Concept Index — The Real Book, Volume III

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Concept	Pages and other locators
aboutness	22, 23, 24
absolute absence	Notes: 393, 394, 395, 396; Epilogue: 349, 352, 354, 357, 358, 359, 360, 361
abstraction	2, 10, 12, 16, 23, 24, 28, 30, 31, 32, 34, 41, 50, 63, 64, 76, 77, 79, 81, 83, 84, 95, 98, 101, 102, 105, 106, 107, 112, 118, 124, 125, 129, 130, 131, 132, 135, 136, 138, 141, 142, 145, 146, 147, 148, 155, 156, 159, 170, 171, 177, 184, 185, 187, 193, 201, 203, 204, 218, 219, 223, 233, 238, 252, 258, 266, 280, 287, 291, 294, 296, 307, 308, 324, 330, 336, 337, 340; Epilogue: 350, 351, 354, 361; Reproduced AI exchange: 400
active archive	143, 146, 147, 148
active perceptual systems	156
actual entities	333
actual occasion	333
actual, the	5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 24, 31, 32, 33, 38, 52, 54, 55, 56, 59, 102, 103, 112, 132, 334, 335; Notes: 349, 356, 395; Epilogue: 352, 356, 357; Authorship account: 403, 404
actualization	3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 61, 101, 102, 103, 134, 327, 332, 334, 335; Notes: 38; Epilogue: 352, 358, 359
actualization as lawful selection under constraint	9, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60, 102
adaptive complexity	23, 24, 26, 33, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 47, 51, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 69, 71, 72, 73, 81, 82, 83, 87, 89, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 102, 103, 121, 122, 123, 130, 134, 147, 152, 172, 183, 186, 191, 193, 198, 203, 204, 210, 235, 241, 242, 244, 245, 285, 287, 294, 299, 305, 329
adaptivity	79, 157; Reproduced AI exchange: 398
affordances	155, 156, 173, 210, 218, 220, 222, 224, 228, 244, 279, 284, 285, 295; Reproduced AI exchange: 399, 400, 401
agency	47, 78, 85, 101, 147, 149, 161, 162, 163, 164, 170, 176, 210, 211, 215, 219, 222, 224, 225, 226, 227, 229, 230, 231, 233, 234, 242, 243, 244, 248, 250, 253, 256, 258, 259, 260, 262, 265, 266, 267, 274, 275, 279, 286, 290, 296, 297, 299, 301, 306, 307, 309, 310, 313, 319; Reproduced AI exchange: 400; Authorship account: 406; Living in a World of Relations: 345
agency belongs to the assemblage	162
AI alignment as co-evolution	Reproduced AI exchange: 401
AI as neighbor	167, 168, 197, 198; Reproduced AI exchange: 402
AI constitution for shared worlds	168, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200; Notes: 193, 199
answerability	1, 101, 115, 118, 128, 137, 148, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 166, 168, 170, 173, 174, 177, 180, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 193, 195, 197, 198, 200, 201, 205, 207, 209, 210, 211, 212, 215, 220, 221, 222, 227, 230, 231, 234, 241, 242, 244, 246, 247, 252, 255, 259, 260, 263, 265, 266, 267, 270, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 284, 285, 287, 290, 292, 294, 295, 297, 299, 300, 302, 303, 304, 305, 308, 309, 310, 312, 313, 314, 318, 320, 321, 322, 324, 342, 343; Reproduced AI exchange: 401; Authorship account: 403, 405, 406; Case Regimes table: 323
anti-entropy	329
anticipation	1, 28, 91, 125, 263, 305; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 400
anticipatory systems	Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 400
architectures of valuation	164, 165, 169; Notes: 165
archive intelligence	137, 143, 146, 147, 148, 149, 152, 153, 155, 158, 160, 173, 201; Authorship account: 405
archive success is not world success	153, 158, 186, 187; Case Regimes table: 323
artificial empathy	165, 166, 167, 213, 258, 259; Notes: 165, 167
artificial intelligence	1, 3, 76, 94, 95, 96, 98, 137, 138, 139, 140, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 156, 157, 158, 161, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 180, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 205, 265, 285, 286, 311; Notes: 143, 165, 170, 188; Reproduced AI exchange: 397, 398, 399, 400, 401, 402; Authorship account: 403, 405, 406
as-if body loop	165, 166
Asimov's hierarchy of laws	188, 190, 191, 192, 193, 195, 196, 200; Notes: 188
aspectual operator	132, 133, 134; Notes: 133
associated milieu / individual–milieu coupling	26, 28, 143, 144, 145, 146, 150, 151, 162, 169, 225, 283; Authorship account: 403, 405
asymmetry from uneven impossibility	36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48
attention	1, 2, 47, 115, 139, 142, 146, 150, 151, 152, 169, 176, 179, 180, 204, 209, 210, 218, 223, 225, 228, 229, 233, 234, 239, 242, 244, 245, 247, 248, 250, 260, 272, 277, 284, 285, 286, 290, 291, 295, 296, 300, 304, 318, 339, 342, 346; Notes: 2; Case Regimes table: 323
attention economy	142, 228, 260, 261, 285, 286
attunement	175, 191, 221, 222, 295, 296, 337
