change and, 373
globalization and, see globalization
culture cycle, 367–70
cumulative error, 177–79
curating, 118–19
currency, central, 41
Cushman, Fiery, 349–52
cycles, 170–73
Dalrymple, David, 218–20
DALYs (disability-adjusted life years), 206
danger, proving, 281
Darwin, Charles, 2, 44, 89, 98, 109, 156, 165, 258, 294, 359
Das, Satyajit, 307–9
data, 303, 394
personal, 303–4, 305–6
security of, 76
signal detection theory and, 389–93
Dawkins, Richard, 17–18, 180, 183
daydreaming, 235–36
DDT, 125
De Bono, Edward, 240
dece(i)bo effect, 381–85
deception, 321–23
decision making, 52, 305, 393
constraint satisfaction and, 167–69
controlled experiments and, 25–27
risk and, 56–57, 68–71
skeptical empiricism and, 85
deduction, 113
defeasibility, 336–37
De Grey, Aubrey, 55–57
delaying gratification, 46
democracy, 157–58, 237
Democritus, 9
Demon-Haunted World, The (Sagan), 273
Dennett, Daniel C., 170–73, 212, 275
depth, 226–28
Derman, Emanuel, 115
Descent of Man, The (Darwin), 156
design:
mind and, 250–53
recursive structures in, 246–49
determinism, 103
Devlin, Keith, 264–65
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), 233–34
“Dial F for Frankenstein” (Clarke), 61
Diesel, Rudolf, 170
diseases, 93, 128, 174
causes of, 59, 303–4
distributed systems, 74–77
DNA, 89, 165, 223, 244, 260, 292, 303, 306
Huntington’s disease and, 59
sequencing of, 15
see also genes
dopamine, 230
doughnuts, 68–69, 70
drug trade, 345
dualities, 296–98, 299–300
wave-particle, 28, 296–98
dual view of ourselves, 32
dynamics, 276
Eagleman, David, 143–45
Earth, 294, 360
climate change on, see climate change
distance between sun and, 53–54
life on, 3–5, 10, 15
earthquakes, 387
ecology, 294–95
economics, 100, 186, 208, 339
economy(ies), 157, 158, 159
global, 163–64, 238–39
Pareto distributions in, 198, 199, 200
and thinking outside of time, 223
ecosystems, 312–14
Edge, xxv, xxvi, xxix–xxx
education, 50, 274
applying to real-world situations, 40
as income determinant, 49
policies on, controlled experiments in, 26
scientific lifestyle and, 20–21
efficiency, 182
ego:
ARISE and, 235–36
see also self
80/20 rule, 198, 199
Einstein, Albert, 28, 55, 169, 301, 335, 342
on entanglement, 330
general relativity theory of, 25, 64, 72, 234, 297
memory law of, 252
on simplicity, 326–27
Einstellung effect, 343–44
electrons, 296–97
Elliott, Andrew, 150
Eliot, T. S., 293
emergence, 190, 278
emergent complexity, 275
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 225
emotional stability, 232
empiricism, 85
energy production, 313–14, 315, 316–17
English language, 286–88
Eno, Brian, 294–95
Enriquez, Juan, 165–66
entanglement, 330–32
entropy, 237, 238, 239
enumerative induction, 113
environmental issues:
Anthropocene thinking and, 206–8
climate change, see climate change
energy production, 313–14, 315, 316–17
resource consumption, 175–76, 237, 238, 309, 313, 346
shifting baseline syndrome and, 90–91
equilibrium, systemic, 237–39
estrogen, 230, 231
ether, 338
eugenics, 88, 89
eukaryotic cells, 157, 196
Evans, Dylan, 100
evidence, 267
absence and, 281, 282–84
evolution, 51, 88–89, 98, 157, 166, 234, 333, 359, 395–96
of brain, 10, 207, 257
cooperation in, 99
creationism vs., 268–69
cycles and, 171, 172–73
intelligent design and, 59–60, 89
of microbes, 16
mutation in, 99
selection in, see natural selection
time and, 1–2, 223
toward intelligence, 4
expanding in-group, 194–95
experiments, 23–24, 34
controlled, 25–27, 274
double-blind control, 17–18, 44
failure in, 79–80
replicability of, 373–75
thought, 28–29
experts and authority figures, 18, 20, 34
explanation, levels of, 276
externalities, 124–26
extinction, 175, 362
extroversion, 232–33
eye, 130, 139, 141, 147–48, 163, 188–90, 359
facial attractiveness, 136, 137
failure, 79–80
fantasizing, 235–36
fear of the unknown, 55–57
Feynman, Richard, 20, 236
financial analysis, 186
financial crisis, 259, 261, 307, 309, 322, 386
financial instruments, 178, 179
financial risk, 259
Finn, Christine, 282–84
Firestein, Stuart, 62–64
fish, 90
Fisher, Helen, 229–31
Fiske, Susan, 267
