Concept Index — The Real Book, Volume I

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Concept	Pages and other locators
absolute absence	16, 23, 36, 92, 97, 105, 259; Notes: 259
absorber theory and quantum direct-action theory	52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 80, 88, 91, 96; Notes: 88
abstraction	2, 4, 7, 16, 23, 27, 37, 69, 75, 101, 116, 122, 128, 132, 138, 191, 233, 237
actual entities	65, 69, 116, 123, 137, 158, 257
actual occasion	69, 123, 137, 158, 159, 257
actual, the	2, 5, 7, 8, 23, 35, 39, 40, 46, 50, 52, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 61, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 92, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 119, 122, 123, 128, 132, 137, 139, 140, 141, 155, 158, 165, 183, 197, 203, 218, 252, 253, 254, 256, 257, 258, 263, 264, 269, 270, 276, 287, 292, 299, 301; Notes: 66
actualization	7, 8, 9, 10, 19, 21, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 39, 40, 46, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 88, 89, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122, 132, 133, 134, 138, 139, 140, 141, 143, 155, 183, 193, 197, 203, 218, 243, 244, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 263, 264, 268, 270, 272, 283, 291, 292, 296, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304; Notes: 3, 66, 89; Epigraph: 291
actualization as lawful selection under constraint	54, 108, 109, 110, 117, 118, 136
adaptive complexity	7, 8, 11, 95, 168, 169, 170, 173, 174, 180, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 285, 287, 288, 289, 292, 294, 295, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304; Notes: 204, 269
affordances	10, 236, 239
agency	200, 260, 262, 263, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 298, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305; Notes: 295, 304
agential cut	140
agential realism	98, 140
akrasia	304; Notes: 304
algorithmic incompressibility	129
allostasis	135
answerability	3, 4, 139, 251
anti-entropy	144, 218, 226, 227, 228, 229, 262, 267
anticipation	69, 201
artificial intelligence	13, 14, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 241, 247, 266
associated milieu / individual–milieu coupling	19, 20, 21, 28, 29, 114; Notes: 20, 21
asymmetry from uneven impossibility	218, 219, 261
attention	12, 303
autocatalytic sets	164, 165, 177
autonomy	239, 295, 296, 302, 303, 304
becoming	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 52, 61, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 74, 85, 95, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 117, 119, 120, 123, 127, 128, 131, 133, 134, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 143, 155, 157, 158, 159, 160, 164, 170, 191, 192, 193, 197, 199, 203, 225, 236, 237, 240, 245, 246, 249, 250, 251, 257, 258, 260, 263, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 276, 282, 283, 284, 287, 289, 291, 292, 299, 300, 301, 302, 305; Notes: 3, 66, 105; Epigraph: 5, 9, 291
bifurcation-point amplification	125, 126, 163, 187
biological default state	227, 228
biological relativity	143, 168, 227, 273
bisociation	184
blind variation and selective retention	238, 242, 243, 244, 246, 247, 250, 257, 258, 285, 301; Notes: 269
body schema	38, 39
Born rule	51, 54, 55, 59, 60, 61, 73, 76, 77, 91, 124, 252, 253, 260, 296, 299; Notes: 59, 75
Born-weight normalization	55, 59, 60
bounded and open-ended evolutionary systems	228, 242, 260, 261, 262, 267, 268
care	4
causal efficacy of possibility	7, 71, 72, 73, 98, 107, 116, 117, 167, 203
causality as constraint	71, 73, 74, 75, 162, 167, 169, 201, 205, 206, 221, 284, 285, 304
ceteris-paribus lawfulness	123
cladogenesis	148, 149, 170
clinamen	274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289
cognition	2, 15, 36, 37, 38, 41, 69, 120, 123, 134, 156, 179, 184, 196, 197, 206, 214, 215, 230, 231, 233, 234, 236, 237, 238, 241, 249, 250, 251, 264, 279, 301
coherent storage and retrieval	88, 89; Notes: 89
combinatorial evolution of technology	182, 185, 186, 188
