Authorship account: 403, 404, 405; Living in a World of Relations: 345
constraint-directed organization78, 79, 80
constraint-retention22, 24, 27, 34, 89, 105, 147, 235, 263, 264, 329, 343
constraint-shaped probability landscape11, 12, 22
container picture63, 72, 76, 102, 129, 130, 133, 134, 135, 235, 236, 237, 244, 266, 329, 331, 332, 336, 338, 339, 340, 341, 346; Epilogue: 354, 355, 356, 357, 358, 361; Notes: 393, 394; Living in a World of Relations: 345
contestability141, 174, 178, 179, 181, 182, 189, 190, 191, 192, 196, 198, 199, 200, 203, 219, 241, 242, 243, 248, 249, 250, 255, 260, 261, 262, 265, 266, 267, 272, 274, 279, 280, 281, 282, 287, 288, 291, 292, 294, 295, 297, 299, 305, 306, 308, 309, 311, 312, 313, 317, 318, 319, 322, 324; Case Regimes table: 323
contingency36, 38, 47, 59, 60, 67, 69, 72, 73, 74, 88, 90, 97, 106, 111, 113, 132, 241, 252, 306, 319, 340; Notes: 59
continuity without denial of ending346
control56, 78, 95, 145, 162, 171, 172, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 204, 211, 249, 257, 262, 266, 277, 346; Notes: 204; Reproduced AI exchange: 400; Authorship account: 406; Case Regimes table: 323
convergent abductionNotes: 395, 396; Epilogue: 357, 358, 359, 360, 361
correction ladder158, 159, 186, 187
corrigibility51, 65, 92, 101, 115, 117, 118, 128, 135, 136, 140, 145, 153, 154, 156, 157, 159, 160, 161, 162, 165, 166, 168, 170, 172, 173, 174, 175, 177, 184, 186, 187, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 204, 206, 207, 209, 210, 211, 220, 223, 227, 229, 230, 234, 237, 241, 242, 243, 244, 248, 250, 255, 258, 259, 261, 262, 264, 267, 276, 280, 281, 282, 285, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 312, 313, 314, 316, 317, 319, 320, 321, 322, 324; Notes: 168, 193, 199
corrigible mediation173, 174, 175, 184, 192, 295, 296
cosmological expansion107, 108
cosmotechnics27, 28
creative advance117; Reproduced AI exchange: 400, 402
creativity as Whiteheadian ultimate principle333
criterial standing235, 236, 237, 239, 240
cross-scale correspondence test52, 53; Notes: 35
cultural evolution63, 64, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 92, 96, 97, 98, 104, 121
cumulative retention effect84
current AI without biological stakes149, 156, 157, 158, 160, 166, 167, 168, 189, 190, 197; Reproduced AI exchange: 399, 400; Authorship account: 405
decoherence58
decoherence as the cost of openness56, 57, 58, 59
deep ecology208, 209, 222, 240, 304
deep event schema104, 105, 111, 112, 130, 131, 133, 134, 135
deep freedom219, 220
delocalized AI embodiment169, 170; Reproduced AI exchange: 401
dependent co-arising343
derivative information3, 4, 5, 33, 34, 148, 153, 249; Notes: 87
developmental bias119, 120
diachronic emergence73
diagnostic grammar for praxis140, 152, 227, 241, 242, 296, 297, 298, 312, 321
dialects of lawfulness118, 119
differential replication of linguistic variants82, 83, 85, 86
digital object26, 27, 28
direct perception155, 156
directional retention61, 118, 127, 128, 134, 230, 246, 263, 264
directionality (irreversibility)17, 18, 20, 21, 46, 56, 60, 61, 65, 67, 70, 71, 74, 84, 87, 90, 97, 104, 110, 111, 116, 118, 121, 122, 127, 128, 131, 132, 134, 150, 152, 153, 158, 159, 172, 185, 186, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 196, 199, 203, 204, 206, 209, 210, 211, 221, 227, 229, 230, 235, 241, 244, 246, 247, 248, 250, 253, 254, 256, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 265, 269, 270, 271, 273, 274, 275, 281, 282, 284, 287, 288, 291, 292, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 304, 306, 309, 310, 311, 312, 318, 321, 322, 343; Notes: 73
disciplined seeing2; Notes: 2
disindividuation147, 151, 152
disparation11, 37
dissipative adaptation70, 71
dissipative individuation17, 18, 19, 20
dissipative structures17, 18, 19
distributed responsibility162, 227, 246, 274, 275, 276, 277, 279, 280, 281, 294, 309, 310, 312, 321, 324
domination191, 192, 196, 198, 199, 211, 220, 221, 223, 224, 228, 230, 234, 241, 243, 254, 256, 259, 262, 266, 267, 290, 298, 299, 307, 317, 318, 321; Living in a World of Relations: 345
dynamic resilience21
ecological psychology155, 156, 285; Reproduced AI exchange: 398
edge of chaos92
edibility240
effective exit173, 174, 175, 178, 190, 191, 192, 196, 198, 199, 287
embodied constraint-enabled agency47
embodied knowledge127, 155, 156, 157, 161, 290
embodied organization139, 140, 155, 156, 157, 158, 160, 163, 164; Reproduced AI exchange: 397, 399
embodied relational pattern337
embodied scaffolding152, 161, 217, 285, 286
embodiment74, 77, 79, 81, 83, 84, 98, 127, 128, 129, 130, 133, 135, 136, 138, 139, 140, 143, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 163, 164, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 175, 177, 178, 185, 186, 189, 190, 197, 198, 199, 201, 205, 211, 213, 217, 221, 224, 227, 233, 234, 259, 324, 332, 333, 336, 337, 338, 340; Epilogue: 357; Reproduced AI exchange: 397, 398, 399, 400, 401; Authorship account: 404, 405
embodiment for AGI167, 168; Reproduced AI exchange: 397, 398, 399, 400
