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IndexAbelson, Robert P:, 473, 477abstract categories. 31, 77abstract formal products, 95abstract machines, 62abstract manifestation of person, 76abstract mechanisms, 200-201abstract nature of "hurricaneness," 77abstract objects, 7abstract patterns, 78abstract structure, 78abstract summary of global qualities, 199abstraction, 97accountability, 309; in face of uncertainty,312accuracy of replication, 129accusative case, 408Achilles, 149-91, 200; in Jardin du Luxembourg,430-57"Achilles book," 444-55Acker, Sir Donald, 297acoustico-retrieval, 152acoustics, 138 acquired tastes, 428 active signals, 180active symbols, 176-78, 180, 265Adam, 126, 340, 346ADAN, 309-16adding machines, 358, 361; information processing by, 371ADNA, 309-10, 312afterlife, 328, 383; punishment in, 322aggression of personoids, 308aim of behavior, 134"A-kill-ease," 447Albert, Martin L., 477algae, 121Alice, 349-50"aliveness" vs. "deadness," 448"all at once" vs. "bit at a time," 432, 439, 45052Allah, 30 alligator, 434allusions, 114alphawaves, 112alternate life-support media, 145altruism, 142, 228aluminum beetle, 111ambiguous sentences, 14Americans in Viet Nam war, 114amino acids, 125; naturally occurring, 126ammonia, 126amoebae, 121amusement park rides, 196ANAD, 309-10Analytical Engine, 63-64, 86anarchism, 260Anderson, Alan Ross, 470Anderson, Cobb, 253-63Andromeda, 137-39, 406anemone, 121anesthetic, 406angels, 333aroma, 122. 406animals: behavior of, 142: consciousness of, 9, 392 feelingsattributed to, 83, 134: having something in common with,110; language facility of, 101, methods for study of 35 Selfconcept of, 266, as survival machines, 134; seealso specific speciesanimate vs. inanimate matter, 121animation, 212-13animism, 114, 120anomalies, 462ant colonies, 146, 162-66, 168-76, 184, 192, 195,199ant trails, 165antagonisms, mutually gravitating, 306Anteater, 149-90anthropology, 41anthropocentrism, 80anthropomorphism, 112, 192antimatter, 388antimonies, 306ants, 114; individual personalities of, 335; see also ant colonies"apeness," 35apes: intentionality ascribed to, 365; language of,106, 470appetite, 395apple: eaten by Adam, 340; event of seeing, 330Arbib, Michael, 472arcana of universe, 347Arctic, climate of, 139Aristotle, 6 Armstrong, D. M., 478Arnauld, 237art of listening to fugues, 191artifacts, attribution of understanding to, 358artificial flesh, 54artificial information-processing devices, 233artificial intelligence, 87, 193, 217, 233, 269, 274,282, 343, 353-82, 465; critics of, 471-72; directions in currentresearch on, 294; and otherminds, °56; and personetics, 317;of robots, 362-65, 471; self-understanding, 412; simplicity ofsimulations in, 318; skepticism about, 69; and state oftechnology, 366-67; and systems theory, 358-62artificial sex, 309artificial signaling, 377; of feeling by machines, 60artists, 3 1Asimov, Isaac, 263assassination buffs, 462asymmetry, 305asympotic approach to sentience, 291astronauts, 142atheism: among personoids, 311; among psychiatrists, 330atomic level, 36atomic physics, 36, 39atoms, 3, 34, 39, 98, 466; and anima, 122; complex patterns of,124; envisioning of, 144; idea of being made of. 33;molecules formed from, 125: nuclei of. as hypotheticalentities, 79; quantum mechanics of, 145; spirit as restlessnessof, 120: stable pattern of, 125ATTACCA, 159Attneave, F., 473attribution: of cognitive states, 358, 366: of emotions, 83. ofintentionality,364, of understanding,358auditory chauvinism. 434auditory nerves, 232