complementarity	51, 104, 116, 117, 118, 124, 125
compounding functionality	182, 183, 239, 241, 242
conatus	274, 277, 278, 279, 280, 286, 287, 288, 289, 304
conceptual blending	233
conceptual metaphor	233
concrescence	65, 69, 116, 158, 257
concretization	33, 34
confirmation wave	52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 72, 73, 75, 78, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 101, 107, 109, 114, 132, 134, 258; Notes: 75
conjecture–refutation cycle	242, 243, 244, 285
constitutive relationality	61, 111
constraint	3, 4, 7, 19, 22, 33, 57, 61, 63, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 85, 87, 88, 98, 102, 105, 107, 109, 110, 113, 115, 117, 118, 122, 130, 134, 136, 138, 139, 140, 143, 150, 151, 152, 154, 155, 156, 162, 167, 169, 170, 174, 176, 177, 179, 187, 188, 189, 190, 192, 198, 199, 201, 204, 205, 206, 215, 217, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 227, 229, 237, 244, 246, 247, 249, 250, 253, 254, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 265, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 278, 284, 285, 292, 293, 297, 298, 301, 302, 303, 304; Notes: 198
constraint-shaped probability landscape	272, 284, 285, 303
container picture	2, 4, 7, 10, 15, 16, 23, 36, 37, 42, 51, 79, 83, 92, 102, 111, 112, 203, 245, 276; Epigraph: 43
contingency	103, 108, 110, 113, 118, 120, 144, 166, 172, 173, 175, 176, 177, 219, 220, 223, 226, 244, 247, 249, 250, 257, 262, 276, 284
control	184, 200, 201, 237, 239, 248, 295, 296, 303
control objection	296, 303
Copenhagen interpretation	43, 44, 51, 55, 75, 76, 80, 97, 252; Notes: 47
corrigibility	138, 232, 233, 242, 245, 250, 251, 285, 301
cosmological expansion	15, 36, 95, 97
creative advance	10, 65, 95, 96, 137, 141, 156, 157, 158, 193, 197, 198, 200, 258, 287
creativity as Whiteheadian ultimate principle	10, 65, 95, 96, 137, 141, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 193, 197, 198, 200, 258, 287, 291
criticality hypothesis	136, 184, 185
cross-scale correspondence test	186, 187, 268
cultural evolution	147, 150, 151, 166, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 185, 186, 193, 195, 217, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 240, 243, 244, 247, 248, 249, 250, 259, 264, 265, 279
cumulative cultural evolution and ratchet effect	231, 235, 236, 248, 279
cumulative retention effect	231, 235, 248, 279
dappled world	123
decoherence as the cost of openness	254, 255
decoherence	64, 69, 77, 254, 255
deep ecology	39
derivative information	18
developmental bias	147, 150, 152, 174, 175
diachronic emergence	156, 162, 163, 165, 166, 199; Notes: 161, 162, 286
differential replication of linguistic variants	180
directional retention	206, 222
directionality (irreversibility)	56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 78, 88, 89, 94, 95, 96, 99, 103, 104, 105, 109, 110, 113, 114, 117, 118, 120, 124, 125, 159, 163, 164, 217, 218, 220, 221, 222, 223, 226, 229, 240, 261, 263, 265, 270, 272, 273, 280, 281, 284; Notes: 66, 89
disparation	18
dissipative adaptation	194, 221, 222, 223, 229, 267
dissipative individuation	272
dissipative structures	125, 126, 162, 163, 168, 222, 223
double-slit experiment	45, 68
dynamic constancy	282
dynamic resilience	205, 207, 214, 282
edge of chaos	31, 35, 135, 136, 137, 184, 185
embodied constraint-enabled agency	301, 302, 303, 304
embodied constraint-enabled agent-originated freedom	292, 296, 298, 300, 303, 304, 305
embodied knowledge	10, 12, 36, 37, 302
embodied organization	302, 303
embodied scaffolding	235
embodiment	2, 10, 36, 37, 233, 236, 249, 284, 292, 294, 300, 301, 302, 303
emergence	7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 27, 32, 34, 35, 36, 40, 43, 49, 51, 60, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 78, 79, 83, 85, 92, 93, 95, 97, 101, 107, 108, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 118, 122, 124, 125, 134, 138, 140, 143, 144, 147, 148, 154, 156, 157, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 173, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 189, 192, 193, 194, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 217, 226, 230, 234, 238, 242, 244, 249, 250, 257, 259, 264, 265, 266, 270, 272, 274, 276, 286, 288, 292, 294, 295, 304; Notes: 161, 198, 295