emergence1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, 33, 34, 36, 43, 46, 47, 49, 55, 58, 61, 62, 69, 71, 73, 74, 75, 78, 79, 80, 81, 84, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 100, 102, 103, 117, 118, 120, 121, 122, 126, 128, 130, 134, 153, 172, 183, 195, 200, 210, 211, 212, 234, 242, 243, 262, 270, 277, 278, 294, 297, 313, 328, 342, 346
emergent novelty47, 61, 69, 71, 73, 89, 96, 97, 100, 118, 122, 123, 130, 134, 153, 172, 183, 195, 200, 211, 234, 242, 243, 269, 270, 288, 294
emotion164, 189, 213, 214, 215, 216, 233, 260, 277, 337; Notes: 165
empathy165, 166, 167, 177, 213, 214, 215, 216, 240, 250, 258, 259, 301; Notes: 165, 167
empirical equivalence8, 9; Notes: 392
enabling work291, 346
enacted values220, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 314, 316, 321
enaction130, 140, 156, 157, 161, 205, 207, 208, 209, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 231, 233, 252, 264, 266, 267, 294, 295, 296, 297, 300, 301, 302, 308, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321, 336, 337; Reproduced AI exchange: 397, 398, 400
enactive ecosophy205, 207, 208, 209, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 231, 252, 264, 266, 267, 296, 297, 300, 301, 308, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321
enframing147, 148, 171, 185
engineered peace195, 257, 258, 283
entanglement56, 57, 58; Epilogue: 353, 359, 360
entropy17, 18, 19, 34, 70, 71, 93, 116
epigenetic inheritance79
epistemic becoming2, 89, 93, 98, 135, 136
epistemic diffusion263, 264; Notes: 263
epistemic refusal118, 135, 136
error threshold72, 73
ethics of becoming190, 205, 209, 210, 211, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 231, 252, 258, 264, 266, 267, 297, 300, 301, 308, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320
ethics of design46, 113, 174, 203, 207, 210, 211, 227, 235, 245, 248, 260, 261, 262, 263, 274, 276, 279, 281, 282, 286, 287, 290, 291, 292, 294, 299, 301, 309, 310, 312, 319, 322; Case Regimes table: 323
ethics of identification and dependence238
ethics of the conditions of ethics248, 249, 250, 274, 279, 286, 289, 292, 297
events6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 33, 35, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 101, 102, 129, 131, 132, 133, 135, 148, 331, 333, 334, 335; Notes: 356; Epilogue: 352, 356, 359
evolution40, 41, 44, 47, 48, 51, 62, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 87, 92, 93, 94, 96, 98, 99, 100, 103, 104, 111, 116, 119, 120, 121, 123, 124, 125, 126, 135, 146, 206, 209, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 231, 241, 314, 317, 321, 337
evolutionary convergence50, 82, 83, 99, 100
evolutionary epistemology78, 92, 99, 103, 123, 124, 125, 126, 128, 135
evolutionary variation72, 73, 75, 120
evolved moral capacities79, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217
exaptation73, 74, 82
explainable AI173, 178, 192, 193, 287
extended criticalityReproduced AI exchange: 398
external memory27, 28, 29, 137, 139, 140, 142, 143, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 152, 153, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 164, 166, 171, 172, 173, 175, 180, 186, 189, 190, 192, 198, 201, 205, 213, 259, 336; Authorship account: 403, 404, 405
fairness46, 182, 183, 190, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 220, 232, 282, 317, 318, 321; Case Regimes table: 323
fallacy of misplaced concreteness16, 138, 141, 142, 147, 148, 155, 159, 170, 171, 184, 185, 193, 203, 204, 218, 223, 233, 238, 280, 287, 291, 294, 307, 324, 330; Epilogue: 350, 351, 354, 361; Case Regimes table: 323
fallibility124, 171, 340
feeling156, 157, 164, 165, 166, 167, 176, 177, 191, 240, 251, 259; Notes: 165, 167
field of potential6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 25, 29, 30, 32, 34, 36, 37, 38, 43, 48, 53, 56, 61, 145, 278, 316, 320, 329, 332, 334; Epilogue: 351, 353, 357, 358, 360, 361; Notes: 394
field of senseNotes: 355, 356, 394; Epilogue: 355, 356
flesh337
foreclosure190, 192, 206, 219, 220, 229, 239, 247, 258, 315, 318; Living in a World of Relations: 345
forgiveness221, 270, 271, 273, 282, 293, 322; Notes: 271
form-taking3, 4, 5, 13, 17, 18, 19, 31, 32, 33, 61, 249
formal undecidabilityNotes: 393, 394; Epilogue: 355
formative friction141, 151, 152, 160, 161, 174, 181, 182, 183; Case Regimes table: 323
frame60, 61, 63, 64, 66, 67, 74, 75, 77, 80, 82, 84, 89, 94, 103, 133, 135, 175, 176, 177, 217, 218
freedom88, 219, 220, 234, 245, 246, 247, 250, 253, 262, 305, 306, 313, 321
function23, 27, 50, 53, 62, 64, 68, 69, 71, 72, 73, 75, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 87, 92, 96, 97, 100, 101, 119, 120, 123, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152, 157, 164, 165, 166, 172, 214, 232, 233, 241, 281, 285, 287, 342; Notes: 165, 217
functional information23, 24, 26, 64, 69, 71, 81, 82, 83, 87, 92, 93, 123, 134
future as stakeholder229, 246, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 282
future responsibility without longtermism190, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267; Notes: 263
gedankenexperiment163, 165, 186, 187, 259, 299, 300, 307, 308; Notes: 170
generalizable constraint regime258, 259, 321
generative constraint3, 100, 101, 117, 118, 127, 132, 207, 208, 224, 244, 245, 258, 329
