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  Grand Unified Theory (GUT)

  Grant, Seth

  gravity

  Graesser, Michael L.

  Griffiths, Paul E.

  Gross, David

  Guth, Alan

  Harcourt, Alexander H.

  Hauser, Marc D.

  Hawking, Stephen

  hearing

  Helitzer, Florence

  helium

  hemoglobin

  Hirth, F.

  history, cultural

  history, natural

  Holden, Constance

  Holderness, Mike

  holy

  Homo sapiens

  Horgan, John

  Hoyle, Fred

  Hubble, Edwin

  Hubble Space Telescope

  Human Genome Project

  humans: as stardust; at midscale in universe; cosmic dwarfs; embryonic development; inevitable in universe; made in image of God; rational animals; uniqueness, chapter 3

  hydrogen

  ideas, transmitted mind to mind

  idiographic vs. nomothetic

  immense, hyperimmense numbers

  indeterminacy, quantum

  inflation (at big bang)

  information; in biology; information age; and computing; proactive genetic; Shannon

  intentionality (genetic)

  intentionality (mental)

  interaction, biological

  Internet

  inwardness

  iron

  irritability

  isomorphism (in cosmology)

  Israel

  its from bits

  Jacob, Francois

  Jaspers, Karl

  jellyfish

  Jennings, H. S.

  Jesus

  Johnson, Patricia, J.

  Judaism

  jugglers

  Jupiter

  Kagan, Jerome

  kaleidoscope

  Kauffman, Stuart

  Kazazian, Haig H.

  Kellermeier, Matthias

  Kerner, Berit

  Kimura, Mooto

  Kirby, Simon

  Kirschner, Marc W.

  Knoll, Andrew H.

  Komarower, Patricia

  Kruger, Anne Cale

  Kummer, Helmut

  Kunz, Werner

  Kvenvolden, Keith

  Lahn, Bruce

  language, human; acquiring second language

  LaPlace. See de LaPlace, Pierre Simon, Marquis

  Larwood, Gilbert P.

  Laughlin, R. B.

  law, natural

  learning, acquired

  LeDoux, Joseph

  lens crystallins

  Levy, Yaakov

  Lewontin, Richard

  life, chapter 2; explosion of; improbability of; life and death; second genesis (of life)

  Linde, A.D.

  lipid bilayers

  lithium

  Lloyd, Seth

  logic

  Logos (divine)

  Lorenz, Edward N.

  love

  Lovell, Bernard

  Maciá, E. M.

  Mackenzie, Dana

  magnesium

  Maguire, Eleanor A.

  mammals

  Margulis, Lynn

  Mars

  mathematics

  matter-energy, chapter 1; dark matter

  Matsuzawa, Tetsuro

  Maynard Smith, John

  Mayr, Ernst

  McAuliffe, Katherine

  Mead, Margaret

  Mechelli, Andrea

  meerkats

  megaverse

  meiosiss

  Merzenich, Michael

  metallicity

  metaphysics

  meteorite, Murchison

  meteorology

  microbes

  microphysics

  mind, chapter 3

  mitochondria

  monkeys

  Monod, Jacques

  moon

  morality. See ethics

  mouse

  multicellularity

  multiple universes

  musicians

  narrative; grand

  natural selection

  Nave, C. R.

  Neanderthal humans

  neuroscience

  neuro-sentience, neurons; evolution of; neuroplasticity

  Newton Isaac

  Niklas, Karl J.

  nitrogen

  Noble, Denis

  nomothetic vs. idiographic. See idiographic vs. nomothetic

  nuclear force, strong, weak

  nucleosynthesis

  Oberhummer, H. A.

  Onuchic, José N.

  openness. See also autonomy; freedom; indeterminism

  order: cosmological; and determinism; and disorder; genetic; in biology; self-organization

  Ordovician Period

  organisms

  oxygen

  Pace, Norman R.

  Padian, K.

  pain. See also suffering

  Pantev, Christo

  Paradiso, Michael A.

  Pascal, Blaise

  Pennisi, Elizabeth

  Perelman, Grigori

  Penrose, Roger

  Permian Period

  Perry, D. A.

  persons

  Perutz, M. F.