emergent novelty	2, 7, 95, 143, 144, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 168, 169, 170, 178, 179, 196, 197, 198, 199, 201, 202, 274, 286, 288, 291, 292, 294, 302, 303; Notes: 161, 198
emotion	22, 31, 32
empirical equivalence	50, 61, 80, 87, 88, 89, 116; Notes: 88, 89
enaction	2, 36, 37, 302
entanglement	36, 46, 47, 48, 64, 65, 78, 81, 87, 88, 102, 232; Notes: 47, 89
entropic gravity	94, 95, 96
entropy	67, 94, 95, 137, 162, 163, 164, 170, 194, 204, 209, 217, 218, 221, 222, 223, 225, 226, 227, 228, 260, 265, 272, 277, 286
epigenetic inheritance	147, 150, 151, 152
epistemic becoming	3, 56, 243, 244, 246, 247, 250, 251, 285; Notes: 56
epistemic indeterminacy	120, 121, 123, 124, 125, 127, 156, 199
epistemic irreducibility	120, 156, 199
error threshold	134, 135, 137
events	1, 2, 7, 10, 29, 48, 49, 51, 52, 54, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103, 104, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 117, 120, 123, 124, 131, 137, 143, 155, 158, 159, 163, 164, 166, 184, 190, 193, 203, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 264, 270, 272, 275, 276, 278, 280, 282, 283, 285, 292, 297, 299, 302; Notes: 3, 66; Epigraph: 43
everliving fire	1; Epigraph: 1
evolution	1, 10, 31, 33, 134, 135, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 158, 159, 163, 165, 166, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 182, 183, 185, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 202, 206, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 218, 219, 220, 221, 224, 225, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 245, 246, 247, 248, 250, 255, 256, 259, 260, 261, 262, 265, 278, 279, 280, 281, 283, 285; Notes: 286; Epigraph: 143
evolutionary convergence	175, 176, 236
evolutionary developmental biology	31, 146, 150, 152, 174, 175
evolutionary epistemology	196, 197, 238, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 280, 285; Notes: 269
evolutionary variation	10, 134, 135, 146, 148, 151, 152, 153, 154, 169, 170, 172, 173, 174, 175, 177, 186, 187, 192, 199, 201, 206, 253, 255, 256, 276, 278, 279, 281, 286, 287
evolvability	147, 148
exaptation	157, 173, 174, 178, 179, 182, 183, 185, 188, 199, 228, 245; Notes: 183
exploration–exploitation trade-off	136
extended criticality	137
extended evolutionary synthesis	145, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154
external memory	232, 233, 234, 235
extrabiological inheritance	150, 178, 179, 185, 231, 238
fallacy of misplaced concreteness	2
fallibility	246, 247
feeling	32, 34
field of potential	7, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, 32, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 52, 60, 61, 71, 72, 73, 100, 101, 102, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 117, 118, 122, 131, 133, 134, 140, 143, 155, 203, 249, 252, 270, 272, 291; Notes: 3
field of sense	127, 140
form-taking	13, 18, 40, 108, 114, 272
formal undecidability	120, 121, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131
four-dimensional block	66, 70, 99, 139, 159; Notes: 66
frame	184, 243
free will theorem	297, 298, 299, 301
freedom	2, 4, 10, 11, 122, 158, 200, 275, 277, 285, 287, 288, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305; Notes: 294, 304
function	7, 12, 33, 34, 38, 79, 104, 105, 107, 113, 115, 117, 137, 160, 168, 173, 177, 178, 179, 182, 186, 188, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 253, 254, 256, 258, 260, 261, 262, 264, 265, 266, 267, 269, 270, 272, 273, 281, 287, 292, 301; Notes: 105, 286
functional information	179, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 253, 254, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 281; Notes: 204, 269
functional-information arrow	219, 267, 268