generative realism5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 32, 33, 205, 263, 264; Notes: 394, 395
grammar3, 6, 9, 34, 35, 39, 45, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 63, 67, 68, 71, 72, 81, 82, 84, 85, 87, 88, 91, 93, 94, 98, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 109, 110, 111, 112, 114, 115, 116, 117, 119, 121, 122, 123, 127, 128, 129, 132, 134, 135, 136, 137, 140, 152, 221, 242, 259, 283, 296, 304, 316; Notes: 133
grammatical aspectNotes: 133
hard problem of consciousness163
heterochrony74, 134, 247
hidden body of AI149, 150
hierarchical constraint65, 99, 100, 113, 114, 119, 120, 126
historical identityEpilogue: 354
historical stabilization121, 122, 127, 128, 134
holon61, 120, 342
homeostasis74, 79, 166, 167; Notes: 167
homunculus162, 336
horizontal gene transfer83
human creativity88, 221, 269, 270, 341, 346
human measure141
hylomorphism7, 13, 37
hyperobjects90, 310
I can155, 163, 171, 233, 234
ideas as constraint operators217, 218; Notes: 217
identity5, 7, 21, 24, 26, 27, 28, 32, 61, 74, 75, 163, 289, 315, 316, 327, 330, 331, 335, 337, 339, 346; Epilogue: 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 358, 359, 360; Notes: 392, 393
image schemas76, 77, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 134, 135, 156; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 400
impermanence65, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 84, 87, 90, 97, 110, 111, 118, 121, 122, 131, 134, 148, 151, 172, 193, 204, 245, 289, 291, 294, 321, 346; Living in a World of Relations: 345
in-formation3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 61, 77, 123, 139, 140, 144, 146, 148, 153, 207, 249, 329, 342, 347; Notes: 87; Epigraph: 4
incompleteness resultNotes: 394; Epilogue: 355
indefinite extensibilityNotes: 393, 394; Epilogue: 355
individuated self-modeling163, 164
individuation3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 43, 47, 48, 61, 72, 74, 75, 79, 101, 104, 111, 118, 119, 134, 139, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 163, 169, 172, 202, 203, 210, 211, 221, 223, 225, 226, 228, 242, 244, 258, 261, 272, 274, 278, 283, 293, 298, 301, 305, 306, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321, 327, 329, 331, 332, 333, 337, 340, 347; Epigraph: 4; Epilogue: 351, 352, 353, 358, 360, 361; Notes: 394; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 400; Authorship account: 403, 405
inequality regime112, 113, 114
information4, 5, 26, 27, 34, 39, 45, 52, 75, 80, 81, 87, 90, 91, 138, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150, 152, 155, 156, 161, 183, 186, 193, 194, 196, 201, 204, 210, 228, 229, 243, 247, 248, 249, 260, 261, 264, 284, 286, 287, 288, 289, 291, 292, 295, 298, 299, 307, 309, 312, 339, 342, 343; Notes: 38, 87; Case Regimes table: 323
infraethical design constraints249, 279, 286, 287, 288, 292, 299
infraethics248, 249, 260, 261, 274, 279, 285, 286, 287, 288, 292, 307
infrastructural functions26, 27, 28, 29, 36, 97, 145, 149, 150, 162, 175, 195, 204, 210, 218, 220, 221, 224, 225, 241, 243, 245, 249, 250, 253, 254, 257, 258, 261, 266, 267, 274, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 291, 292, 293, 297, 299, 307, 309, 310, 314, 315, 316, 317, 319, 321, 322, 343
inherited openness59, 60; Notes: 59
integrated information theory (IIT)Reproduced AI exchange: 400
intelligence as sense-making140, 156; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 399
interbeing343
interdependence47, 61, 65, 71, 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 83, 87, 90, 97, 104, 110, 111, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 127, 128, 131, 134, 151, 158, 163, 172, 186, 191, 195, 204, 211, 227, 230, 235, 241, 246, 247, 250, 252, 257, 262, 270, 272, 274, 275, 277, 280, 283, 284, 285, 294, 298, 301, 304, 305, 312, 321, 332, 333, 341, 343; Living in a World of Relations: 345
internal variance41
interoception167
intersubjectivity165, 166
irreversible harm159, 191, 192, 194, 195, 196, 197, 203, 204, 230, 246, 247, 254, 256, 259, 260, 261, 262, 269, 271, 272, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 298, 299, 300, 301, 309, 311, 312, 318
jagged intelligence160, 161
judgment150, 152, 158, 161, 164, 165, 168, 177, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 197, 198, 200, 201, 203, 204, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 229, 234, 241, 242, 248, 249, 250, 253, 259, 260, 261, 267, 269, 273, 274, 275, 277, 279, 280, 281, 286, 287, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 307, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 317, 318, 321, 322, 324; Authorship account: 404, 405, 406; Case Regimes table: 323
kept difference23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 34, 89, 105, 147, 235, 263, 264, 343
language39, 45, 50, 51, 54, 61, 67, 68, 76, 77, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 94, 98, 117, 119, 143, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 156, 158, 160, 163, 164, 170, 176, 177, 178, 225, 236, 237, 241, 266, 307, 336, 337, 338, 341; Notes: 133, 143; Reproduced AI exchange: 399, 400
law of increasing functional information23, 24, 25, 26, 61, 62, 64, 66, 68, 69, 71, 73, 81, 82, 83, 87, 92, 93, 96, 123, 134, 147; Reproduced AI exchange: 400