autocatalytic sets	122
autonomy	163, 167, 168, 169, 236, 238, 251, 259, 321; Notes: 251; Reproduced AI exchange: 399, 400, 401, 402
autopoiesis	157, 168, 197; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 400
banality and normalization of evil	180, 272, 273, 281, 318
becoming	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 43, 47, 48, 50, 51, 54, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 81, 85, 88, 93, 98, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 109, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 126, 128, 129, 130, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 139, 140, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 171, 173, 186, 190, 198, 200, 202, 205, 206, 207, 208, 210, 211, 218, 221, 224, 225, 226, 230, 231, 233, 235, 239, 241, 242, 244, 246, 258, 264, 266, 267, 271, 278, 283, 290, 292, 298, 302, 303, 304, 313, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 327, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 335, 337, 340, 341, 342, 346; Epilogue: 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 357, 361; Notes: 392, 393; Reproduced AI exchange: 399, 401, 402; Authorship account: 403, 404; Living in a World of Relations: 345
biased reasoning	159, 160; Notes: 160
bifurcation-point amplification	59, 60; Notes: 59
biological normativity	164, 169, 170; Reproduced AI exchange: 399
biological relativity	329
biosemiotics	80
blind variation and selective retention	92
bodily spatialization	155, 156
book shaped like its own subject	Authorship account: 404, 405
Born rule	55; Notes: 393
borrowed weighting	164, 165, 167, 168, 175, 197, 200; Notes: 165, 167
capability erosion	141, 147, 152, 161
capture of the conditions of judgment	174, 178, 179, 182, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 199, 223, 230, 235, 241, 242, 248, 249, 250, 259, 260, 261, 262, 266, 267, 272, 275, 279, 280, 281, 286, 287, 293, 294, 297, 298, 299, 309, 311, 313, 318
care	115, 157, 158, 164, 176, 177, 189, 197, 204, 213, 214, 216, 217, 218, 226, 227, 228, 231, 232, 233, 234, 245, 247, 255, 276, 291, 301, 317, 318, 321, 324, 332, 337; Case Regimes table: 323
category theory	338, 339
causal efficacy of possibility	16, 17, 22
causality as constraint	22, 100, 120, 121
causation as transmitted organization	13, 14, 15, 16, 17
closed to efficient causation	Reproduced AI exchange: 400
co-becoming	5, 33, 104, 111, 119, 134, 329
co-emergence of self and world	337
co-evolution of laws and reality	121, 122
cognition	60, 61, 63, 64, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 88, 103, 118, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 132, 133, 135, 140, 149, 156, 166, 167, 177, 213, 216, 233, 236, 336, 337, 338, 339; Notes: 133, 165; Reproduced AI exchange: 399, 400
combinatorial evolution of technology	94
compassion	166, 176, 177, 213, 240, 301
compossibility	165, 166, 168, 177, 190, 191, 196, 198, 200, 206, 211, 224, 229, 239, 241, 258, 259, 260, 261, 263, 266, 267, 272, 281, 290, 298, 299, 303, 306, 314, 317, 320, 321, 322; Living in a World of Relations: 345
compounding functionality	96, 97
conceptual blending	130, 338
conceptual drift	175, 176, 177
conceptual metaphor	68, 76, 77, 83, 84, 130
concrescence	333
concretization	144, 145, 283
confirmation wave	54, 55, 56, 102, 103, 334, 335; Notes: 38, 393
conjecture–refutation cycle	92
consequence without stakes	162, 188, 189, 190, 197
consequence-correction	153, 173, 174, 186, 187, 193, 197
consequential AI	139, 141, 162, 173, 178, 188, 189, 190, 196, 197, 202
constitutional AI	189
constitutional floor	188, 189, 190, 196, 197, 199
constitutive relationality	61, 104, 111, 134
constraint	2, 3, 6, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 60, 65, 66, 67, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 87, 88, 89, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 133, 134, 135, 136, 144, 145, 147, 148, 149, 155, 160, 163, 165, 166, 172, 186, 189, 195, 196, 197, 200, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 217, 218, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 232, 234, 235, 237, 238, 239, 241, 242, 243, 245, 246, 248, 249, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 265, 266, 267, 269, 270, 271, 273, 274, 276, 279, 281, 283, 284, 285, 287, 288, 290, 291, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 312, 313, 314, 317, 318, 320, 321, 322, 329, 340, 343; Notes: 165; Epilogue: 356; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 399, 401; Authorship account: 403, 404, 405; Living in a World of Relations: 345
constraint-directed organization	78, 79, 80
constraint-retention	22, 24, 27, 34, 89, 105, 147, 235, 263, 264, 329, 343
