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Hitler, Adolf, 98, 142, 143, 144

Hobbes, Thomas, 98

Holocene, 211, 305

Homer, 212, 304

hominins, 86, 108, 117, 119, 120, 126, 132, 135, 136, 141, 198, 203, 272

Homo erectus, 107, 249

Homo sapiens, 11, 36, 89, 90, 205, 249, 252, 259, 262, 298

origin of, 86–87

homosexuality, 99, 102, 143

honor killing, 142, 143, 144

Horn of Africa, 86

hospital, 294

Hrdy, Sarah, 323

human affairs, 250–57

human arms race, first, 272

human cultural variation, 249

human evolution, 135

unpredictability of, 250

humanistic “ways of knowing,” 303

humanities, 10, 165, 213, 299–308

as entertainment, 306

Hume, David, 4, 327

Hunt for Red October, The, 230

hunter-gatherer period, 272

Hurley, Susan, 330

hydrogen, 79

hydroxyl molecule, 64, 64

hyenas, 127

hyperactive agency detector, 327

see also conspiracy theorizing

idiot, tale told by an, 273

IKEA, 71

Iliad (Homer), 208, 212

illusion of aboutness, 185, 187, 191–92, 193, 194–219, 220

illusion of movement, 191

illusion, second strongest, 93

imams, 7

immediate gratification, 136

immorality, 2

immoral norms, 111

immortality, 2, 147, 223, 290

imperfect rules of reasoning, 269

improbable distributions, 31

outcomes, 88–90

in vitro fertilization, 287

inclination to help, 199

inclined plane, 168

indeterminism, quantum, 38, 222, 237–38

Industrial Revolution, 273

inequalities in wealth and power, 298

inerrancy, 87

infinite regress, 37

inflation (cosmic), 22, 35

information, 9 172, 195

revolution, 273

storage in brain, 179, 192

storage in computers, 188

innate capacities, 10

input/output circuits, 184, 185, 188, 190–91, 192, 194, 195, 209–10, 287

insects, 215

insomnia, 1

instability, molecular, 62

institutions, 266

intellectual irresponsibility, 235–36

intelligence, 11, 57

“intelligent design,” 50, 95

intelligent life, 17, 89

how possible, 43–44

intended outcomes, 88

intentional design, 253, 255

intentions, 57

interpretation, 213, 300, 304

sciences of, 212

interpretative disciplines, 301

introspection, 146–63, 223, 280

overreaches, 215

still screaming, 185, 213, 214

taken seriously, 226–36

tricks us, 171

trumping science, 151

unreliability of, 154, 238

invention, as tinkering, 252

“inverse optics” problem, 156, 158–61

invisible hand, 278

iron, 76

irrational commitment, 138

iterated strategic game, 134, 135, 136, 141

prisoner’s dilemma (PD), 129–32

jealousy, 137

Jeopardy!, 23, 186, 187

Jiminy Cricket, 144

joke, 246

Joyce, Richard, 321

judgment, bias in, 269

justice, 93, 115

justifying morality, 99–101

Kafka, Franz, 222

Kahn, Herman, 171

Kahneman, Daniel, 268–69, 329

Kandel, Eric, 180–86, 188, 209, 325

Kant, Immanuel, 47–49, 57, 90, 238, 239, 300

Kauffman, Stuart, 319

Kelvin, Lord, 29, 31, 51, 57, 77, 319

Keynes, John Maynard, 265, 266

Keynesian model 264–65

kinds of knowledge, 299

Kissinger, Henry, 246

Kitcher, Philip, 330

Knobe, Joshua, 321

knowledge, unwarranted claims to, 301

Koontz, Claudia, 105

Kosslyn, Stephen, 325

Kubrick, Stanley, 171

Kuhn, Thomas, 301–2

Lacan, Jacques, 304

language, 10, 195–204

large-brained babies, 81

Large Hadron Collider, 22, 37

latitude and longitude, 173

Lavoisier, Antoine, 29

“law” of democratic peace, 263

Lawrence, Peter, 320

laws of motion, 16, 33

laws of physics, 15, 16, 52, 236, 260–61

Leavis, F. R., 304, 331

left-wing governments, 294

Leibniz, Gottfried, 233–35, 328

leptons, 21

lessons of history, nonexistence of, 246–50

Lewontin, Richard, 53–54

libertarians, 295

Libet, Benjamin, 152–54, 170, 210, 236, 286, 324

libido, 303

life, meaninglessness of, 19

Life of Johnson (Boswell), 212

lions, 262

literary arts, 247

literary criticism, 7

as art form, 306–7

literature, 165, 301

living too long, 117–18

local adaptation, 247

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