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neutrons, 21

new classical economics, 266

New Criticism, 304

new ethical problems, 289–90

New Keynesianism, 266

New York Times, 45, 326

Newton, Isaac, 15, 16, 23, 40, 47, 84, 90, 92

laws, 40, 168

nice guys finished last in rain forest, 135

nice nihilism, 115–45, 144, 278, 279, 286–87, 290, 313

niceness, selection for, 115–45

Nichols, Shaun, 321

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 96

nightmare, public relations, 99

nihilism, 18, 92, 93, 94–114, 121, 165, 312

defined, 97–98

two steps to, 102–13

Nisbett, Richard, 323

Nixon, Richard, 246

Nobel Prize, 45, 181, 271

in chemistry, 25

in economics, ersatz, 255, 268

in medicine, 25

nonconscious thought, 192

region of brain of, 154

norms, moral, 94–114, 139

nothing is forever, 249, 263, 270

novels, 214

“now-sight,” nonexistence of, 155, 162

nuclear attack submarine, 167

nuclear family, 122

objective knowledge. 301

Odyssey (Homer), 10

offspring, too many, 117–18

Old Testament, 84, 91

omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, of God, 87, 88

On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 49, 83, 115

one-shot game, 133–34

iterated strategic game, 129–32, 134, 135, 136, 141

one-way process, 80, 309

only game in town, 47, 52, 71, 78, 90, 92

ontogenetic process, 198, 202, 204

operant conditioning, 124, 136, 203

optical illusions, 155–61, 269

organelles, 69

organic macromolecules, 92

organisms, 68, 69, 85

Oriental despotism, 273

original intentionality, 325

Osama bin Laden, 143

our ancestors, 12

output, electrical, 184

see also input/output circuits

overshooting, by Mother Nature, 13, 211

Oxford, Earl of, 307

oxygen, 79

as poison, 76

package of source, object and medium, 158

painting, 307

paleoanthropology, 108

paleontology, 15

panpsychism, 211

paradigm, 302

parasites, 253–55

parasitism, 247

Paris, 172–79, 174

Paris neurons, 173–79, 174, 184, 324

passive filter, 53, 56

pastoralists, 139

pastors, 7

patriarchy, 111–12

Pavlov, Ivan, 180

payoff to cooperation, 137

PD, see prisoner’s dilemma

periodic table of the elements, 24, 55, 62–63, 63

peripheral devices, 189

Permian-Triassic extinction, 76

perpetual motion machines, 276, 279

persistent questions, 1–3, 19, 149

person, 148, 195, 221

sameness of, 148–49

personal computer, 264

pharmacopoeia, 312

phenomenology, 305

philology, 301

philosophers of history, 244

philosophical giants of naturalism,

240

philosophy, 1, 222, 229, 241, 313

phonemes, in English, 202

photons, 21

Phyllium giganteum, 49

phylogenetic process, 198

physical body, 222, 223

physical facts fix all the facts, 20, 81, 113, 162, 194, 219, 220, 222,

223, 241, 244, 313

meaning of slogan, 26–28

physicians, 296

physics, 17, 19, 20–44, 78, 167–69, 229, 244, 271, 284

why trust it, 22–25

physics fakes design, 45–70, 92

picture postcard, 174

Pinker, Steven, 326

Pinocchio (film), 144

pixels, 186, 187

placebos, 312

plans, 109, 112, 205, 208, 220, 224, 239, 278, 312, 313

Plato, 99–101, 109, 112, 278, 313, 321

plays, 214

Pleistocene, 12, 129, 164, 205, 206, 208, 250, 270, 305, 306

plots, 208, 212

finding, 306

Plutarch, 167

poetry, 307

poker, 269

Pol Pot, 98, 143

polar bears, 50

political commentators, 310

political scientists, 263

politicians, 310

politics, 116, 311

pollution, 258

Pollyanna, 251

pop-up book, 174

population, 85

growth, 272

positive discrimination, 287

post-death harms, 314–15

postmodernism, 305–6, 307

post-structuralism, 305

POV (point of view), 194, 222, 226

prayer, 2

predator, 127

top, 118

prediction, 260–61, 304

of actions, 12

behavior, 213

of physics, 22–24

predictive success, 305

prehistory, 272

prescientific worldview, 165

preventive detention, 294

price setters, 298

price system, 255

priests, 7

primates, 11, 103, 117

Prinz, Jesse, 323

prison, 294

prisoner’s dilemma