constraint-shaped probability landscape	11, 12, 22
container picture	63, 72, 76, 102, 129, 130, 133, 134, 135, 235, 236, 237, 244, 266, 329, 331, 332, 336, 338, 339, 340, 341, 346; Epilogue: 354, 355, 356, 357, 358, 361; Notes: 393, 394; Living in a World of Relations: 345
contestability	141, 174, 178, 179, 181, 182, 189, 190, 191, 192, 196, 198, 199, 200, 203, 219, 241, 242, 243, 248, 249, 250, 255, 260, 261, 262, 265, 266, 267, 272, 274, 279, 280, 281, 282, 287, 288, 291, 292, 294, 295, 297, 299, 305, 306, 308, 309, 311, 312, 313, 317, 318, 319, 322, 324; Case Regimes table: 323
contingency	36, 38, 47, 59, 60, 67, 69, 72, 73, 74, 88, 90, 97, 106, 111, 113, 132, 241, 252, 306, 319, 340; Notes: 59
continuity without denial of ending	346
control	56, 78, 95, 145, 162, 171, 172, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 204, 211, 249, 257, 262, 266, 277, 346; Notes: 204; Reproduced AI exchange: 400; Authorship account: 406; Case Regimes table: 323
convergent abduction	Notes: 395, 396; Epilogue: 357, 358, 359, 360, 361
correction ladder	158, 159, 186, 187
corrigibility	51, 65, 92, 101, 115, 117, 118, 128, 135, 136, 140, 145, 153, 154, 156, 157, 159, 160, 161, 162, 165, 166, 168, 170, 172, 173, 174, 175, 177, 184, 186, 187, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 204, 206, 207, 209, 210, 211, 220, 223, 227, 229, 230, 234, 237, 241, 242, 243, 244, 248, 250, 255, 258, 259, 261, 262, 264, 267, 276, 280, 281, 282, 285, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 312, 313, 314, 316, 317, 319, 320, 321, 322, 324; Notes: 168, 193, 199
corrigible mediation	173, 174, 175, 184, 192, 295, 296
cosmological expansion	107, 108
cosmotechnics	27, 28
creative advance	117; Reproduced AI exchange: 400, 402
creativity as Whiteheadian ultimate principle	333
criterial standing	235, 236, 237, 239, 240
cross-scale correspondence test	52, 53; Notes: 35
cultural evolution	63, 64, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 92, 96, 97, 98, 104, 121
cumulative retention effect	84
current AI without biological stakes	149, 156, 157, 158, 160, 166, 167, 168, 189, 190, 197; Reproduced AI exchange: 399, 400; Authorship account: 405
decoherence	58
decoherence as the cost of openness	56, 57, 58, 59
deep ecology	208, 209, 222, 240, 304
deep event schema	104, 105, 111, 112, 130, 131, 133, 134, 135
deep freedom	219, 220
delocalized AI embodiment	169, 170; Reproduced AI exchange: 401
dependent co-arising	343
derivative information	3, 4, 5, 33, 34, 148, 153, 249; Notes: 87
developmental bias	119, 120
diachronic emergence	73
diagnostic grammar for praxis	140, 152, 227, 241, 242, 296, 297, 298, 312, 321
dialects of lawfulness	118, 119
differential replication of linguistic variants	82, 83, 85, 86
digital object	26, 27, 28
direct perception	155, 156
directional retention	61, 118, 127, 128, 134, 230, 246, 263, 264
directionality (irreversibility)	17, 18, 20, 21, 46, 56, 60, 61, 65, 67, 70, 71, 74, 84, 87, 90, 97, 104, 110, 111, 116, 118, 121, 122, 127, 128, 131, 132, 134, 150, 152, 153, 158, 159, 172, 185, 186, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 196, 199, 203, 204, 206, 209, 210, 211, 221, 227, 229, 230, 235, 241, 244, 246, 247, 248, 250, 253, 254, 256, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 265, 269, 270, 271, 273, 274, 275, 281, 282, 284, 287, 288, 291, 292, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 304, 306, 309, 310, 311, 312, 318, 321, 322, 343; Notes: 73
disciplined seeing	2; Notes: 2
disindividuation	147, 151, 152
disparation	11, 37
dissipative adaptation	70, 71
dissipative individuation	17, 18, 19, 20
dissipative structures	17, 18, 19
distributed responsibility	162, 227, 246, 274, 275, 276, 277, 279, 280, 281, 294, 309, 310, 312, 321, 324
domination	191, 192, 196, 198, 199, 211, 220, 221, 223, 224, 228, 230, 234, 241, 243, 254, 256, 259, 262, 266, 267, 290, 298, 299, 307, 317, 318, 321; Living in a World of Relations: 345
dynamic resilience	21
ecological psychology	155, 156, 285; Reproduced AI exchange: 398
edge of chaos	92
edibility	240
effective exit	173, 174, 175, 178, 190, 191, 192, 196, 198, 199, 287
embodied constraint-enabled agency	47
embodied knowledge	127, 155, 156, 157, 161, 290
embodied organization	139, 140, 155, 156, 157, 158, 160, 163, 164; Reproduced AI exchange: 397, 399
embodied relational pattern	337
embodied scaffolding	152, 161, 217, 285, 286
embodiment	74, 77, 79, 81, 83, 84, 98, 127, 128, 129, 130, 133, 135, 136, 138, 139, 140, 143, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 163, 164, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 175, 177, 178, 185, 186, 189, 190, 197, 198, 199, 201, 205, 211, 213, 217, 221, 224, 227, 233, 234, 259, 324, 332, 333, 336, 337, 338, 340; Epilogue: 357; Reproduced AI exchange: 397, 398, 399, 400, 401; Authorship account: 404, 405
