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Deep Blue, chess playing computer, 187

deepest illusion, 240

defection, in prisoner’s dilemma (PD), 126–32

de-meritocracy, 293–94

democratic peace theory, 263

Dennett, Daniel, 221, 224, 319, 325, 330, 332

depression, 283

deregulated markets, 266

Derrida, Jacques, 304, 305

Descartes, René, 225–27

design, 57, 204, 205, 251

ruled out by physics, 35–43

design problem, 11, 117, 137, 142, 135

from hell, 118

as metaphor, 13, 56–57

design space, 249

desires, as information storage circuits, 189

detachment, Epicurean, 313–15

determinism, 236–28, 293–99, 308–9

development, 25, 189

diagrams, 209

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Hume), 4

Diamond, Jared, 273, 328

dinosaurs, 15–16, 75–76, 257

Dirac, Paul, 23

direction

of history, 243

of time, 33–34

disagreements about morality, 287

Discovery Institute, 95

disease, crime as, 294

Disney (company), 144, 191–92, 221, 327

disorder, 31, 32, 34

complete, 41

disorganized state, see disorder; entropy

Distant Mirror, The (Tuchman), 257

distribution of wealth and income, 295, 298

diversity, 68–69

division of labor, 215

divorce, 102

DNA, 59–60, 61, 67, 74, 86, 181, 248

cube, 319

Dr. Frankenstein, 237

Dr. Pangloss, 251

Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 171

dogs, 198, 229

dolphins, 11, 198

dominant strategy, 127

dot-detection, 197

double-blind controlled experiments, 312

double helix, 278

Dretske, Fred, 325

drift, genetic, 251

in human affairs, 252

driving, 209

dumb luck, 82

duplicate of our region of space, 27–28

Durlauf, Steven, 331

E. coli, 88

Eagleton, Terry, 331

earned income and wealth, nonexistence of, 295

East Germany, 297

economic agents, 265

economics, 116, 128, 242, 260, 266, 271

economy of means to ends, 50

Edison, Thomas, 252

egalitarianism, 298–99

Eiffel Tower, 174, 175, 252

Einstein, Albert, 16, 256

electroencephalograph, 153

electromagnetic force, 36, 39

electrons, 21

charge of , 36, 39

elementary particles, 21

elements, chemical, 25, 55

elephants, 11, 88, 122, 198, 251, 259

emotions, 106, 135–41

as bodily feelings, 140

empty words, 127

Encyclopædia Britannica, 316

energy, 31

Enlightenment, the, 5

entropy, 33, 42, 58, 67, 77, 79, 80

defined, 31

and direction of time, 33

environment, chemical, 65

environmental appropriateness, extreme, 197, 204

environmental change, rapid in culture, 258

environmental filtration, 55, 71, 78, 140, 161, 162, 196, 251, 290

environments, 68, 76, 140, 247, 250, 270, 286

each animal’s includes other animals, 248

visual, 161

Epicureanism, we were selected for, 313

Epicurus, 313, 315

equality, 115, 136

norm, 133

equations, 15

Essay on Population (Malthus), 55

ethical judgments, 311

Ethiopia, 117

ethnomethodology, 305

euthanasia, 103, 287

Euthyphro (Plato), 99–100

evolutionary anthropology, 206

evolutionary biology, 124, 247

evolutionary bottleneck, 86, 116, 198, 208

evolutionary game theory, 108, 123–35

evolutionary trajectory of vision, 159

existentialists, 279, 280, 305

experimental physics, 40

experiments, psychological, 223

explanations of behavior, 213

Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, The (Darwin), 137

extinction, 75, 119

eye, 49, 150

frog’s, 196–97

factual beliefs, 287

and moral norms, 106, 285–90

fairness, 115, 136

norm, 133

fair offers in games, 132

fallibility of science, 20

families, 11, 85

Fantastic Voyage (Asimov), 234

farmer ants, 215–16

farmers, 140

fatalism, 308, 313

fearing death, why not to, 313–15

feeling baffled, 179

female genital cutting, 105, 143

feminist theory, 305

fermions, 21, 22, 35, 38, 41, 221, 233, 235, 237

fertility, 118

fertilized embryo, destroying, 289

feudalism, 253, 262, 273

fever, 208

Feynman, Richard, 23, 317

fiction of enduring self, 226

films, 214

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