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Index 497"quantum water faucet," 43quarks, 458question, unasking of, 162Quine, Willard V. 0., 466rabbits, 121, 268radio: brain linked to body by, 218, 459; brain hemispheresconnected by, 205-7; communication via, 137-38radioactive decay, 38random choices, 48random events, 38random number generator, 67randomness, 106, 115, 166; of ants, 170, 172; of molecules, 168rain drops, 124rainstorms: information processing by, 371; simulation of, 370Raphael, Bertram, 471, 476rationality, 306, 477readout of brain, 282real world, interpretation of, 300realism, 39, 107reality, 456; bifurcation of, 338; consciousness as ultimate, 39;physical, 37; representation and, 94; of superpositions, 44realization, distinction between program and, 369, 372reason, 23; emotions at odds with, 305reasoning, 343rebirth, 244recognition, 9recombinant DNA, 271records, 149, 431-33, 439, 440, 448-52Red King, 349reducibility of experience, objection to, 399reductholism, 190reductio ad absurdum, 76, 212, 458-9reductionism, 35, 40112, 93, 144, 159-62, 182, 190, 196-97,391-93, 397-99,472,473, 478; vs. holism, 162; physiologicaland biological, 3637; translatability of holism and, 196reflection, 193reincarnation, 5relativity: of perceptions, 74, 290, 292, 297, 299, 301, 302;theory of, 37, 145, 196; of time scales, 145religion, 334, 341 repertoire, innate, 31 replication, 113replicators, 127-31; cultural, 143-44; software, 145; survival of,122representation, 94; internal display of, 266; ofknowledge in antcolony, 170 representational power, 199representational systems, 192, 281, 379, 382, 411, 473; of bats,412; relationship between facts and, 396; of soul-free objects,386repression, 12reproduction, 8reproductive act, 109Reps, Paul, 45, 467"Reset" button, 295resistance of axons, 435restaurants, stories about, 354, 359retarded people, 107retroactive causality, 197revelation, 311reverberation, 437revolution, 342; in scientific world view, 68rewards, 107Riddle of the Universe, 269-76"right stuff." 365 497right and wrong, distinction between, 339-40Ringle, Martin, 471, 477Rip Van Winkle, 482ripples, 44rivers, 120RNA, 274, 458Robbins, Tom, 295robots, 87, 96, 471; and artificial intelligence, 362-65;autonomous, 255-65; canned sentences intoned by, 92;computer control of, 21; computers dreaming they are, 318;consciousness of, 8-10, 13: functional and intentional statesof, 392; of oneself, 234-41; point of view of, 268;programmed for self-preservation, 123; self-protective, 266rocks, 125; attribution of intention to, 120; molded by free playof physical forces, 120Rokeach, Milton, 482romanticism, II "rooms" of brain, 452Rorty, Amelie 0., 393, 466, 473, 474Rorty, Richard, 478Rosenblith, W., 473Rosser, J. B., 58rotating frame, 196"round one," 441 R2D2, 87Rucker, Rudy, 253-68rules of behavior, 65-66Rumbaugh, Duane, 470Rumelhart, David, 473rumors, 287rusty hinges, oiling of, 453ruthlessness of spirit, 120Saccheri, Gerolamo, 374Sacks, Oliver, 482sadness, simulation of, 83Sagan, Carl, 35, 39Sainter, 299saints, difference between sinners and, 333Salinger, J. D., 406salt crystals, 125salvation, 328, 332, 334Sanborn, Mr., 426-29Sands, Matthew, 467Sandy, 69-92Sanford, David Hawley, 231, 232-41, 475Santa Claus, 4, 256Satori, 276Saunders, M. D., 481Savage, C. Wade, 471Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue, 470Savodnick, I., 472scale, narrative problem of, 459"scattering" questions off target mind, 79 scent, 121Schank, Roger, 354-56, 358, 367, 362-63, 373, 469, 473, 477Schopenhauer, Arthur, 42Schreiber, Flora Rheta, 479Schrodinger, Erwin, 38, 45.Schrodinger s cat, 38, 45, 46science, 7, 31, 319, 457; and accounts of consciousness, 11;extending familiar concepts,77; hard, rigorous methods of,460; materialism in, 34; philosophy of, 37, 93; secretsrevealed by, 8; and spirit, 122; as storytelling, 460science fiction, 74, 465scientific induction, 61, 63scientific method, 120scientific world view, 6; revolution in, 68Scriabin, Alexander, 455