embodiment for AGI	167, 168; Reproduced AI exchange: 397, 398, 399, 400
emergence	1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, 33, 34, 36, 43, 46, 47, 49, 55, 58, 61, 62, 69, 71, 73, 74, 75, 78, 79, 80, 81, 84, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 100, 102, 103, 117, 118, 120, 121, 122, 126, 128, 130, 134, 153, 172, 183, 195, 200, 210, 211, 212, 234, 242, 243, 262, 270, 277, 278, 294, 297, 313, 328, 342, 346
emergent novelty	47, 61, 69, 71, 73, 89, 96, 97, 100, 118, 122, 123, 130, 134, 153, 172, 183, 195, 200, 211, 234, 242, 243, 269, 270, 288, 294
emotion	164, 189, 213, 214, 215, 216, 233, 260, 277, 337; Notes: 165
empathy	165, 166, 167, 177, 213, 214, 215, 216, 240, 250, 258, 259, 301; Notes: 165, 167
empirical equivalence	8, 9; Notes: 392
enabling work	291, 346
enacted values	220, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 314, 316, 321
enaction	130, 140, 156, 157, 161, 205, 207, 208, 209, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 231, 233, 252, 264, 266, 267, 294, 295, 296, 297, 300, 301, 302, 308, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321, 336, 337; Reproduced AI exchange: 397, 398, 400
enactive ecosophy	205, 207, 208, 209, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 231, 252, 264, 266, 267, 296, 297, 300, 301, 308, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321
enframing	147, 148, 171, 185
engineered peace	195, 257, 258, 283
entanglement	56, 57, 58; Epilogue: 353, 359, 360
entropy	17, 18, 19, 34, 70, 71, 93, 116
epigenetic inheritance	79
epistemic becoming	2, 89, 93, 98, 135, 136
epistemic diffusion	263, 264; Notes: 263
epistemic refusal	118, 135, 136
error threshold	72, 73
ethics of becoming	190, 205, 209, 210, 211, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 231, 252, 258, 264, 266, 267, 297, 300, 301, 308, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320
ethics of design	46, 113, 174, 203, 207, 210, 211, 227, 235, 245, 248, 260, 261, 262, 263, 274, 276, 279, 281, 282, 286, 287, 290, 291, 292, 294, 299, 301, 309, 310, 312, 319, 322; Case Regimes table: 323
ethics of identification and dependence	238
ethics of the conditions of ethics	248, 249, 250, 274, 279, 286, 289, 292, 297
events	6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 33, 35, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 101, 102, 129, 131, 132, 133, 135, 148, 331, 333, 334, 335; Notes: 356; Epilogue: 352, 356, 359
evolution	40, 41, 44, 47, 48, 51, 62, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 87, 92, 93, 94, 96, 98, 99, 100, 103, 104, 111, 116, 119, 120, 121, 123, 124, 125, 126, 135, 146, 206, 209, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 231, 241, 314, 317, 321, 337
evolutionary convergence	50, 82, 83, 99, 100
evolutionary epistemology	78, 92, 99, 103, 123, 124, 125, 126, 128, 135
evolutionary variation	72, 73, 75, 120
evolved moral capacities	79, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217
exaptation	73, 74, 82
explainable AI	173, 178, 192, 193, 287
extended criticality	Reproduced AI exchange: 398
external memory	27, 28, 29, 137, 139, 140, 142, 143, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 152, 153, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 164, 166, 171, 172, 173, 175, 180, 186, 189, 190, 192, 198, 201, 205, 213, 259, 336; Authorship account: 403, 404, 405
fairness	46, 182, 183, 190, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 220, 232, 282, 317, 318, 321; Case Regimes table: 323
fallacy of misplaced concreteness	16, 138, 141, 142, 147, 148, 155, 159, 170, 171, 184, 185, 193, 203, 204, 218, 223, 233, 238, 280, 287, 291, 294, 307, 324, 330; Epilogue: 350, 351, 354, 361; Case Regimes table: 323
fallibility	124, 171, 340
feeling	156, 157, 164, 165, 166, 167, 176, 177, 191, 240, 251, 259; Notes: 165, 167
field of potential	6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 25, 29, 30, 32, 34, 36, 37, 38, 43, 48, 53, 56, 61, 145, 278, 316, 320, 329, 332, 334; Epilogue: 351, 353, 357, 358, 360, 361; Notes: 394
field of sense	Notes: 355, 356, 394; Epilogue: 355, 356
flesh	337
foreclosure	190, 192, 206, 219, 220, 229, 239, 247, 258, 315, 318; Living in a World of Relations: 345
forgiveness	221, 270, 271, 273, 282, 293, 322; Notes: 271
form-taking	3, 4, 5, 13, 17, 18, 19, 31, 32, 33, 61, 249
formal undecidability	Notes: 393, 394; Epilogue: 355
formative friction	141, 151, 152, 160, 161, 174, 181, 182, 183; Case Regimes table: 323
frame	60, 61, 63, 64, 66, 67, 74, 75, 77, 80, 82, 84, 89, 94, 103, 133, 135, 175, 176, 177, 217, 218