law-like or ordered indeterminacy53, 54
lawfulness1, 2, 3, 14, 38, 39, 50, 53, 54, 62, 63, 74, 80, 81, 85, 86, 88, 89, 90, 93, 94, 96, 97, 98, 100, 115, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 128, 129, 131, 134, 148, 327
left wall36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 48
leverage266, 276, 277, 290, 291, 297, 299, 300, 301, 308, 310
life1, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 31, 32, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 50, 62, 64, 66, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 92, 97, 116, 119, 122, 156, 157, 168, 229, 232, 247, 261, 266, 278, 298, 301, 302, 322, 331, 339, 343; Notes: 73; Epigraph: 253; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 400, 402; Living in a World of Relations: 345
life–mind continuity thesis157
LIFI+61, 62, 71, 81, 82, 87, 92, 93, 96, 134; Reproduced AI exchange: 400
logical qubit24, 25, 56, 57
longtermism190, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267; Notes: 263, 264
lure176, 177, 192, 193, 217; Notes: 217
many-worlds interpretation8, 9; Notes: 392
mass is not in spacetimeEpilogue: 356
material inequality104, 105, 106, 107, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115
measurement problemNotes: 392, 393
meme86, 108, 109
memory23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 32, 53, 67, 70, 76, 77, 79, 85, 97, 117, 134, 143, 146, 150, 162, 221, 236, 241, 257, 290, 292; Authorship account: 406
memory of becoming23, 241
merely conceivableNotes: 40, 356; Epilogue: 355, 356
meshwork329, 338, 340, 341, 343, 346, 347; Living in a World of Relations: 345
meta-law3, 51, 63, 65, 74, 80, 93, 98, 100, 115, 117, 121, 122, 128, 131, 134, 153, 171, 172, 195, 204, 209, 227, 229, 230, 235, 248, 249, 250, 262, 272, 273, 274, 279, 282, 286, 287, 288, 289, 292, 294, 297, 298, 299, 306, 307, 308, 309, 312, 317, 321
metabolism19, 20, 23, 25, 27, 32, 70, 72, 75, 79, 149, 150, 169, 285, 301, 318, 333, 343
metaphor26, 28, 51, 52, 53, 63, 64, 68, 74, 76, 77, 83, 84, 87, 88, 97, 98, 128, 130, 136, 147, 156, 163, 171, 173, 175, 176, 177, 217, 225, 248, 329, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340; Reproduced AI exchange: 398
metaphor as infrastructure175
metastability3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 47, 48, 72, 74, 77, 144, 145, 148, 153, 173, 210, 212, 226, 242, 278, 290, 319, 329, 331, 342; Epilogue: 358; Reproduced AI exchange: 400; Authorship account: 405
milieu1, 5, 7, 11, 13, 19, 26, 27, 28, 32, 72, 74, 101, 131, 134, 137, 139, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 153, 154, 158, 160, 161, 162, 167, 169, 172, 173, 180, 186, 199, 200, 201, 202, 205, 210, 222, 225, 226, 233, 243, 258, 261, 266, 274, 275, 278, 283, 284, 285, 289, 298, 305, 316, 318, 322, 332; Authorship account: 403, 405, 406
mineral evolution64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71
modal structures39, 40
model collapse153
model-in-a-world143, 144, 145
model-relative irreducibility120, 121
modulation5, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20, 21, 32, 33
moral architecture226, 227, 247, 248, 255, 271
moral attunement175, 191, 221, 222, 295, 296
moral circle235, 236, 237, 238, 239
moral ecology218, 221, 222, 245, 298
moral error231, 232, 234, 235
moral goods as ecological regularities209, 216, 231, 232, 233, 314, 316, 321
moral learning231, 234, 248, 249, 286, 289, 296, 297, 298
moral umwelt222, 248, 249, 250, 284, 318
moral underdetermination of relation212, 228, 229, 230, 231, 235, 244, 248, 321
more-than-human patients240, 298, 301, 302
multi-speed history150, 247, 248, 282, 311
murmuration1, 328, 329, 342, 347
narrative cognition84, 85
natural selection51, 58, 64, 68, 92, 93, 96, 100, 121, 123, 124
neural role binding82
neuronal avalanche87
niche construction44
no-world ontologyNotes: 349, 393, 394; Epilogue: 355
objectivity9, 15, 40, 54, 55, 56, 127, 128, 129, 135, 136, 171, 185, 193, 198, 216, 217, 218, 223, 233
offer wave54, 55, 56, 102, 103, 334, 335; Notes: 393; Epilogue: 359
one-world ontology55, 102
ontic indeterminacy9, 59, 60, 65, 118, 134; Epilogue: 352
ontic structural realism5, 327, 330, 331; Notes: 392, 393
ontogenesis4, 5, 11, 19, 23, 31, 62, 315
ontological impossibility37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 45, 46; Notes: 40
ontological irreducibility73
ontological memory22, 23, 24, 241
ontology of the between331
open generative order121, 122
operating conditions of becoming122, 123
operationally closed157, 168, 197; Reproduced AI exchange: 399
option value190, 264
orchestrated technēAuthorship account: 405, 406
order for free122
order–novelty dynamic balance92
organismic poeticsReproduced AI exchange: 400
organism–environment transaction148, 149, 152
organization5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 43, 47, 48, 49, 50, 70, 71, 72, 73, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 86, 88, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95, 101, 103, 114, 118, 119, 120, 128, 129, 134, 144, 145, 146, 149, 151, 156, 157, 158, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 172, 174, 175, 198, 199, 205, 212, 222, 223, 224, 226, 227, 233, 234, 241, 255, 257, 277, 278, 279, 283, 290, 320, 329, 330, 331, 332, 342, 343; Reproduced AI exchange: 399; Authorship account: 403, 404, 405