gedankenexperiment	45, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 88, 172, 220; Notes: 56
general novelty engine	186, 187, 188
generative constraint	134, 138, 139, 162, 163, 167, 198, 269, 273, 292, 302, 303, 304
generative realism	2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 27, 117, 138, 139, 140, 141; Notes: 2, 3
genetic drift	150, 151, 154, 170, 187, 188
Gibbs's paradox	83
grammar	3, 4, 12, 104, 122, 181, 188, 231, 232, 260, 264, 270
growing universe	60, 66, 67, 68, 70, 73, 74, 92, 99, 101, 139; Notes: 66
hard problem of consciousness	162
Hermitian adjoint	75; Notes: 75
holobiont and hologenome	150, 153
holographic principle	94, 95
homeostasis	30, 205, 214, 277, 286
homology	61, 102, 104, 105, 108, 111, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 148; Notes: 105
homunculus	294, 295, 301, 302
horizontal gene transfer	152, 153
hormesis	134, 135, 137
human creativity	27, 38, 41, 122, 134, 156, 166, 177, 178, 179, 180, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 200, 201, 233, 236, 240, 245, 246, 266, 276, 279, 291; Notes: 183, 269
hylomorphism	14, 15, 16
identity	1, 2, 3, 12, 15, 17, 23, 30, 37, 40, 41, 49, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 106, 115, 139, 167, 279, 282, 300, 302; Notes: 85; Epigraph: 5
illusionism	162
image schemas	36, 37
impermanence	3, 4, 21, 106, 109; Epigraph: 5, 9
in-formation	18, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32, 39, 108, 179
incompleteness result	120, 121, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131
individuation	10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 52, 54, 60, 61, 71, 100, 101, 102, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 131, 133, 134, 137, 138, 140, 143, 155, 197, 203, 248, 249, 250, 270, 271, 272, 273, 282; Notes: 20, 21
inequality regime	284
inexhaustibility	251
information	26, 27, 29, 30, 37, 38, 136, 184, 231, 232, 234, 235, 240, 243, 249
infrastructural functions	71, 188, 239, 240
inherited openness	72, 75, 296; Notes: 295
institutions as informational condensates	235, 236, 237, 238, 248, 264
intentional stance	126
interdependence	33, 98, 110, 111, 169
intermediate disturbance hypothesis	137
internal variance	224, 225, 226
intra-action	98, 140
invariant null interval	59, 92, 110, 118
joint-state priority	46, 84, 102
judgment	97, 249, 250; Notes: 304
kept difference	273
knitting	67, 73, 74, 96
language	2, 4, 7, 32, 69, 103, 120, 121, 122, 123, 126, 127, 128, 130, 134, 137, 156, 178, 179, 180, 181, 231, 232, 233, 234, 279
law of increasing functional information	179, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 281, 287; Notes: 204, 269
law-like or ordered indeterminacy	110, 122, 123, 125, 126, 129, 130, 131, 136, 137, 138, 293
lawfulness	3, 4, 8, 70, 85, 107, 110, 120, 122, 123, 124, 125, 128, 130, 131, 132, 136, 139, 144, 176, 177, 199, 204, 214, 217, 218, 219, 220, 226, 228, 229, 245, 246, 250, 261, 265, 284, 285, 287, 292, 293, 297, 300, 303, 304, 305
left wall	144, 219
libertarian free will	294, 295, 296, 298, 299, 303; Notes: 294, 295
life	2, 20, 21, 25, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 39, 143, 145, 146, 148, 155, 156, 159, 163, 164, 165, 166, 168, 169, 170, 172, 175, 176, 177, 186, 194, 196, 197, 198, 201, 203, 205, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 223, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 241, 243, 251, 258, 260, 261, 262, 265, 267, 268, 270, 277, 278, 281, 287, 288, 291, 300, 305; Notes: 21
LIFI+	220, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 236, 237, 240, 241, 242, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 252, 253, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 272
luck objection	296, 300, 303
many-worlds interpretation	72, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 86, 90, 91, 97, 101, 119, 252, 298
mass is not in spacetime	92, 93, 96
material inequality	237, 284
measurement problem	52, 53, 55, 59, 64, 72, 75, 76, 79, 80, 88, 89, 96; Notes: 66, 89
