2

2001 A Space Odyssey 164

A

alternate realities

ancient astronauts 177

conspiracy theories 186

flat earth 186

altruism 47

anaesthetics 76

animism 25,108

anthropic principle 221

apples 217

Aristotle 61, 109

B

baby, development of 151

Barthes, Roland 169

beans, movement of 63

bees 45,73

behaviourism 138,144

Bell’s Theorum 103

bird intelligence

African grey parrot 43

corvids 40,140,149

Eurasian magpie 50

zebra finch 142

bluestreak cleaner wrasse 50,161

brain soup 174

brainstem theory of consciousness 144

Broca's brain 146,241

C

cancer 197

Chalmers, David 116,170

cherry blossom 114

chronostasis 135

clever Hans 42

climate change 185

combination problem 121,124

computing

artificial intelligence 128

quantum computers 213

screen scraper 126

supercomputer 130

consciousness

purpose of 211

radical emergence of 98

cults 180

cultural theory 168

D

Darwin, Charles

circumnutating 62

continuity of species 37,224

fool’s experiment 67

gemmules 193

root brain hypothesis 60

theory of evolution 36,190

De Waal, Frans 52,57,224

Dennett, Daniel 115

Descartes, René 34,112

dolphins

communication 54

development of young 152

dolphin house 53

double-slit experiment 83

dreaming 141,204

dualism 14

Dussotour,Audrey 74

E

Eastern philosophy 44

Einstein, Albert 80,85

encephalisation quotient 33

entropy 212

epigenetics 195

evolution 218

transition markers 162

executive function,of brain 150,158

F

focused attention 159

free-energy 212

frontal cortex 146,150

functionalism 138

G

Gagliano, Monica 70

Gaia theory 216

gendered nouns 168

Goff, Philip 222

Goodall, Jane 48

grandmother neuron 137

Greek philosophy 109

Griffin,Donald R 45

H

habituation 69,74

hard problem of consciousness 116,170

Herculano-Houzel, Suzana 22,173

homoeostasis 211

homunculus (little self) 118

hydraencephaly 146

I

idealism 15,91,96,108

impressionism 210

intelligent design 189,194

intention 195

K

Kornfield, Jack 200

L

Lamarck, theory of evolution 192

language

linguistic theory 166

in other species 52

learning 69,74

M

Mary's room 115

materialism (and physicalism) 15

Matloff, Gregory 216

measurement problem 82

medieval, concept of animal minds 35

memory 69,151

Mimosa pudica 70,74

mirror test 50,160

Mithen, Steven 182

monism 108

Morgan, C. Lloyd 39

Morgan’s Canon 40,43,139

multiverse 94,104

mycorrhizal fungi 66

Myers, Natasha 68

mystics and mysticism 198

mythologies 170

N

Nagel, Thomas 114,145

neurogastroenterology 72

neurons in human brain 174

New Age 196

Nobel prize 81,122,195

O

observer effect 82,92,104

octopuses 41,71

P

panpsychism, definition and history of107

peas,movement of 63

perfection, quest for 194

photosynthesis 100

Planck, Max 81,95

Plato, theory of forms 110

primate intelligence

Ayumu 176

baboons, in Abyssinia 38

Jenny 36

Koko 51

macaques 154

Santino 150

Q

quantum biology 99

quantum physics

entanglement 90,103

superposition 222

tunnelling 99

R

randomness 191

rats 142,148

rats, hopeful 219

religion, origins of 183

rockcress, photoreceptors 64

Romanes, Georges 39,48,82

Russel Wallace, Alfred 191

S

Sagan, Carl 177

Saussure, Ferdinand de 166

Schrödinger’s cat 56

semantics, describing non-humans 46

semantics, for non-humans 68

semiotics 166

separate spheres 38

Seth, Anil 107,137,160

Sheldrake, Rupert 216

signifiers and signifieds 166

Simard, Suzanne 65

simulation hypothesis 94

Singer, Peter 125

sleep 141

sleep, plants 76

Slime mould 12,73,101127,149,161,216,225

social media 186

Solms, Mark 144,212

split-brain function 122

Star Trek 48,95

step function 171

subconscious 153

subjective experience 117,204

Sumerians 178

symbolic thinking 183

T

time-lapse sequences 63

Tlingit people 178

U

unconscious action 153

unlimited associative learning (UAL) 149

V

vision 134,154

vitalism 109

vivisection 34, 44

volitional star hypothesis 216

W

war

Gombe chimp war 48

nuclear 184

Wheeler, John 95

Wood Wide Web 65

Z

zero 43

zombie, philosophical 151