organizational retention6, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 33, 35, 64, 72, 73, 81, 89, 92, 96, 97, 101, 104, 105, 112, 113, 118, 122, 127, 128, 134, 147, 172, 224, 225, 241, 263, 299, 329
organology28, 29, 146, 147, 151, 152
origin-of-life transition122
other-regard functions165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 175, 197, 198, 213, 258, 259; Notes: 167
partial structure340
participation1, 26, 27, 28, 29, 47, 55, 116, 117, 136, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152, 165, 166, 173, 176, 190, 202, 205, 207, 218, 220, 221, 222, 230, 232, 233, 234, 243, 248, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 267, 269, 273, 274, 277, 278, 286, 287, 290, 297, 298, 301, 302, 307, 309, 310, 313, 314, 315, 316, 321, 329, 338, 342, 346, 347; Reproduced AI exchange: 400; Authorship account: 405, 406; Epilogue: 350
participatory sense-making165, 166, 221, 222, 277
perception2, 14, 15, 61, 67, 70, 75, 85, 89, 90, 92, 124, 130, 132, 138, 146, 151, 155, 156, 158, 172, 175, 191, 200, 201, 219, 221, 222, 234, 235, 237, 243, 246, 295, 296, 316, 336, 337, 338; Reproduced AI exchange: 400
perception–action coupling156
perceptual apprenticeship2, 138
persistence2, 3, 5, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32, 33, 42, 44, 51, 58, 62, 64, 69, 70, 74, 78, 90, 92, 98, 105, 106, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, 117, 122, 124, 131, 134, 145, 157, 163, 169, 170, 171, 193, 198, 199, 212, 220, 222, 224, 232, 240, 241, 248, 260, 263, 264, 279, 285, 286, 289, 305, 329, 331, 343, 347; Notes: 73, 392; Epilogue: 358
perspectival knowledge127
physical vacuumNotes: 395; Epilogue: 359, 360, 361
pidgin-to-creole emergence82, 84
plan bipartiteAuthorship account: 403, 404
pluralistic constraint on homology101, 135, 136
plurality as structural condition221, 248, 269, 272, 273, 318, 322
poiesisReproduced AI exchange: 400; Epigraph: 137
polyphasic being315
polytemporality74, 134
possible, the (real possibility)3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 69, 70, 79, 87, 90, 101, 102, 103, 104, 112, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 128, 130, 132, 133, 134, 135, 144, 145, 190, 200, 207, 208, 212, 242, 243, 278, 316, 322, 332, 334, 335, 346; Notes: 10, 40, 349, 356, 394, 395; Epilogue: 349, 351, 352, 353, 354, 356, 357, 358, 359, 360, 361; Authorship account: 403, 404
potentia8, 9, 10, 38, 40, 54, 102, 134, 334; Notes: 40, 356; Epilogue: 356, 359, 360
power13, 14, 15, 47, 146, 147, 152, 162, 178, 184, 188, 189, 191, 192, 194, 196, 197, 219, 224, 228, 230, 246, 255, 259, 260, 271, 275, 276, 277, 281, 283, 284, 286, 287, 289, 311, 312, 316, 317, 319, 328, 342; Reproduced AI exchange: 400; Living in a World of Relations: 345
power-law distribution48, 49, 64, 86, 87, 91, 108, 109
practical power to object135, 136
praxis1, 3, 137, 163, 173, 175, 185, 202, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 219, 221, 223, 227, 234, 242, 244, 252, 253, 258, 259, 260, 265, 266, 267, 274, 276, 279, 280, 281, 284, 285, 286, 288, 289, 291, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 305, 308, 313, 314, 315, 318, 320, 321; Epigraph: 205; Authorship account: 406
praxis triage269, 276, 277, 279, 284, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 301, 303
precarious74, 122, 123, 157, 167, 168, 197; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 399, 401
predetermination47, 53, 54, 59, 60, 83, 114, 122, 241; Authorship account: 405
preferential attachment108, 109
preindividual6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 25, 29, 30, 32, 34, 36, 37, 43, 48, 61, 278, 315, 316, 320, 332; Notes: 394, 395; Epilogue: 351, 353, 358, 360, 361
present, the10, 320; Notes: 10; Epilogue: 358
primary metaphor76, 77, 83, 84
principle of the identity of indiscerniblesNotes: 392, 393
process philosophy333
productive band of bounded openness72, 73, 87, 92, 133
productive indeterminacy9, 59, 60, 65, 72, 73, 88, 92, 97, 102, 118, 122, 123, 130, 133, 134, 172, 190, 200, 211, 242, 243, 288, 294
promise163, 221, 255, 256, 270, 271, 273, 274, 282, 293, 296, 318, 322
propensity54, 55
prototype-based categorization339, 340
psychic and collective individuation28, 29, 151, 152, 221, 256, 274, 278, 279, 315, 316, 317, 318
punctuated equilibrium74, 96
quantum haecceityNotes: 392, 393; Epilogue: 352, 353, 359, 360
quantum indistinguishability335; Notes: 392, 393; Epilogue: 352, 353, 359, 360, 361
quantum nonlocality56, 57, 58, 59, 103
quantum substratum8, 9, 10, 54, 59, 60, 102; Notes: 10; Epilogue: 356, 358, 359, 361
quantum superposition56, 57, 58, 132, 335; Epilogue: 356
quantum transaction9, 37, 38, 54, 55, 56, 58, 101, 102, 103, 327, 334, 335; Notes: 38; Epilogue: 352, 359
quasi-truth340
r > g constraint-schema104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117
rapid differential269, 277, 279, 295, 298, 299, 303
real goods159, 170, 193, 194, 196, 197, 198, 200, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 216, 217, 218, 220, 221, 224, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 239, 240, 245, 280, 286, 302, 312, 314, 316, 317, 318, 319, 321, 324; Notes: 231