freedom	88, 219, 220, 234, 245, 246, 247, 250, 253, 262, 305, 306, 313, 321
function	23, 27, 50, 53, 62, 64, 68, 69, 71, 72, 73, 75, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 87, 92, 96, 97, 100, 101, 119, 120, 123, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152, 157, 164, 165, 166, 172, 214, 232, 233, 241, 281, 285, 287, 342; Notes: 165, 217
functional information	23, 24, 26, 64, 69, 71, 81, 82, 83, 87, 92, 93, 123, 134
future as stakeholder	229, 246, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 282
future responsibility without longtermism	190, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267; Notes: 263
gedankenexperiment	163, 165, 186, 187, 259, 299, 300, 307, 308; Notes: 170
generalizable constraint regime	258, 259, 321
generative constraint	3, 100, 101, 117, 118, 127, 132, 207, 208, 224, 244, 245, 258, 329
generative realism	5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 32, 33, 205, 263, 264; Notes: 394, 395
grammar	3, 6, 9, 34, 35, 39, 45, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 63, 67, 68, 71, 72, 81, 82, 84, 85, 87, 88, 91, 93, 94, 98, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 109, 110, 111, 112, 114, 115, 116, 117, 119, 121, 122, 123, 127, 128, 129, 132, 134, 135, 136, 137, 140, 152, 221, 242, 259, 283, 296, 304, 316; Notes: 133
grammatical aspect	Notes: 133
hard problem of consciousness	163
heterochrony	74, 134, 247
hidden body of AI	149, 150
hierarchical constraint	65, 99, 100, 113, 114, 119, 120, 126
historical identity	Epilogue: 354
historical stabilization	121, 122, 127, 128, 134
holon	61, 120, 342
homeostasis	74, 79, 166, 167; Notes: 167
homunculus	162, 336
horizontal gene transfer	83
human creativity	88, 221, 269, 270, 341, 346
human measure	141
hylomorphism	7, 13, 37
hyperobjects	90, 310
I can	155, 163, 171, 233, 234
ideas as constraint operators	217, 218; Notes: 217
identity	5, 7, 21, 24, 26, 27, 28, 32, 61, 74, 75, 163, 289, 315, 316, 327, 330, 331, 335, 337, 339, 346; Epilogue: 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 358, 359, 360; Notes: 392, 393
image schemas	76, 77, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 134, 135, 156; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 400
impermanence	65, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 84, 87, 90, 97, 110, 111, 118, 121, 122, 131, 134, 148, 151, 172, 193, 204, 245, 289, 291, 294, 321, 346; Living in a World of Relations: 345
in-formation	3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 61, 77, 123, 139, 140, 144, 146, 148, 153, 207, 249, 329, 342, 347; Notes: 87; Epigraph: 4
incompleteness result	Notes: 394; Epilogue: 355
indefinite extensibility	Notes: 393, 394; Epilogue: 355
individuated self-modeling	163, 164
individuation	3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 43, 47, 48, 61, 72, 74, 75, 79, 101, 104, 111, 118, 119, 134, 139, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 163, 169, 172, 202, 203, 210, 211, 221, 223, 225, 226, 228, 242, 244, 258, 261, 272, 274, 278, 283, 293, 298, 301, 305, 306, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321, 327, 329, 331, 332, 333, 337, 340, 347; Epigraph: 4; Epilogue: 351, 352, 353, 358, 360, 361; Notes: 394; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 400; Authorship account: 403, 405
inequality regime	112, 113, 114
information	4, 5, 26, 27, 34, 39, 45, 52, 75, 80, 81, 87, 90, 91, 138, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150, 152, 155, 156, 161, 183, 186, 193, 194, 196, 201, 204, 210, 228, 229, 243, 247, 248, 249, 260, 261, 264, 284, 286, 287, 288, 289, 291, 292, 295, 298, 299, 307, 309, 312, 339, 342, 343; Notes: 38, 87; Case Regimes table: 323
infraethical design constraints	249, 279, 286, 287, 288, 292, 299
infraethics	248, 249, 260, 261, 274, 279, 285, 286, 287, 288, 292, 307
infrastructural functions	26, 27, 28, 29, 36, 97, 145, 149, 150, 162, 175, 195, 204, 210, 218, 220, 221, 224, 225, 241, 243, 245, 249, 250, 253, 254, 257, 258, 261, 266, 267, 274, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 291, 292, 293, 297, 299, 307, 309, 310, 314, 315, 316, 317, 319, 321, 322, 343
inherited openness	59, 60; Notes: 59
integrated information theory (IIT)	Reproduced AI exchange: 400
intelligence as sense-making	140, 156; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 399
interbeing	343
interdependence	47, 61, 65, 71, 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 83, 87, 90, 97, 104, 110, 111, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 127, 128, 131, 134, 151, 158, 163, 172, 186, 191, 195, 204, 211, 227, 230, 235, 241, 246, 247, 250, 252, 257, 262, 270, 272, 274, 275, 277, 280, 283, 284, 285, 294, 298, 301, 304, 305, 312, 321, 332, 333, 341, 343; Living in a World of Relations: 345