  Petsko, Gregory A.

  phenomenology (of experience)

  phospholipids

  phosphorus

  physics; and biology; and mathematics; micro-physics; stellar physics

  Pielou, E. C.

  Pilbeam, D.

  Pines, David

  Planaria

  planets. See also Earth

  Plato

  Platonism

  Polkinghorne, John

  Popper, Karl

  possibility

  possibility space

  potentialities

  Potts, Richard

  Povinelli, Daniel

  prediction

  Premack, David

  presence, human, divine

  Prigogine, Ilya

  primates

  procaryotes

  progress, in evolution

  Protagoras

  proteins; in synapses

  protozoans

  psychology

  pulsars

  Pythagorean theorem

  qualia

  quantum events

  quantum field theory

  quantum foam

  quantum mechanics

  quarks

  quasars

  rabbits

  radioactivity

  randomness

  rationality, reason

  Ratner, Hilary Horn

  rarification fallacy

  Rees, Martin J.

  Reichart, H.

  relativity, theory of

  Rendell, Luke

  reptiles

  resonance states, in stars

  Richardson, Tom

  Richerson, Peter J.

  right and wrong. See ethics

  Ringe, Dagmar

  Ruse, Michael

  sacred

  Sakai, Kuniyoshi L.

  Saturn

  samsara

  Scott, Alwyn

  sea anemones

  self-organization

  semantics, sentience

  serendipity

  Seyfarth, Robert M.

  Shapiro, James A.

  Signor, Philip W.

  silicon, silica

  Silk, Joseph

  Silurian Period

  Simpson, George Gaylord

  Singer, Peter

  singularities

  Sirius Passet formation, Greenland

  Skinner

  Smolin, Lee

  sociology

  Socrates

  sodium

  space, empty

  speciation

  species packing

  spirit

  Stanley, Steven M.

  starfish, statistics

  Stengers, Isabelle

  Sterelny, Kim

 
Stevenson, Robert Louis

  Stewart, Kelly H.

  string theory, superstring theory

  Stoeger, William R.

  struggle, in natural history

  subjectivity, subjective experience. See also experience, felt

  sublime

  suffering

  sulfur

  sun

  sunyata

  supernatural

  supernova

  surprise

  swimbladders, in fish

  symbolism, in human language

  symmetry-breaking

  synapses; postsynaptic membrane

  Szathmáry, Eörs

  Tattersall, Ian

  Taylor, Paul D.

  taxi drivers, London

  teaching

  Tegmark, Max

  tectonic plates

  telos

  Templeton, Christopher N.

  temptation

  Tertiary Period

  theology

  theory of everything

  theory of mind

  Thornton, Alex

  Tiffney, Bruce H.

  time; atomic clocks; attoseconds; picoseconds; Planck time; time zero

  Tipler

  Tomasello, Michael

  Triassic Period

  trial-and-error learning (genetics)

  trilobites

  Tye, Michael

  Tylor, Edward B.

  urbilateria

  universe: clockwork; early chronology; expanding; fine-tuned; humans at midscale; humans inevitable in; jackpot universe; multiple universes; sequential universes; user-friendly

  vacuum

  Valentine, James W.

  value

  Venter, J. Craig

  Vermeij, Geerat J.

  vertebrates

  Vickers-Rich

  Vilenkin, Alexander

  violin players

  Vogel, Gretchen

  von Baeyer, Hans Christian

  Vonk, Jennifer

  Wald, George

  water; and life

  Ward, Peter D.

  Watson, James D.

  Weinberg, Steven

  Westheimer, F. H., whales

  Wheeler, John A.

  Whitehead, Hal

  Whiten, Andrew

  Whitesides, George M.

  Whittaker, R. H.

  Wiener, Norbert

  Wigner, Eugene P.

  Wilczek, Frank

  wilderness

  Williams, George C.

  Williams, Robert J. P.

  Wilson, Edward O.

  Wistow, Graeme

  wonder

  Wolfram, Stephen

  worms; earthworms; flat-worms

  Wrangham, Richard W.

  yang and yin

  Yokey, Hubert P.

  Zimmer, Carl

  zinc