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Index 488devil, nature of, 334, 342Dewitt, B. S., 468Di of Antus, 188dialectics of dreams, 345diamond crystals, 125dice playing, 45, 48dichotic listening tests, 14, 466dichotomy, 158; between logic and belief, 314Dickens, Charles, 179, 182differentiation of personoids, 302digestion, 8, 361digital computers, 56, 59, 61, 64; capacity to think of, 368digital model, 97dimensionality, 298, 309Diophantus, 150, 153direct evidence, 80direct perception, 76direction of fit, 362, 369Dirksen, Lee, 109-13, 115discrete state machine, 65discrimination tests, 428disembodied brains, 202-12, 217-31, 473Dizzard, C., 269-75DNA, 80, 88, 89, 94, 127, 128, 142, 404, 406, 458; interactionsof RNA and, 274; recombinant, 271; as template, 242Dobb, Professor, 296, 299-317dogs. 9, 31, 273; capacity for thought of, 32; in tentionalityascribed to, 365; and Turing test, 85dolphins, 9. 253domino-chain network, 194-95Doney, Willis, 474doom, recognition of, 113, 115doors: automatic, 358; of brain, 452Doppelganger, 327, 413, 474double bind, 325double blind experiments, 480"double-take," 20Douglas firs, 121downward causality, 196, 197, 343dreamed people, 345-48, 350, 406, 462dreams, 8, 96, 98, 250; "Am I My Body's Dream?," 346;Descartes on, 350-51; without dreamers, 351; notremembered, 412dream-writing machines, 458Dreyfus, Hubert, 373, 471drinking, 255drives, global coherence of, 386dualism, 268, 343, 371-72, 381, 383-88, 407, 476, 477, 478Du Bois-Reymond, Emil, 36duplicate people, 474-5duplication, distinction between simulation and, 369-71duty, 341Dykes, Robert, 478ears: hearing without, 225; sound hitting, 438Earth, 32, 458; communication from Andromeda to, 137-38;cultural riches of, 259; duplicate, 231; eternal course of, 340;evolution of life on, 460; finite size of, 130: life on, 125;spaceship link between Moon and, 261; stable forms on, 125;teleportation from Mars to, 3, 4, 7Eastern philosophy, 341Eccles, John, 477echolocation, 393ecology, 140economics, 140ecosystems, destruction of, 41ecstasy, 95, 348EDAN, 310, 311EDNA, 291, 297Edwards, Jonathan, 329 ego(s), 8, 12; merging of, 307egocentric point of view, 410 eigenstates, 43-44; random, 45Einstein, Albert, 37, 45, 48, 196, 413, 458; vsbook, 442Einstein book, 434-45, 450, 452, 459electric sparks, 126electrocuted person, 406electrodes, 35electroencephalograms, 270"electronic brains," 372electrons, 213,292:influence of thoughton,195; minusculecapering of, 291; path of, 193; weaving the universe, 318,458elements, 125ELIZA, 251, 254, 469Elizabeth II, Queen of England, 144Elliot, John, 137embedded dialogue, 434-37embryonic development, 131, 139emergence: of person, 86, 352; of properties, 144; of selfconsciousness,41-2, 468emotions, 11, 450; appeals to, 114; attribution of, 83; asautomatic side effects to thinking, 81; avoidance ofreferences to, 81; and intellect, 84, 107; and machines, 60; ofpersonoids, 302, 305; size irrelevant to experience of, 289empathy, 114; vs. emulation, 412; see also mapping empiricalquestions, I Iemulation, 56, 379-80, 412, 477encephalitis, 482encoding of knowledge, 171, 176 "end in view," 134energy, 126, 127; matter as, 401; of system, 39 engineering, 54,56English, understanding, 355-60, 363-67, 37879,405English subsystem, 359, 360, 379engulfing: of mind by mind, 375; of program by human brain,359, 364enlightenment, 333, 342, 463; meditative, 273 74entelechies, 144entities, differential survival of, 132entropy, 39envy of God, 329enzymes, 89epiphenomenalism, 388epistemology, 37, 415-29; circular, 39-40, 42; personoid, 310Ericsson, K. Anders, 471errors: of conclusion, 62-63; first-order vs. second-order, 277;of functioning, 62-63Escher, M. C., 156, 174, 221esse, 299essence, 122; of hurricanehood, 78; of living, 113; of mental,364-65, 370eternal life, 328, 329eternal punishment, 317eternity, 120ethics: and amorality, 340; of research, 275-76: temporal vs.transcendental, 313euphemistic synonyms, 114Everett, Hugh, III, 45-46, 49, 458, 468evidence, evaluation of, 201evil, 462; concept of, of personoids, 308, 312; illumination of,120; and punishment, 329; as suffering, 333evil temptations, 322, 328, 333evolution, 88, 121, 128-29, 199, 460, 468, 477; of ant colonies,173; based on replicators other