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mental disorders, conceptual shifts

mental subagents

Meyers, Ronald

mind-reading system

Minsky, Marvin
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2

modifiability, sentencing and
6.1
,
7.1

Moniz, Egas

monogamy
4.1

Montague, Read
3.1
,
5.1
,
7.1
,
7.2

Montaigne, Michel de
5.1
,
7.1

motion

aftereffect illusion

blindness

motor input

Mugabe, President Robert

Müller, Johannes Peter

multistable cube

Le mythe de Sisyphe
(Camus)

narcotics
see
drugs

Nathans, Jeremy

natural selection

neocortex

nerves

nervous system, greater

neurobiology

neuroimaging

neurological disorders

neurons
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1

activity

specialization
4.1
,
4.2

see also
preprogramming, neural

neuroplasticity

neuroscience
1.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1
,
7.2

neurotransmitter system
7.1
,
7.2

New Essays on Human Understanding
(Liebniz)

Newton, Isaac

number forms
,

observation
2.1
,
7.1

Occam’s razor

odor, influence of

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
(Kesey)

opium

orbitofrontal cortex

organic disorders

Orgel, Leslie

The Origin of Species
(Darwin)
1.1
,
4.1

overlapping domains (in the brain)
,

parasomnias

Parkinson’s disease

Parks, Kenneth
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4

paroxetine

Pascal, Blaise

Paul, Leslie

Pelham, Brett

Pennebaker, James

perception

conscious

‘petite perceptions’

of time

unanchored

pheronomes

phrenology

physical state, of body

Pink Floyd

Pliny the Elder

Pope, Alexander

practical reasoners

pramipexole

predictions

predisposition, genetic

prefrontal cortex

preprogramming, neural

beauty and

see also
genetics

priming

The Principles of Psychology
(James)

prisons

procedural memory

progress, human

prosopagnosia

pseudohallucinations

psychiatric disorders

psychiatry

psychoanalysis

psychogenic disorders
6.1
,
6.2

psychology, evolutionary
4.1
,
4.2

psychophysics

Ptolemy
,

quantum mechanics
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3

quantum physics
6.1
,
7.1

racism
5.1
,
5.2

radio theory

Raine, Adrian
6.1
,
7.1

Ramachandran, Vilayanur

rational vs emotional system
5.1
,
5.2

realities, different

real-time feedback, imaging

reason

practical reasoners

rational vs emotional system
5.1
,
5.2

recidivism

reductionism
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4

rehabilitation
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
7.1

Reichenbach, Hans

Repin, Ilya

reptilian brain

retrospective fabrication of stories

risperidone

Robinson, Eugene

robots (artificial intelligence)
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2

Ryan, Nolan
,

Sapolsky, Robert
6.1
,
7.1

Sarma, Karthik

Scarpa, Angela
6.1
,
7.1

schizophrenia

secrets

self-knowledge
7.1
,
7.2

self-reflection
6.1
,
6.2

sensory factors

blendings (synesthesia)

feedback
2.1
,
2.2

input
2.1
,
2.2

substitution

sentencing

evidence-based

modifiability and
6.1
,
7.1

serotonin
7.1
,
7.2

sertraline

Seward, William

Shermer, Michael

Sherrington, Sir Charles

Shestov, Lev

Shiller, Robert

Siderius Nuncius
(Galileo)

Singer, Wolf

sleepwalking
6.1
,
6.2

smell
4.1
,
4.2

social factors

attachment

interaction

policy
7.1
,
7.2

The Society of Mind
(Minsky)

society-of-mind
5.1
,
5.2

somnambulism

homicidal

soul

specialization
5.1
,
5.2

neural
4.1
,
4.2

speed

Sperry, Roger

split-brain patients
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
6.2

steroid rage

stories, retrospective fabrication

Stroop interference

Suomi, Stephen

synesthesia

spatial sequence
,

Tacitus

team of rivals framework

artificial intelligence
4.1
,
5.1

brain hemispheres
5.1
,
5.2

consciousness, role of

democracy of mind

dual-process model

Mel Gibson (example)

overlapping domains
5.1
,
5.2

rational vs emotional system
5.1
,
5.2

retrospective fabrication of stories

robustness

secrets

society-of-mind
5.1
,
5.2

Ulysses contracts
5.1
,
7.1

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