Fitch, W. Tecumseh, 154–56
fixed-action patterns, 160–61
Flash Crash, 60–61
flavor, 141
Flock of Dodos, A, 268–69
flu, 351
vaccinations for, 56
Flynn, James, xxx, 372
Flynn effect, 89, 195
focusing illusion, 49–50
food chain, 312
Ford, Henry, 335
Foreman, Richard, 225
Foucault, Michel, 118
Fowler, James, 306
framing, 201–2, 203
free jazz, 254–56
free trade, 100
free will, 35, 48, 217
Freud, Sigmund, 37–38, 146, 147, 148
Friedman, Milton, 84
functional modularity, 131
future, 1–2
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 307
Galileo, 9, 28–29, 110, 162, 335
Galton, Francis, 242
Game of Life, 275–77
game theory, 94–95, 96, 318
Gandhi, Mohandas K., 335
gangs, 345
garbage, mental, 395–97
Gaussian distribution, 199, 200
gedankenexperiment, 28–29
Gefter, Amanda, 299–300
Gelernter, David, 246–49
Gell-Mann, Murray, 190, 388
General Motors, 204
general relativity, 25, 64, 72, 234, 297
generators, 277
genes, 10, 15, 32, 88, 97, 98, 99, 157, 165–66, 395
altruism and, 196
horizontal transfer of, 16
Huntington’s disease and, 59
hybrid vigor and, 194–95
McClintock’s work with, 240–41
pangenome, 16
personality and, 229, 233
see also DNA
gene therapy, 56
genetically modified (GM) crops, 16, 56
genetic vulnerability, 278–79
geometry, hyperbolic, 109
Gershenfeld, Neil, 72–73
Gibbon, Edward, 128
Gibbs, J. Willard, 312
Gibbs free energy, 312–13
Gibbs landscapes, 312–14
Gifford, Gabrielle, 279
Gigerenzer, Gerd, 259–61
Gilbert, Daniel, 306
Gleiser, Marcelo, 3–5
Glissant, Édouard, 118, 119
globalization, 100, 118, 237
expanding in-group and, 194–95
homogenization and, 118–19, 194
global warming, see climate change
Gödel, Kurt, 302
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 43
Gold, Joel, 235–36
Goldenfeld, Nigel, 58–61
Goldstein, Rebecca Newberger, 112–14
Goleman, Daniel, 206–8
Golomb, Beatrice, 381–85
Google, 25
Gopnik, Alison, 146–49
Gott, J. Richard, 11
Götzsche, Peter C., 382–83
Gould, Stephen Jay, 270
graduate students, 65–66
Grady, Denise, 384
gravity, 64
Gray, Elisha, 110
Green, David, 391
Greene, Joshua, xxvi–xxvii, 363–66
Griffith, Fred, 244
Grodecki, Louis, 248
Guatemala, 345
Haidt, Jonathan, xxviii, 196–97
Hailman, Jack P., 160
Hall, Charles Martin, 110
Halpern, Diane F., 378–80
Hand, Kevin, 312–14
Hannay, Timo, 25–27
happiness, 49, 93
Hardin, Garrett, 99, 174
Harman, Gilbert, 112
Harris, Sam, 211–13
Hayek, Friedrich, 258
health care policies, 50, 67, 204, 233–34, 259–60, 387
hearing, 141
Hearst, Marti, 266
Heinlein, Robert, 84
Heinroth, Oskar, 160
Henderson, Mark, 273–74
Heraclitus, 127, 128
Héroult, Paul, 110
Hersey, George, 248–49
hidden layers, 188–91
Highfield, Roger, xxviii, 98–99
Hill, Russell, 150–51
h-index, 373–74
Hirst, Damien, 307–8
Hoehler, Tori, 313
Hoffman, Donald, 135–38
holism, 81–83
Hölldobler, Bert, 196–97
Holocene epoch, 206, 207
holographic duality, 297–98
Holton, Gerald, 85
homeopathy, 18, 244
Homo dilatus, 209–10
homogeneity, 118–19, 194, 237
Homo sensus sapiens, 345–48
Honduras, 345
hormones, 229–30, 346
Hróbjartsson, Asbjørn, 382–83
Hubel, David, 189, 190
humanities, 364–66
Hume, David, 146
humility, cognitive, 39–40
Hunter, William, 111
Huntington’s disease, 59
Hurricane Katrina, 10, 369
hybrid vigor, 194–95
“I, Pencil” (Read), 258
Iacoboni, Marco, 330–332
images and symbols, 152–53
immigration, 100
income:
education as determinant of, 49
happiness and, 49, 93
India, 316
Pondicherry, 389–90
inference, 336
to the best explanation, 112–14
information, 226, 238, 266, 294–95
deception and, 321
depth and, 226–28
flow of, 218–20
Platonic, 177–79
search tools and, 266
secure sharing of, 75–76
in-group, 194–95
inheritance, non-inherent, 88–89
innovation, 310–11, 317
insanity/personality continuum, 232–34
instinct, 62–63, 346, 347
to learn, 154–56
instinctive intuitions, 234
intelligence, 240, 294–95
collective, 257–58
intelligence tests, 89, 195
intelligent design, 59–60, 89
intentions, 35
interbeing, 289–91
intermarriage, 194–95
international trade and organizations, 96
Internet, 20, 60, 74, 158–59, 179, 183, 238, 315
access to, 19
Internet (cont.)
