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