real patterns5, 23, 24, 33, 92, 93, 329, 330, 331
realism9, 15, 16, 23, 24, 54, 56, 92, 93, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 134, 135, 136, 155, 157, 158, 171
realism of freedom234, 262
reason63, 77, 80, 93, 98, 123, 124, 125, 126, 128, 138, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 164, 168, 169, 170, 184, 192, 195, 198, 199, 214, 217, 236, 237, 238, 241, 242, 243, 246, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 260, 261, 264, 271, 281, 292, 296, 297, 306, 311, 337; Notes: 170, 236, 393, 394, 395; Epilogue: 354
reciprocal causation79
reciprocity as exposure240
reclaiming289, 290, 322
reconstruction189, 192, 194, 207, 223, 276, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 299, 318, 320, 322
recurrent constraint-profile118, 119, 133
reef-scale AI system169, 198
reflexivity3, 93, 98, 104, 117, 121, 122, 128, 129, 195, 218; Authorship account: 406
regime11, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 45, 46, 71, 74, 78, 80, 96, 105, 110, 112, 113, 114, 115, 123, 128, 131, 134, 137, 141, 147, 148, 150, 157, 158, 159, 162, 166, 168, 171, 173, 174, 175, 178, 179, 180, 181, 183, 184, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 237, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 265, 266, 267, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 279, 280, 281, 282, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 324, 342, 343; Notes: 193; Authorship account: 406; Case Regimes table: 323; Living in a World of Relations: 345
regime as moral machine210, 211, 244, 246, 280, 281, 283, 300, 308, 311
regime attunement175, 221, 222, 295, 296
regime of correction158, 159, 160
regime-centered explanation162, 173, 174, 178, 191
regime-scaled universality253, 255, 256, 257, 259, 293, 307, 314, 321
reiteration5, 6, 7, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 32, 33, 34, 35, 53, 72, 73, 96, 101, 103, 112, 113, 130, 131, 134, 135, 241, 333, 342; Notes: 87
relation1, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 21, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 43, 53, 57, 58, 59, 61, 72, 79, 104, 111, 119, 121, 131, 134, 140, 150, 151, 152, 156, 160, 161, 172, 206, 207, 208, 210, 212, 213, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 228, 229, 230, 231, 233, 235, 237, 238, 239, 244, 245, 248, 257, 258, 259, 260, 270, 290, 295, 302, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 346, 347; Epilogue: 350, 351, 353, 354, 358, 360; Notes: 392; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 399; Living in a World of Relations: 345
relational knowledge156, 157, 170, 171
relational normativity207, 208
relational persistence339
relational personhood162
relational self163, 343, 346
relations relate relations1, 327, 328, 330, 332, 333, 335, 337, 338, 339, 341, 347; Notes: 327; Epigraph: 327; Reproduced AI exchange: 399; Living in a World of Relations: 345
relativistic transactional interpretation8, 9, 37, 38, 54, 55, 56, 101, 102, 103, 334; Notes: 38, 392, 393, 395, 396; Epilogue: 352, 353, 359, 361; Reproduced AI exchange: 400
repair152, 174, 176, 177, 178, 186, 190, 192, 194, 203, 211, 219, 221, 227, 228, 229, 230, 232, 241, 243, 244, 245, 246, 248, 249, 265, 266, 271, 274, 275, 276, 279, 281, 282, 286, 287, 289, 290, 291, 292, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 301, 305, 306, 308, 309, 312, 313, 317, 318, 319, 321; Living in a World of Relations: 345
representation5, 54, 57, 63, 76, 78, 79, 83, 95, 138, 139, 143, 147, 148, 149, 153, 155, 156, 157, 158, 160, 164, 165, 166, 167, 171, 172, 174, 176, 186, 191, 193, 194, 201, 213, 217, 247, 282, 311, 312, 340; Notes: 165
reproduction23, 25, 71, 72, 74, 105, 108, 117, 213, 224, 225
residual potential25
resolution3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 29, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 43, 47, 56, 58, 77, 85, 118, 144, 145, 210, 212, 242, 278, 329, 332, 333, 334; Epilogue: 354, 358; Notes: 394
resonance9, 10, 101, 114, 228, 316, 327, 334
responsibility1, 115, 137, 142, 156, 157, 159, 160, 162, 163, 166, 168, 170, 173, 174, 177, 180, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 191, 193, 197, 198, 200, 201, 205, 207, 209, 210, 211, 212, 215, 220, 221, 222, 223, 227, 230, 231, 234, 241, 242, 244, 246, 247, 252, 255, 259, 260, 263, 265, 266, 267, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 284, 285, 286, 287, 290, 292, 294, 295, 297, 299, 300, 302, 303, 304, 305, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 318, 320, 321, 322, 324, 342, 343; Reproduced AI exchange: 401; Authorship account: 405, 406; Case Regimes table: 323
responsibility architecture274, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 308
responsiveness across unequal timescales193, 227, 247, 248, 282, 288, 298, 299, 311
retention with transformation26, 27, 28, 29
retentive stabilization21, 22, 163, 241
reticulate evolutionary history82, 83
retrocausality103; Notes: 38
reversibility, chiasm and écart337
reversible correction198, 199
rhythmic metastability74
Riedlian burden99, 100, 113, 119, 120, 121, 126, 127