meme	178, 193, 195, 217, 231, 232, 233, 234, 238, 247
memory	69, 215, 223, 231, 234, 235, 279, 302, 303
merely conceivable	66, 67
meta-problem of consciousness	162
metabolism	21, 30, 145, 153, 177, 191, 205, 213, 214, 215, 216, 226, 230
metaphor	5, 7, 10, 15, 16, 22, 28, 36, 37, 69, 102, 103, 110, 115, 138, 159, 163, 184, 186, 187, 188, 191, 192, 210, 233, 251, 276, 277, 301
metastability	7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 40, 42, 43, 61, 100, 102, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 117, 118, 133, 134, 137, 138, 140, 143, 193, 197, 203, 212, 221, 249, 250, 267, 271, 272, 282
milieu	19, 20, 22, 28, 29, 31, 61, 109, 110, 111, 114, 189, 272; Notes: 20, 21
mineral evolution	208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 264, 266, 268
modal structuralism	54, 122, 131
modal structures	54, 122, 131, 295
model-relative irreducibility	156
modern evolutionary synthesis	145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151
multi-level selection	150, 151, 153, 154, 175
murmuration	35
natural selection	135, 144, 145, 146, 147, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 168, 174, 177, 196, 206, 213, 214, 217, 231, 239, 241, 242, 243, 245, 248, 262, 264, 267, 268, 280
neuronal avalanche	136, 184, 185
niche construction	147, 150, 154
no-world ontology	140
nomological machines	123
nonlocal quantum communication	87, 88
noumenal	105, 106
objective macroscopic irreversibility	69, 221, 222
objective statistical ontology	280, 282, 283, 284, 285, 300
objectivity	3, 69, 75, 76, 96, 102, 122, 125, 127, 139, 140, 232, 233, 243, 244, 245, 250, 251, 274, 280, 282, 283, 284, 285; Notes: 295
offer wave	52, 53, 54, 55, 58, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 72, 73, 74, 75, 81, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 101, 107, 109, 114, 132, 134, 138, 258; Notes: 75
one-world ontology	68, 77, 78, 107, 109, 110, 115, 119, 252
ontic indeterminacy	120, 121, 132, 133, 276, 302, 303; Notes: 295
ontic structural realism	84, 85, 122, 131, 139; Notes: 85
ontogenesis	16, 17, 19, 20, 27, 28, 40, 59, 60, 92, 100, 101, 106, 109, 110, 111, 114, 115, 118, 140
ontological irreducibility	156, 162, 163; Notes: 161, 162, 286
open generative order	119, 120
operating conditions of becoming	303
operationally closed	170
order for free	164, 165, 177
order–novelty dynamic balance	137, 138
organization	7, 15, 18, 22, 35, 61, 71, 73, 95, 112, 113, 114, 123, 137, 143, 156, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 175, 177, 178, 184, 187, 188, 190, 192, 194, 198, 199, 201, 202, 203, 204, 206, 207, 208, 209, 215, 217, 218, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 261, 262, 263, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 272, 273, 274, 278, 280, 281, 282, 285, 286, 288, 292, 294, 295, 296, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305; Notes: 105, 198
organizational retention	7, 85, 179, 180, 205, 206, 208, 217, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 226, 228, 229, 230, 231, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 247, 248, 249, 250, 253, 254, 261, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 279, 280, 281, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 292, 294, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305; Notes: 269
origin-of-life transition	156, 164, 165, 177, 213, 230
panarchy	137
participation	4, 12, 32, 40, 43, 54, 58, 59, 81, 104, 140, 196, 200, 206, 220, 237, 250, 256, 291
perception	32, 105, 106, 179, 196, 230, 301, 302
persistence	1, 3, 17, 41, 43, 61, 81, 82, 84, 85, 106, 108, 109, 113, 139, 143, 149, 151, 152, 159, 170, 175, 179, 180, 187, 191, 192, 194, 204, 205, 206, 207, 209, 210, 212, 213, 214, 216, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 225, 226, 229, 232, 236, 237, 239, 243, 244, 245, 246, 249, 251, 253, 254, 255, 257, 259, 260, 263, 264, 272, 273, 274, 277, 278, 279, 282, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 292, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305; Epigraph: 9