internal variance	41
interoception	167
intersubjectivity	165, 166
irreversible harm	159, 191, 192, 194, 195, 196, 197, 203, 204, 230, 246, 247, 254, 256, 259, 260, 261, 262, 269, 271, 272, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 298, 299, 300, 301, 309, 311, 312, 318
jagged intelligence	160, 161
judgment	150, 152, 158, 161, 164, 165, 168, 177, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 197, 198, 200, 201, 203, 204, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 229, 234, 241, 242, 248, 249, 250, 253, 259, 260, 261, 267, 269, 273, 274, 275, 277, 279, 280, 281, 286, 287, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 307, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 317, 318, 321, 322, 324; Authorship account: 404, 405, 406; Case Regimes table: 323
kept difference	23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 34, 89, 105, 147, 235, 263, 264, 343
language	39, 45, 50, 51, 54, 61, 67, 68, 76, 77, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 94, 98, 117, 119, 143, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 156, 158, 160, 163, 164, 170, 176, 177, 178, 225, 236, 237, 241, 266, 307, 336, 337, 338, 341; Notes: 133, 143; Reproduced AI exchange: 399, 400
law of increasing functional information	23, 24, 25, 26, 61, 62, 64, 66, 68, 69, 71, 73, 81, 82, 83, 87, 92, 93, 96, 123, 134, 147; Reproduced AI exchange: 400
law-like or ordered indeterminacy	53, 54
lawfulness	1, 2, 3, 14, 38, 39, 50, 53, 54, 62, 63, 74, 80, 81, 85, 86, 88, 89, 90, 93, 94, 96, 97, 98, 100, 115, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 128, 129, 131, 134, 148, 327
left wall	36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 48
leverage	266, 276, 277, 290, 291, 297, 299, 300, 301, 308, 310
life	1, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 31, 32, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 50, 62, 64, 66, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 92, 97, 116, 119, 122, 156, 157, 168, 229, 232, 247, 261, 266, 278, 298, 301, 302, 322, 331, 339, 343; Notes: 73; Epigraph: 253; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 400, 402; Living in a World of Relations: 345
life–mind continuity thesis	157
LIFI+	61, 62, 71, 81, 82, 87, 92, 93, 96, 134; Reproduced AI exchange: 400
logical qubit	24, 25, 56, 57
longtermism	190, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267; Notes: 263, 264
lure	176, 177, 192, 193, 217; Notes: 217
many-worlds interpretation	8, 9; Notes: 392
mass is not in spacetime	Epilogue: 356
material inequality	104, 105, 106, 107, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115
measurement problem	Notes: 392, 393
meme	86, 108, 109
memory	23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 32, 53, 67, 70, 76, 77, 79, 85, 97, 117, 134, 143, 146, 150, 162, 221, 236, 241, 257, 290, 292; Authorship account: 406
memory of becoming	23, 241
merely conceivable	Notes: 40, 356; Epilogue: 355, 356
meshwork	329, 338, 340, 341, 343, 346, 347; Living in a World of Relations: 345
meta-law	3, 51, 63, 65, 74, 80, 93, 98, 100, 115, 117, 121, 122, 128, 131, 134, 153, 171, 172, 195, 204, 209, 227, 229, 230, 235, 248, 249, 250, 262, 272, 273, 274, 279, 282, 286, 287, 288, 289, 292, 294, 297, 298, 299, 306, 307, 308, 309, 312, 317, 321
metabolism	19, 20, 23, 25, 27, 32, 70, 72, 75, 79, 149, 150, 169, 285, 301, 318, 333, 343
metaphor	26, 28, 51, 52, 53, 63, 64, 68, 74, 76, 77, 83, 84, 87, 88, 97, 98, 128, 130, 136, 147, 156, 163, 171, 173, 175, 176, 177, 217, 225, 248, 329, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340; Reproduced AI exchange: 398
metaphor as infrastructure	175
metastability	3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 47, 48, 72, 74, 77, 144, 145, 148, 153, 173, 210, 212, 226, 242, 278, 290, 319, 329, 331, 342; Epilogue: 358; Reproduced AI exchange: 400; Authorship account: 405
milieu	1, 5, 7, 11, 13, 19, 26, 27, 28, 32, 72, 74, 101, 131, 134, 137, 139, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 153, 154, 158, 160, 161, 162, 167, 169, 172, 173, 180, 186, 199, 200, 201, 202, 205, 210, 222, 225, 226, 233, 243, 258, 261, 266, 274, 275, 278, 283, 284, 285, 289, 298, 305, 316, 318, 322, 332; Authorship account: 403, 405, 406
mineral evolution	64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71
modal structures	39, 40
model collapse	153
model-in-a-world	143, 144, 145
model-relative irreducibility	120, 121
modulation	5, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20, 21, 32, 33
moral architecture	226, 227, 247, 248, 255, 271
moral attunement	175, 191, 221, 222, 295, 296
moral circle	235, 236, 237, 238, 239
moral ecology	218, 221, 222, 245, 298