rights-by-property236, 237, 238, 239, 324
scale equivalence3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 31, 32, 35, 41, 42, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 57, 58, 59, 60, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 83, 84, 91, 92, 93, 95, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 109, 114, 115, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 123, 127, 128, 129, 130, 135; Notes: 35
scale invariance3, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 57, 59, 60, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 72, 82, 87, 91, 98, 100, 101, 102, 103, 109, 118, 119, 120, 121, 129
scale-free and small-world network structure85, 91, 108, 109
science2, 35, 51, 63, 64, 68, 76, 78, 89, 90, 92, 98, 104, 117, 123, 125, 126, 132, 135, 136, 140, 340
score becomes the gate179, 180, 280, 311, 312
second law of thermodynamics17, 18, 19, 70, 71, 93, 116
selection5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 22, 23, 24, 26, 32, 34, 38, 41, 44, 51, 55, 56, 57, 58, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 73, 78, 81, 82, 85, 86, 89, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 113, 116, 118, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 130, 131, 134, 139, 140, 147, 151, 153, 161, 175, 180, 186, 193, 198, 207, 208, 209, 210, 214, 216, 217, 218, 220, 222, 226, 227, 229, 233, 235, 237, 239, 241, 242, 244, 250, 254, 260, 266, 267, 275, 276, 277, 278, 280, 281, 284, 290, 291, 292, 294, 295, 297, 299, 305, 308, 309, 310, 312, 315, 319, 321, 329, 332, 335; Epilogue: 356; Authorship account: 405, 406
selection environments217, 218, 220, 241, 260, 261, 291, 297, 299, 305, 309, 310, 315, 319, 321
selection without selector55, 56, 102
selective coupling of scales11, 12
self, the, as achieved continuity157, 161, 162, 163, 164, 167, 168, 169, 170, 193, 196, 198, 208, 209, 222, 304, 315, 316, 336, 337, 339, 341, 343, 346; Epilogue: 351, 353; Reproduced AI exchange: 400
self-aware cultural evolution260, 261, 291, 310, 319
self-maintenance threshold for stakes157, 167, 168, 197, 198
self-organization1, 12, 13, 17, 19, 22, 56, 71, 76, 91, 92, 107, 108, 109, 122, 168, 277, 328
self-organized criticality91, 92
self-taught amateurismAuthorship account: 403, 404
semiosis80
sense-making101, 156, 165, 166, 210, 211, 218, 222, 229, 230, 233, 248, 250, 260, 270, 279, 280, 288, 298, 321; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 399, 401
sensorimotor contingencies156
serendipitous innovation97
shared and plural control171, 172, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 257, 258
sigmoid adoption curve85, 86, 96
situatedness2, 27, 28, 101, 124, 127, 147, 164, 221, 222, 223, 226, 290, 295, 302, 313
society of occasions115, 332, 333
somatic marker164, 165; Reproduced AI exchange: 398
somatic marker hypothesis164; Reproduced AI exchange: 398
spacetime54, 55, 56, 63, 65, 101, 102, 103; Epilogue: 352, 356, 358, 359; Notes: 393
speciesism235, 236, 237; Notes: 236
spontaneous symmetry-breaking102
stability20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 57, 58, 69, 90, 92, 105, 110, 121, 186, 230, 262, 292, 294, 320, 331
stakes140, 147, 149, 152, 157, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 175, 189, 190, 191, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 213, 258, 259, 296; Notes: 167, 199; Reproduced AI exchange: 399
standing-reserve147, 148, 170, 171
stochastic parrot143; Notes: 143; Epigraph: 143
striving-value238, 239, 240
structurally coupled155, 284, 337; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 399
structured openness10, 11, 243, 332
subjects-of-a-life236
symbolic recursion87, 88
sympoiesis302
system-level bureaucracy180, 181, 182
technical ensemble143, 144, 145, 149, 150, 151, 153, 162, 163, 172, 173
technical individual26, 27, 143, 144, 145, 150, 151, 153, 162, 283
technical individuation26, 27, 28, 32, 101, 139, 144, 145, 146, 148, 150, 151, 162, 283
technicity143, 144, 145, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 158, 162, 171, 201, 209, 221, 222, 223, 246, 262, 263, 274, 283, 284, 304, 311, 313, 316, 318
technē1, 3, 26, 27, 28, 29, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 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, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 207, 209, 213, 221, 222, 223, 225, 246, 250, 256, 261, 262, 263, 274, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 290, 291, 304, 311, 312, 313, 316, 318; Authorship account: 403, 405, 406
temporal disparity40, 45, 65, 69, 70, 74, 77, 78, 87, 90, 97, 98, 104, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111, 113, 114, 116, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 131, 134, 150, 152, 172, 189, 194, 196, 204, 209, 210, 227, 246, 247, 248, 253, 258, 270, 272, 275, 277, 282, 285, 294, 297, 298, 300, 301, 304, 306, 310, 311, 312, 321
temporal scaffolds28
temporal stabilizer112, 113, 114
tentacular thinking340
tertiary retention28, 29, 146, 147
the human is not the innocent baseline180, 181, 182, 183, 184