perspectival knowledge	Notes: 49
phenotypic plasticity	147, 150, 152, 154
phyletic gradualism	148, 149, 151, 154, 170, 171, 172
physical vacuum	22, 58, 92, 93, 196, 259; Notes: 259
pidgin-to-creole emergence	181
pluralistic constraint on homology	102, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 186, 187, 189, 268
polyphasic being	20, 21, 30, 100, 101
possible, the (real possibility)	1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 57, 59, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 89, 90, 92, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122, 125, 128, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136, 138, 139, 140, 141, 143, 144, 155, 156, 158, 159, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 174, 175, 176, 182, 183, 186, 187, 188, 193, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 211, 212, 213, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 222, 225, 228, 229, 230, 239, 240, 243, 244, 245, 249, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 263, 264, 265, 267, 268, 269, 270, 272, 273, 275, 276, 277, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305; Notes: 2, 29, 66, 67, 71, 286, 294; Epigraph: 43, 291
potentia	12, 45, 57, 65, 66, 67, 68, 72, 73, 74, 75, 99, 102, 106, 107, 113, 114, 115, 117, 118, 119, 120, 133, 134, 252, 253, 259, 270; Notes: 67, 259
power	10, 25, 73, 105, 106, 112, 161, 162, 163, 164, 167, 169, 269, 277, 278, 279, 283
power-law distribution	166, 180, 181, 184, 186, 189, 190
praxis	38, 201
precarious	17, 24, 25
predetermination	4, 9, 10, 47, 48, 107, 110, 117, 118, 120, 121, 122, 124, 125, 132, 133, 134, 138, 143, 145, 157, 160, 172, 173, 176, 199, 201, 219, 229, 245, 246, 257, 261, 275, 276, 281, 282, 285, 287, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303; Notes: 295
preferential attachment	181, 191
preferred basis problem	76, 77
preindividual	10, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, 32, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 60, 71, 100, 101, 102, 106, 107, 108, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 117, 131, 133, 134, 139, 140, 143, 155, 203, 249, 270, 271, 272; Notes: 3
present, the	8, 67, 68, 70, 73, 74, 99, 132, 139, 252; Notes: 66
principle of the identity of indiscernibles	83, 84, 85; Notes: 85
process philosophy	8, 10, 65, 69, 95, 96, 138, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 193, 199, 200, 257, 258, 287, 291
productive band of bounded openness	133, 134, 135, 137, 138
productive indeterminacy	7, 9, 95, 100, 110, 118, 120, 121, 124, 125, 127, 128, 129, 130, 132, 133, 134, 135, 137, 138, 139, 143, 155, 156, 158, 162, 163, 198, 199, 274, 286, 288, 292, 294, 295, 297, 299, 302, 303; Notes: 198
propensity	7, 57, 73, 107, 134, 143, 197, 255, 274, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 292, 300, 303, 304; Epigraph: 291
propensity to persist	268, 274, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 286, 287, 288, 292, 304
pseudotime	55, 56, 60, 63
psychic and collective individuation	18, 22, 31, 32, 33, 34, 38, 41
punctuated equilibrium	149, 150, 151, 154, 157, 170, 171, 172, 185
quantum Darwinism	102, 254, 255, 256
quantum field theory	52, 53, 57, 58, 62, 63, 82, 83, 88
quantum functional information	253, 254, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 266
quantum haecceity	81, 82, 83, 85
quantum indistinguishability	81, 83, 84, 85; Notes: 85
quantum nonlocality	46, 47, 48, 64, 65, 67, 78, 87, 88, 90, 102
quantum substratum	51, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 74, 78, 79, 82, 83, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 101, 105, 106, 107, 112, 114, 125, 203, 252, 257, 259; Notes: 259
quantum superposition	29, 45, 46, 55, 59, 64, 68, 88, 89, 96, 109, 115, 132, 133, 255; Notes: 89
quantum transaction	52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 102, 105, 106, 107, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 117, 118, 119, 132, 134, 139, 140, 220, 252, 253, 254, 255, 257, 258, 270, 299; Notes: 66, 89; Epigraph: 43