moral error	231, 232, 234, 235
moral goods as ecological regularities	209, 216, 231, 232, 233, 314, 316, 321
moral learning	231, 234, 248, 249, 286, 289, 296, 297, 298
moral umwelt	222, 248, 249, 250, 284, 318
moral underdetermination of relation	212, 228, 229, 230, 231, 235, 244, 248, 321
more-than-human patients	240, 298, 301, 302
multi-speed history	150, 247, 248, 282, 311
murmuration	1, 328, 329, 342, 347
narrative cognition	84, 85
natural selection	51, 58, 64, 68, 92, 93, 96, 100, 121, 123, 124
neural role binding	82
neuronal avalanche	87
niche construction	44
no-world ontology	Notes: 349, 393, 394; Epilogue: 355
objectivity	9, 15, 40, 54, 55, 56, 127, 128, 129, 135, 136, 171, 185, 193, 198, 216, 217, 218, 223, 233
offer wave	54, 55, 56, 102, 103, 334, 335; Notes: 393; Epilogue: 359
one-world ontology	55, 102
ontic indeterminacy	9, 59, 60, 65, 118, 134; Epilogue: 352
ontic structural realism	5, 327, 330, 331; Notes: 392, 393
ontogenesis	4, 5, 11, 19, 23, 31, 62, 315
ontological impossibility	37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 45, 46; Notes: 40
ontological irreducibility	73
ontological memory	22, 23, 24, 241
ontology of the between	331
open generative order	121, 122
operating conditions of becoming	122, 123
operationally closed	157, 168, 197; Reproduced AI exchange: 399
option value	190, 264
orchestrated technē	Authorship account: 405, 406
order for free	122
order–novelty dynamic balance	92
organismic poetics	Reproduced AI exchange: 400
organism–environment transaction	148, 149, 152
organization	5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 43, 47, 48, 49, 50, 70, 71, 72, 73, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 86, 88, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95, 101, 103, 114, 118, 119, 120, 128, 129, 134, 144, 145, 146, 149, 151, 156, 157, 158, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 172, 174, 175, 198, 199, 205, 212, 222, 223, 224, 226, 227, 233, 234, 241, 255, 257, 277, 278, 279, 283, 290, 320, 329, 330, 331, 332, 342, 343; Reproduced AI exchange: 399; Authorship account: 403, 404, 405
organizational retention	6, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 33, 35, 64, 72, 73, 81, 89, 92, 96, 97, 101, 104, 105, 112, 113, 118, 122, 127, 128, 134, 147, 172, 224, 225, 241, 263, 299, 329
organology	28, 29, 146, 147, 151, 152
origin-of-life transition	122
other-regard functions	165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 175, 197, 198, 213, 258, 259; Notes: 167
partial structure	340
participation	1, 26, 27, 28, 29, 47, 55, 116, 117, 136, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152, 165, 166, 173, 176, 190, 202, 205, 207, 218, 220, 221, 222, 230, 232, 233, 234, 243, 248, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 267, 269, 273, 274, 277, 278, 286, 287, 290, 297, 298, 301, 302, 307, 309, 310, 313, 314, 315, 316, 321, 329, 338, 342, 346, 347; Reproduced AI exchange: 400; Authorship account: 405, 406; Epilogue: 350
participatory sense-making	165, 166, 221, 222, 277
perception	2, 14, 15, 61, 67, 70, 75, 85, 89, 90, 92, 124, 130, 132, 138, 146, 151, 155, 156, 158, 172, 175, 191, 200, 201, 219, 221, 222, 234, 235, 237, 243, 246, 295, 296, 316, 336, 337, 338; Reproduced AI exchange: 400
perception–action coupling	156
perceptual apprenticeship	2, 138
persistence	2, 3, 5, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32, 33, 42, 44, 51, 58, 62, 64, 69, 70, 74, 78, 90, 92, 98, 105, 106, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, 117, 122, 124, 131, 134, 145, 157, 163, 169, 170, 171, 193, 198, 199, 212, 220, 222, 224, 232, 240, 241, 248, 260, 263, 264, 279, 285, 286, 289, 305, 329, 331, 343, 347; Notes: 73, 392; Epilogue: 358
perspectival knowledge	127
physical vacuum	Notes: 395; Epilogue: 359, 360, 361
pidgin-to-creole emergence	82, 84
plan bipartite	Authorship account: 403, 404
pluralistic constraint on homology	101, 135, 136
plurality as structural condition	221, 248, 269, 272, 273, 318, 322
poiesis	Reproduced AI exchange: 400; Epigraph: 137
polyphasic being	315
polytemporality	74, 134
possible, the (real possibility)	3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 69, 70, 79, 87, 90, 101, 102, 103, 104, 112, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 128, 130, 132, 133, 134, 135, 144, 145, 190, 200, 207, 208, 212, 242, 243, 278, 316, 322, 332, 334, 335, 346; Notes: 10, 40, 349, 356, 394, 395; Epilogue: 349, 351, 352, 353, 354, 356, 357, 358, 359, 360, 361; Authorship account: 403, 404
potentia	8, 9, 10, 38, 40, 54, 102, 134, 334; Notes: 40, 356; Epilogue: 356, 359, 360