the laws of change3, 50, 51, 64, 71, 72, 74, 78, 87, 88, 90, 97, 98, 100, 104, 110, 111, 112, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 134, 135, 137, 140, 152, 153, 158, 171, 172, 188, 189, 191, 200, 204, 205, 206, 209, 211, 217, 220, 223, 227, 230, 235, 241, 250, 256, 257, 267, 293, 294, 304, 318, 321; Notes: 396
the measurable standing in for the real141, 142, 170, 171, 185, 186, 193, 203, 204, 218, 223, 291, 294, 309; Case Regimes table: 323
the real as resistance23, 24, 125, 127, 128, 135, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 171, 174, 185, 186, 290
the Sun is not a metric185, 186, 187, 193
the transindividual26, 28, 29, 32, 151, 152, 221, 256, 266, 274, 275, 278, 279, 280, 295, 309, 312, 315, 316, 317, 318, 321
theōrein1, 2, 3, 137, 139, 207; Notes: 2; Epigraph: 2
threshold24, 57, 59, 73, 84, 89, 120, 122, 134, 210, 229, 241, 242, 246, 247, 259, 261, 262, 269, 271, 272, 279, 281, 283, 288, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 300, 301, 305, 306, 308, 310, 311, 312, 318, 321
time9, 10, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 28, 35, 37, 48, 58, 59, 65, 69, 70, 74, 77, 78, 83, 84, 85, 87, 90, 96, 97, 98, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, 117, 118, 121, 122, 124, 131, 134, 140, 146, 150, 152, 157, 163, 171, 172, 174, 176, 186, 189, 194, 196, 197, 199, 203, 204, 207, 209, 210, 217, 227, 229, 230, 233, 241, 242, 245, 246, 247, 248, 250, 253, 258, 260, 261, 262, 263, 265, 269, 270, 272, 275, 277, 282, 284, 285, 287, 288, 290, 291, 292, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 300, 301, 304, 306, 310, 311, 312, 318, 321, 334, 336; Notes: 10, 38, 133, 392; Epilogue: 352, 353, 354, 356, 357, 358, 359
tool to milieu to regime137, 150, 151, 173, 178, 191, 201, 205, 283, 284, 285
top-down constraint100, 119, 120, 121
trans-disciplinary synthesis94, 101, 121, 127
trans-perspectival invariant127, 128, 135, 136; Notes: 396
transactional interpretation (TI)54, 55, 56, 103, 334
transduction6, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 32, 43, 45, 47, 77, 144, 145, 226, 242, 290, 316, 327, 332; Authorship account: 405
triage175, 192, 194, 207, 210, 256, 259, 260, 262, 269, 271, 272, 276, 277, 278, 279, 284, 285, 288, 291, 292, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 303, 308, 312, 318, 319, 320
trivial versus ontological possibility40; Notes: 40, 356
trust171, 172, 173, 176, 178, 188, 194, 228, 229, 232, 233, 245, 246, 250, 260, 270, 280, 281, 282, 287, 290, 296, 308, 311, 313, 321; Living in a World of Relations: 345
truthmaker requirementNotes: 395; Epilogue: 361
umwelt222, 249, 284, 311, 318
uncertainty principle57
understanding139, 140, 146, 147, 151, 153, 157, 162, 178, 186, 203, 336, 338; Notes: 2, 143; Reproduced AI exchange: 397, 400
universality in the physicists’ sense91
universalizability — viability of common architectures251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 267, 281, 293, 307, 321
value27, 90, 115, 124, 152, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 175, 185, 189, 190, 195, 197, 198, 208, 209, 210, 211, 216, 217, 218, 220, 227, 228, 229, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 238, 239, 240, 253, 259, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 270, 280, 284, 285, 290, 299, 304, 314, 316, 317, 321, 346; Notes: 165, 170, 263; Reproduced AI exchange: 397, 398, 399, 400
value continuity169, 170
viability36, 39, 43, 44, 48, 78, 79, 156, 157, 163, 167, 168, 197, 198, 199, 200, 229, 232, 239, 246, 247, 301; Notes: 199; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 399, 400, 401
viability–measure distinction198, 199; Notes: 199
viable agency229, 234, 243, 250, 253, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 266, 267, 290, 297, 298, 309; Living in a World of Relations: 345
view from nowhere127, 218, 221, 222; Notes: 393, 394; Epilogue: 355, 356
vulnerability157, 163, 164, 166, 167, 168, 172, 216, 228, 229, 230, 238, 240, 243, 246, 248, 261, 265, 272, 280, 288, 307, 311, 328; Notes: 73, 167; Living in a World of Relations: 345
warrant190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 197, 199
wavefunction collapse8, 9, 55, 57, 102
wave–particle duality93
world-coupling under consequence139, 140, 153, 155, 157, 158, 159, 160, 163, 164, 166, 169, 185, 186; Reproduced AI exchange: 397
world-making1, 135, 137, 138, 139, 188, 189, 190, 200, 202, 205, 207, 209, 210, 211, 218, 219, 227, 233, 240, 246, 248, 250, 252, 257, 258, 260, 261, 262, 263, 265, 266, 267, 270, 272, 273, 274, 279, 280, 281, 282, 287, 289, 293, 295, 296, 300, 305, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321; Reproduced AI exchange: 397, 400; Authorship account: 406
world-making imperative188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 194, 195, 196, 198, 199, 200, 206, 207, 211, 219, 224, 229, 230, 239, 241, 242, 243, 247, 248, 250, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 269, 271, 272, 274, 281, 287, 288, 290, 293, 294, 295, 297, 298, 299, 300, 303, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 316, 317, 319, 320, 321, 322; Living in a World of Relations: 345
worldhood155, 156; Authorship account: 405; Reproduced AI exchange: 398
writing146, 147, 150, 151; Authorship account: 405, 406
zero-force evolutionary law41, 42
Zipf’s law86, 87