r > g constraint-schema	237, 284
radical empiricism	191, 192, 239
radical interpretation	126
rate–distortion theory	136
real patterns	131
realism	2, 3, 52, 55, 66, 67, 75, 76, 79, 80, 90, 97, 98, 101, 103, 106, 107, 139, 140, 243, 244, 245, 250, 251
reason	3, 26, 28, 123, 130, 196, 243, 246, 249, 250, 294, 296, 300, 302, 303
reciprocal causation	147, 150, 154
reflexivity	250
regime	113, 124, 125, 154, 156, 162, 163, 164, 167, 169, 179, 187, 199, 205, 206, 213, 220, 221, 223, 261, 262, 270, 272, 282, 301; Notes: 198
reiteration	7, 205, 261, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 288
relation	2, 3, 4, 5, 15, 20, 22, 23, 25, 32, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 60, 61, 69, 73, 79, 80, 83, 84, 85, 92, 95, 96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 105, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 117, 119, 120, 122, 130, 131, 138, 139, 140, 159, 168, 170, 191, 192, 220, 249, 258, 272, 282; Notes: 20, 21
relational knowledge	37, 41, 250, 251
relational persistence	40, 41, 191, 192, 282
relational quantum mechanics	50, 79, 80
relational self	23, 112, 113, 302
relations relate relations	41
relativistic transactional interpretation	29, 43, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 100, 101, 106, 109, 110, 112, 116, 132, 133, 134, 136, 138, 139, 252, 253, 257, 258; Notes: 75, 89, 100
representation	41, 48, 55, 79, 80, 84, 106, 107, 109, 114, 127, 139, 162, 191, 232, 252, 264; Notes: 75
reproduction	136, 145, 154, 164, 177, 178, 180, 213, 214, 217, 221, 222, 223, 225, 238, 243, 244, 246, 247, 250, 251, 255, 258, 263, 264, 265, 277, 278, 279, 284, 285, 287
residual potential	19, 21, 103, 104, 108, 109, 110, 115, 119, 155
resolution	7, 8, 10, 15, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 32, 38, 40, 42, 54, 73, 98, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 119, 132, 134, 139, 140, 143, 156, 162, 249, 252, 257, 272, 282, 299, 303; Notes: 71
resonance	25, 37, 38, 41, 158, 159
responsibility	4, 139, 266, 292, 297
retention with transformation	245, 246, 247
retentive stabilization	272, 273, 282, 302, 303, 304
reticulate evolutionary history	152, 153
retrocausality	51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 58, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 76, 86, 89, 90, 91, 96, 97
Ricci and Weyl curvature	93
Riedlian burden	169, 170
rule event	235
scale equivalence	28, 34, 42, 52, 60, 61, 74, 75, 102, 104, 105, 107, 108, 111, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 134, 135, 137, 157, 166, 176, 180, 181, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 192, 194, 195, 196, 198, 200, 203, 220, 223, 229, 230, 252, 259, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 268, 269; Notes: 105
scale invariance	166, 180, 181, 184, 186, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 268, 269
scale-free and small-world network structure	191
science	1, 2, 3, 13, 15, 28, 31, 32, 35, 36, 37, 41, 44, 48, 86, 87, 90, 97, 119, 120, 122, 123, 127, 130, 139, 149, 156, 158, 159, 160, 163, 183, 189, 191, 192, 201, 230, 232, 233, 234, 238, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 250, 251, 262, 265, 267, 276, 279, 280, 285, 301; Notes: 56, 88
scientific replicators and interactors	238, 243, 244, 246, 247, 285
sea, crest, wake	99
second law of thermodynamics	94, 95, 162, 163, 164, 194, 209, 217, 218, 221, 222, 223, 225, 226, 228, 260, 265, 272
selection	2, 9, 10, 54, 61, 72, 98, 101, 104, 105, 108, 109, 110, 113, 114, 115, 117, 122, 125, 131, 134, 135, 136, 138, 143, 145, 146, 147, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 164, 167, 168, 173, 174, 175, 177, 179, 180, 186, 187, 188, 193, 196, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 273, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 285, 287, 288, 289, 291, 292, 299, 300, 301, 303; Notes: 269
selection environments	235, 236, 237, 238, 243, 244, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 285