cloud and, 74
memories and, 376–77
online companies, 25–26
open standards and, 86–87
search tools on, 266
intuition, 234, 372
in-vitro fertilization, 165
Jacques, Elliott, 334–35
Jacquet, Jennifer, 174–76
James, William, 163
Jardin, Xeni, 376–77
jazz, free, 254–56
jobs:
choice of, 350
temperament dimensions and, 231
time span of discretion and, 334–35
Jobs, Steve, xxv
Johnson-Laird, P. N., 122
Jupiter, 360–61
Kahneman, Daniel, xxv, xxx, 49–50, 121, 280, 306
kakonomics, xxviii, 318–20
kaleidoscopic discovery, 109–11
Kammerer, Paul, 110
Kaptchuk, Ted, 383–84
Kauffman, Stuart, 223
kayfabe, 321–23
Keats, John, 225
Kedrosky, Paul, 90–91
Kekulé, Friedrich August, 235–36
Kelly, Kevin, 79–80, 306
Kenrick, Douglas T., 129–31
Kepler, Johannes, 72, 360–61
keyboards, QWERTY, 285–86
keystone consumers, 174–76
keystone species, 174, 176
Khosla, Vinod, 315–17
kilogram, 341
Kinsbourne, Marcel, 194–95
Kleinberg, Jon, 74–77
Klingberg, Torkel, 117
knowledge, 52, 158, 238, 250, 262, 267
as hypothesis, 340–42
Knutson, Brian, 373–75
Kosko, Bart, 355–57
Kosslyn, Stephen M., 167–69
Krause, Kai, 324–27
Krauss, Lawrence, 53–54
Krebs, Hans, 170
Krebs cycle, 170
Krieger, Nancy, 59
Kuhn, Thomas, 2
42
Kuo, Zing-Yang, 63
Kurzban, Rob, 124–26
Kutcher, Stan, 251
labeling and naming, 62–64, 190–91
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste, 88
language, 154, 155–56, 158, 257, 395
path dependence and, 286–88
thinking and, 242
see also words
Lanier, Jaron, 177–79
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, 9
Large Hadron Collider, 189
large numbers, law of, 107, 122
lateral inhibition, 130
law, 260
learning, 154, 160
instinct for, 154–56
Lehrer, Jonah, 46–48
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 109
Leonardo da Vinci, 34
Levin, Harry, 31
liberal hyperrationality, 347
life, 157, 158, 172, 291
diversity of, 359
on Earth, 3–5, 10, 15
holism and, 81
intelligent, 4, 5
in universe, 3–5, 13–14, 292
life code, 165–66
linearity, 184–85
Lisi, Garrett, 68–71
Listing, Johann Benedict, 109
literacy, 259
risk, 259–61
“Little Gidding” (T. S. Eliot), 293
Little Red Riding Hood, 180–81
Lloyd, Seth, 65–67
Lobachevsky, Nikolai, 109
Locke, John, 146
logic, 113, 355
Lombrozo, Tania, 336–37
Looking for Generators, 277
Lorenz, Konrad, 160
Loughner, Jared, 279
Lovelock, James, 15
luck, 105, 106–7
Lucretius, 9
Lysenko, Trofim, 88
Mach, Ernst, 85
magnesium, 360
magnitude, 12, 162, 182, 185, 186
malaria, 125
Maldacena, Juan, 297, 299
management theory, 186
Mandelbrot, Benoit, xxvi, 246, 326
Marcus, Gary, 39–40
Margulis, Lynn, 15
marketers, 50
Markus, Hazel Rose, 367–70
Marler, Peter, 154
Mars, 13, 179, 292, 360
Marshall, Barry, 240
marshmallow experiment, 46–47, 48
Martindale, Colin, 129, 130–31
mathematics, 355–56
McClintock, Barbara, 240–41
McCrum, Robert, 286
McLuhan, Marshall, 41
McWhorter, John, 285–88
measurement, 340–42
media, 41
medicine, 51
clinical trials in, 26, 44, 56
health care policies, 50, 67, 204, 233–34, 259–60, 387
physicians in, 36
terms used in, 63
mediocrity principle, 6–8, 11, 12
Mednick, Sarnoff, 101
memes, 180–81, 183, 242
memory, computer, 39–40