by Bor, Daniel
loss
motor
neurons and
problems with
resources
rudimentary forms of
short-term
strategies with. See also Strategies
structured
superior. See also Tammet, Daniel
tests
thought and
Mental illness. See also Anxiety;
Asperger’s Syndrome; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder;
Autism; Bipolar disorder;
Depression; Obsessive
compulsive disorder;
Schizophrenia
brain abnormalities and
consciousness and
pandemic of
political neglect of
reinforcing by habit
stress and
Mental retardation
Mental states
Michelson, Albert
Miller, George
Mind. See also Brain
conscious. See Consciousness
unconscious. See Unconsciousness
Mind-body duality
Mirror-recognition test
Monkeys
Monti, Martin
Moore, Christopher
Moral questions, consciousness and
Morley, Edward
Motivations. See also Drives; Goals
Movement
behavior and
senses and
MRI. See also Diffusion tensor imaging; fMRI
Multiple personality disorder
Music, structures and
Mutations rates of
Nagel, Thomas
Nash, John: paranoid delusions of
Natural selection. See also Evolution
Neglect
Nematode worm (Caenorhabditis elegans)
Networks
brain regions, connected in. See also Prefrontal parietal network
diverse forms of, with similar characteristics
fungal
informational/knowledge
neuronal
nodes in a
theories of consciousness and
Neurochemicals. See Neurotransmitters
Neurology
Neurons
activity of
artificial
characteristics of
communication by
competition between
computing by
connection of
consciousness and
cortex and
in FFA
flexibility in
highways, integrity of
influence of
information and
landscape of
local
machinery of
networks of
number of
unconscious
waves/rhythms of
Neurophysiology
Neuroscience
cognitive
consciousness and
future of
imprecise nature of
Neurotransmitters
changes in
dysfunctional
New Scientist
Newton, Isaac
Nikolov, Stanislav
Nonlinguistic beings, consciousness and
Nonphysical, consciousness and. See also Mary and knowing what it is like; Mind-body duality
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Octopuses
brain of
cognitive skills of
Orangutans
brain of
Orbitofrontal cortex
Organisms
complex
multicellular
viral gate-crashing of
Origins of life
Over-consciousness
Owen, Adrian
Pain, handling
Panic disorder. See also Anxiety
Parallel architecture. See also Computers; Networks
Paranoid delusions
Paravicini, Derek
Parietal cortex. See also Prefrontal parietal network
Parietal lobes, complex thought and
Parkinson’s disease
Patil, Sandeep
Patterns. See Structure
Pavlov, Ivan
Penfield, Ruth
Penfield, Wilder
Peppard, Paul
Perception
Performance
improving
(Persistent) vegetative state (PVS)
coma and
consciousness and
definition of
diagnostic tests of
thalamus and
zolpidem and
Personality
changes due to brain damage
frontal lobes and
orbitofrontal cortex and
problems
Phillips, Patrick
Philosophy
category mistake, non-physical consciousness
consciousness, knowing what it is like
consciousness, non-physical nature
mind-body duality
non-computable aspect of feelings/sensations
non-computable aspect of meaning
science versus
Physics
Planck, Max
Plants, information processing by
Posit-Science
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Prabhakaran, Vivek
Pratt, Nikki
Prefrontal cortex. See also Prefrontal parietal network
abnormal activity in
consciousness and
damage to
Prefrontal parietal network
ADHD and
boosting
brain-scanning
chunking and
consciousness and
control by
damage to
sequences and
working memory and
Primordial life
ideas stored in
Programs. See Computers
Propofol
Protein
DNA and
Psychiatric conditions. See Mental illness
Psychology
of consciousness
of unconsciousness
Quantum mechanics
Ranganath, Charan
Rapid eye movement (REM)
Raven’s Progressive Matrices, IQ test
Recovery from brain damage
diagnostic markers for
Recurrent processing model
Rensink, Ronald
Replication. See Reproduction
Reproduction
asexual
bacterial
self-replication
selfish
sexual
survival and
Reticular formation
Ritalin
RNA
DNA and
Robots
Rosenthal, David
Royal Society, The
Russell, Eric Frank
Ryle, Gilbert
Sahraie, Arash
Salander, Lisbeth
Sarri, Margarita
Savage, Cary
Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue
Schiavo, Michael
Schiavo, Terri
Schiff, Nicholas
Schizophrenia
delusions/hallucinations and
glutamate and
meditation and
Ritalin and
treatment for
working memory and
Science
evolution and
experimental failure and
philosophy versus
technology and
Searle, John
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
Self-consciousness. See also Mirror-recognition test
awkward
Self-recognition
Self-replication
Selfish gene
Senses
Sensory features
Sensory input
Sequences. See also Digit Sequences; Information
chunking. See also Chunking
digit
mathematical
patterned/structured
prefrontal parietal network and
unstructured
Seth, Anil
Sexual reproduction. See also Reproduction
Sherashevski, Solomon
Shiv, Baba
Signals
chemical
neuronal, see Neurons
physical
sensory
Simons, Daniel
Simons, Jon
Simpsons, The
Skills
arithmetic
chunks of
cognitive
language
mental
motor
sensory
social
verbal
Skinner, Burrhus Frederic (B. F.)
Sleep
consciousness and
deprivation
mental illness and
problems
Sleep apnea
Social decisions, consciousness and
Social ranking
Social situations
Son Rise Program
Space Willies, The (Russell)
Spatial information
Speech. See also Grammar; Language
Sperling, George
Stability
chaos and
Star Trek
Stem cell therapy
Stewart, Ian
Stimuli. See also Digit sequences; Sensory input; Spatial information
Strategies. See also Chunking; Learning; Memory
discounting
evolutionary
Stress
amygdala and
C. elegans sexual reproduction preference under
consciousness and
mutation rates in bacteria and
prefrontal cortex and
mental illness and
Strokes
Structure. See also Chunking; Chunks
autism and
biological value in seeking
detecting
exploiting
hunger for
music and
searching for
self-organizing
toxic thought and
Subjectivity
Subliminal messages
Superstitious beliefs
Survival
machines
reproduction and
Synesthesia
Tammet, Daniel
Tang, Yi-Yuan
Technology
Telepathy, technological equivalent of
Temporal lobes
Terrace, Herbert
Thalamus
consciousness and
vegetative state and
Theories of consciousness
Thomas, Robert
Thought
aberrant/upsetting structures of
atoms of
brain and
complex
conscious
decisions and
experience without
higher-order
memory and
unconscious
Thought experiments. See also Philosophy
Tononi, Giulio
Tools, adaptive use of
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
Turing’s Nemesis
Tversky, Amos
Unconsciousness
anesthesia and
automatic habits and
calculation and
cause and effect and
chunks and
consciousness and
control by
Self-consciousness
decision making and
information and
learning and
understanding and
Understanding
conscious
consciousness and
performance and
unconsciousness and
Unipolar depression. See Depression
Vegetative state. See Persistent Vegetative State
Vicary, James
Vision. See also Visual cortex
blindsight and
color
peripheral
Visual cortex
blindsight and
color-processing region (V4)
consciousness and
neurons and
Wallis, Terry
Waroquier, Laurent
Wechsler Intelligence Scales, IQ test
Weiskrantz, Larry
Wetware
“What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” (Nagel)
Wiener, Norbert
Wiltshire, Stephen
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Woolf, Virginia
Working memory
ADHD and
analyzing/manipulating
attention and
boosting
capacity for
chunking and
consciousness and
diminished
flexible
information and
limits of
meditation and
objects of
overloading
prefrontal parietal network and
schizophrenia and
spatial