selection without selector	138, 139
selective coupling of scales	272, 273
self, the, as achieved continuity	4, 17, 23, 30, 32, 37, 39, 41, 42, 249, 277, 294, 295, 296, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305
self-aware cultural evolution	247, 248, 250, 266
self-modifying systems	250
self-organization	15, 19, 25, 26, 35, 108, 109, 125, 160, 162, 163, 164, 166, 167, 168, 177, 179, 180, 181, 184, 190, 192, 194, 202, 218, 221, 223, 238, 281, 282, 285, 296
self-organized criticality	35, 136, 166, 190
semantic and interpretive indeterminacy	120, 121, 126, 127
sensorimotor contingencies	302
sensorimotor organization	302
serendipitous innovation	182, 183, 185, 186
sigmoid adoption curve	192
situatedness	2, 233, 249, 250, 251, 304; Notes: 49
social inheritance	231, 235, 249
society of occasions	159, 278
spacetime	36, 51, 52, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 73, 74, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 104, 106, 107, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 118, 119, 124, 139, 140, 252, 299; Notes: 66, 259; Epigraph: 43
spandrel	174, 175
stability	2, 4, 17, 18, 24, 25, 31, 40, 131, 136, 137, 149, 154, 170, 171, 185, 193, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 213, 222, 223, 225, 227, 229, 254, 264, 271, 277, 278, 282, 286, 288, 292, 302, 303
stakes	4, 5, 277
stochastic resonance	134, 136, 137
string theory	78, 79
strong or radical emergence	161, 162; Notes: 161, 162
structured openness	103, 104, 108, 118, 293, 300, 302, 303, 304
superconductivity	161
synchronic emergence	162; Notes: 161, 162
technical individual	23, 32, 33, 34, 38, 39
technical individuation	28, 33, 34, 38, 39
technicity	32, 33, 34
technē	32, 33
temporal disparity	178, 284
temporal naturalism	70, 132
temporal stabilizer	284
the adjacent possible	144, 165, 166, 168, 174, 182, 183, 186, 187, 188, 200, 202, 228; Notes: 286
the laws of change	4, 95, 116, 139, 140, 156, 202, 251, 274, 288, 289, 292; Notes: 3
the real as resistance	2, 3, 251
the transindividual	13, 18, 22, 31, 32, 33, 34, 38, 41
threshold	7, 35, 42, 125, 161, 162, 163, 175, 177, 178, 187, 188, 193, 195, 197, 198, 200
time	1, 3, 36, 42, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 102, 104, 107, 110, 111, 112, 113, 115, 118, 123, 124, 125, 126, 132, 139, 146, 149, 150, 154, 158, 159, 163, 164, 170, 175, 178, 179, 180, 184, 185, 190, 194, 196, 201, 210, 212, 217, 218, 221, 222, 229, 231, 238, 241, 248, 252, 279, 281, 284, 292, 294; Notes: 66, 88, 89, 286
time symmetry	51, 52, 53, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 86, 94, 95, 96, 97, 163; Notes: 66
timeless naturalism	70, 132
top-down constraint	163, 167, 169, 179, 201, 202
trans-disciplinary synthesis	4, 104, 114, 116, 117, 119, 130, 138, 268, 270, 274, 288
transactional interpretation (TI)	50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 75, 76, 77, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 96; Notes: 100
transduction	12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 102, 108, 110, 111, 113, 114, 115, 117, 236, 249, 251
transductive thought	26, 27, 28, 37
trivial versus ontological possibility	66, 67, 71, 72, 74, 75; Notes: 67
umwelt	Notes: 21
uncertainty principle	46, 121, 124, 134
uncertainty–indeterminacy distinction	9, 46, 106, 110, 120, 121, 135
universal common descent	145, 148, 152, 153
universality in the physicists’ sense	189
value	34, 38, 183, 200, 201, 213, 230, 234, 248, 261, 279, 300, 304
viability	169, 174, 175, 227, 228, 253, 277
view from nowhere	4, 15, 79, 80
wavefunction collapse	45, 46, 52, 54, 55, 62, 64, 65, 67, 68, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 86, 88, 89, 95, 96, 122, 133, 253, 264; Notes: 66, 89
wave–particle duality	29, 45, 59, 68
weak emergence	156, 161; Notes: 161
wonder without credulity	5
world-making	2, 139
writing	232, 233, 234, 235
zero-force evolutionary law	223, 224, 225, 226, 229, 267
Zipf’s law	137, 180, 181
élan vital	159