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Index 486in, 11-12; and propagation of memes, 143; properties ofsequences in, 367; questions about, 32; read on symbol level,181, 183; reconstruction of sound in, 152; reductionist viewof, 35, 162. 391; relation between experience and, 212;relationship of ideas to, 194; research on, 217; simulationcapacity of, 141; simulation of. 363-64; spare, 22f>-31;stratified organization of, 199: structural integrity of, 449;structure and activity of, 435-36; as substrate of intelligence,90; and survival machine, 141; thinking about one's, 174;tissues of, as vehicles of information. 268: transplanting of,5-6; unique configuration of, 252; in the vat, 474; visualcortex of, 231; wind chime metaphor for, 197-98Brain-book immortality. 458brain damage, 409, 481-2 brain death, 106brain-reading machine, 416, 419-26brain state, 178, 182, 282brainstorm, 77brain-transplant thought experiments, 220, 466brainwashing, 386branchings in evolutionary tree, 87Brandenberg concerto no. 2 (Bach), 381Brccht, Gcotgc, 475bridge, game of, 7British Crown Jewels, 93brotherhood of man, 464Brown, G. E., 145Bruhler, 225bubbling up of conscious thoughts, 283Buddha Nature, 30Buddhism, 310buffer storage of incoming information, 141building blocks: letters as, 180; mathematical,298; molecular, 127, 128, 130 burial rites, 226Burns, Robert, 20butterfly, metamorphosis of caterpillar into, 401Buxtehude, Dietrich, 190bypassing of lower levels. 182C, middle, 213Cadmus, Sally, 242, 244, 251calculations, fake, 75calligraphy, 154calves, newborn, 385Calvin, William H., 193, 473cameras, 28, 29canned sentences, 92 Cantor, 396Canyon, 306Capitan, W1. H., 478Capra, Fritjof, 38capricio-deterministic trajectories 386carbon, 242carbon dioxide, 126Carroll, Lewis, 348, 444cars: attribution of understanding to, 358: engines of, 11, 381Cartesian mental substance, 371, 372Cartesian negation, 224cash registers, 75' ,Cassander. 204-9, 212`Castaneda, Hector-Neri, 467caste distribution of ants, 168-76, 178, 187, 193. 199-200Castler, 308Cat, Schrodinger's, 38, 45. 46CAT-scanning, 7catatonia, simulation of, 91categories, 192. 343; abstract, 31, 77caterpillars, 401cats, 31; and Turing test, 85Caulfield, Holder, 406causal behaviorism. 400, 401causal powers, 362, 364, 365, 367, 369, 372, 374,381; and "right stuff," 365-66causality, I96-97, 343; of brain, 374; closed loop of. 281cells, 27, 88; activity of, 35; body as colony of,134; first living,131; physiology of, 36; proliferation of, 119; replacement of,4centrifugal force, 196cerebroscope, see brain-reading machinechains, molecular, 125Chaitin, Gregory J., 342, 477Chase, Mr.. 426-29chauvinism, 80; auditors, 434: bio-, 351chemical messages, 200chemistry, 35, 54; of life forms, 142; life in termsof, 85; of nuclear particles, 145; and rawmaterials of life, 126Cherniak, Christopher, 269-83chess, 93, 199; computer, 55, 82, 83, 90, 136Chess Challenger VII, 114 childhood, lessons of, 386children: talking to trees by, 335; see also babies chimpanzees,10; language of, 100-8, 273, 470;self-consciousness in, 471China, experience of being, 192Chinese room thought experiment, 355-69, 371,373, 375-82, 459Chinese subsystem, 360-61 chloride ions, 125choice, 323, 336; see also free willChomsky, Noam, 106Chopin, Frederic, 32, 107, 381, 406Chopper, Nick, 236 Chris, 69-92Christian Science, 425Christianity, 57, 310chromosomes. 133 Church, Alonzo, 58Churchland, Patricia, 477, 479Churchland, Paul, 479Cinerama, 221, 238cistron. 133civilization, model of, 290 clairvoyance, 66Clark, Arthur C., 276classes: of activities. 124; formulation of, 31, 32Clecklev, Hervev Ml., 479 Clever Hans, 480cloning, 56: by Teleclone, 4, 7closed-circuit television, 20closed loop of causality, 281closed vs. open systems, 451Clossman,Cars, 468closure, 304cobbler, 466"coded" potential. 156coding of meaning, 381-82 coffee tasting, 427-28cognition, 368; simulation of, 353cognitive development, 31cognitive dissonance. 395cognitive psychology, 12-14cognitive science. 13-14,201,271,274.366,465, 470, 482coincidence, 199. 462: of levels. 183Colby, Kenneth Mi., 469collective behavior, 191Collins, Allan, 473Color, perception of, 479Columbus, Christopher, 296