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capital punishment, 287

capitalism, 259, 264, 266, 297

carnivorous food chain, 119

Carroll, Sean B. (developmental molecular biologist), 320

Carroll, Sean M. (physicist), 318

cathedrals, building, 215, 216, 225

cathexis, 303

causal closure, of physics, 25

causal completeness, of physics, 25

causes and effects, 233

cells, 68, 69

cellulose, 118

CERN, 37

cheap solutions to design problems, 135

cheap talk, 127

cheating, by arguments against scientism, 233

chemistry, 19, 59–70, 85, 168, 236

explained by physics, 24

laws of, 16

childhood dependence, length of, 81, 118, 119, 202

chimpanzees, 121, 199

differences with humans, 202

as grudging sharers, 200

China, great leap forward, 297

Chinese foot binding, 253–54

Chinese pictograms, 176, 177

chlorine, 62–64, 63, 64

choices, 236–38

Chomsky, Noam, 203

Christian bookstores, 7

Christianity, 244

Christianity, American, no problem with slavery, 144

chunk (or clump) of matter, 27, 42, 43, 173–74, 176, 178, 179, 184, 186, 193, 200, 201, 204, 227, 276, 288

church dogma, 290

Churchill, Winston, 212, 246, 272

civilization, 243

Clark, Gregory, 329

classical conditioning, 180–81

climate change, 258

cloning , 287, 289

clump of matter, see chunk (or clump) of matter

cockroaches, loquacious, 257

coevolutionary cycle, 122

coffee cup, 31–32

cogito argument, 226–27

cognitive-behavioral therapy, 284–86

cognitive psychology, 108

cogs and levers, 234

Cohen, Dov, 323

coincidence, intolerable, 101, 113

collaboration, 75

spontaneous, in babies, 202

collectivization, 297

colonial theory, 305

color, 231

common sense, 218

mistakes of, 169

competing adaptations, 68, 69

competition, 75, 248–49

completeness of physics, 53

complex human creations, 218

complexity, 68–69

composite things, 234

composition, 233

computer chips, 23

computer program, 10

computers, 186–90

personal, 258

computer simulation of games, 130–35

conditioning experiments, 180–81

Congress of Vienna, 246

Conrad, Joseph, 96

conscious decisions, 162

consciousness, 18, 144, 148, 209–10

function of, 210, 218, 226, 275

as information retriever, 169

as physical process, 146–63, 193, 195

consistency with physics, 50

conspiracy theorizing, 13–14, 17, 19, 39, 40, 304–5, 306, 310, 327

crudity of, 207–14

consumer satisfaction, 277

conundrums, 227–29

convenience store, 128

cookie cutter, 54–55, 60

cool problems, 233

see also conundrums

cooperation, 11, 68, 69, 115, 199, 203, 204, 211

cooperative adaptations, 68, 69

cooperative childcare, 122

core morality, 95, 102, 106, 108, 109–11, 115–45, 120, 141, 259, 260, 278, 281, 286, 287–91, 293, 298

correctness of moral norms, 100

cosmic background radiation, 35

cosmology, 15

CPU (central processing unit), 187

creative destruction, 259

credible threats, 138

Crichton, Michael, 61

crime, softness on, 299

criminal justice system, 293–94

criticism, 301

see also literary criticism

cross-cultural constancy of game strategies, 132, 133

crude indicators of thought, 208

crystal growth, 60

Cuba, 297

cuckoos, parasitizing finches, 261–62

cultural anthropology, 301

cultural environment, 264

cultural evolution, 108, 258, 250–55, 260, 262

cup of coffee, 58

curiosity relief, 9, 207, 213

“cut the cake” game, 132–33

Dahmer, Jeffrey, 142

Damasio, Antonio, 328

dandelion, 73

dark energy, 40

dark matter, 40

Darkness Visible (Styron), 283

Darwin, 44, 46, 71, 75, 77, 82, 83, 91, 113, 115, 120, 123, 137, 244, 249, 300, 325, 328

Darwinian processes, 8, 250

nested, 264

Darwinian theory, 72, 206

see also theory of natural selection

data drives, 258

Dawkins, Richard, 278, 282, 318

DB, patient with blindsight, 150–51

De Rarum Naturum (Lucretius), 331

death, 195, 308

alleged badness of, 314

decent people, 94

deck stacking, 77

deconstruction, 307