power	13, 14, 15, 47, 146, 147, 152, 162, 178, 184, 188, 189, 191, 192, 194, 196, 197, 219, 224, 228, 230, 246, 255, 259, 260, 271, 275, 276, 277, 281, 283, 284, 286, 287, 289, 311, 312, 316, 317, 319, 328, 342; Reproduced AI exchange: 400; Living in a World of Relations: 345
power-law distribution	48, 49, 64, 86, 87, 91, 108, 109
practical power to object	135, 136
praxis	1, 3, 137, 163, 173, 175, 185, 202, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 219, 221, 223, 227, 234, 242, 244, 252, 253, 258, 259, 260, 265, 266, 267, 274, 276, 279, 280, 281, 284, 285, 286, 288, 289, 291, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 305, 308, 313, 314, 315, 318, 320, 321; Epigraph: 205; Authorship account: 406
praxis triage	269, 276, 277, 279, 284, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 301, 303
precarious	74, 122, 123, 157, 167, 168, 197; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 399, 401
predetermination	47, 53, 54, 59, 60, 83, 114, 122, 241; Authorship account: 405
preferential attachment	108, 109
preindividual	6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 25, 29, 30, 32, 34, 36, 37, 43, 48, 61, 278, 315, 316, 320, 332; Notes: 394, 395; Epilogue: 351, 353, 358, 360, 361
present, the	10, 320; Notes: 10; Epilogue: 358
primary metaphor	76, 77, 83, 84
principle of the identity of indiscernibles	Notes: 392, 393
process philosophy	333
productive band of bounded openness	72, 73, 87, 92, 133
productive indeterminacy	9, 59, 60, 65, 72, 73, 88, 92, 97, 102, 118, 122, 123, 130, 133, 134, 172, 190, 200, 211, 242, 243, 288, 294
promise	163, 221, 255, 256, 270, 271, 273, 274, 282, 293, 296, 318, 322
propensity	54, 55
prototype-based categorization	339, 340
psychic and collective individuation	28, 29, 151, 152, 221, 256, 274, 278, 279, 315, 316, 317, 318
punctuated equilibrium	74, 96
quantum haecceity	Notes: 392, 393; Epilogue: 352, 353, 359, 360
quantum indistinguishability	335; Notes: 392, 393; Epilogue: 352, 353, 359, 360, 361
quantum nonlocality	56, 57, 58, 59, 103
quantum substratum	8, 9, 10, 54, 59, 60, 102; Notes: 10; Epilogue: 356, 358, 359, 361
quantum superposition	56, 57, 58, 132, 335; Epilogue: 356
quantum transaction	9, 37, 38, 54, 55, 56, 58, 101, 102, 103, 327, 334, 335; Notes: 38; Epilogue: 352, 359
quasi-truth	340
r > g constraint-schema	104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117
rapid differential	269, 277, 279, 295, 298, 299, 303
real goods	159, 170, 193, 194, 196, 197, 198, 200, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 216, 217, 218, 220, 221, 224, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 239, 240, 245, 280, 286, 302, 312, 314, 316, 317, 318, 319, 321, 324; Notes: 231
real patterns	5, 23, 24, 33, 92, 93, 329, 330, 331
realism	9, 15, 16, 23, 24, 54, 56, 92, 93, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 134, 135, 136, 155, 157, 158, 171
realism of freedom	234, 262
reason	63, 77, 80, 93, 98, 123, 124, 125, 126, 128, 138, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 164, 168, 169, 170, 184, 192, 195, 198, 199, 214, 217, 236, 237, 238, 241, 242, 243, 246, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 260, 261, 264, 271, 281, 292, 296, 297, 306, 311, 337; Notes: 170, 236, 393, 394, 395; Epilogue: 354
reciprocal causation	79
reciprocity as exposure	240
reclaiming	289, 290, 322
reconstruction	189, 192, 194, 207, 223, 276, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 299, 318, 320, 322
recurrent constraint-profile	118, 119, 133
reef-scale AI system	169, 198
reflexivity	3, 93, 98, 104, 117, 121, 122, 128, 129, 195, 218; Authorship account: 406
regime	11, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 45, 46, 71, 74, 78, 80, 96, 105, 110, 112, 113, 114, 115, 123, 128, 131, 134, 137, 141, 147, 148, 150, 157, 158, 159, 162, 166, 168, 171, 173, 174, 175, 178, 179, 180, 181, 183, 184, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 237, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 265, 266, 267, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 279, 280, 281, 282, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 324, 342, 343; Notes: 193; Authorship account: 406; Case Regimes table: 323; Living in a World of Relations: 345
regime as moral machine	210, 211, 244, 246, 280, 281, 283, 300, 308, 311
regime attunement	175, 221, 222, 295, 296
regime of correction	158, 159, 160
regime-centered explanation	162, 173, 174, 178, 191
regime-scaled universality	253, 255, 256, 257, 259, 293, 307, 314, 321
reiteration	5, 6, 7, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 32, 33, 34, 35, 53, 72, 73, 96, 101, 103, 112, 113, 130, 131, 134, 135, 241, 333, 342; Notes: 87
relation	1, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 21, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 43, 53, 57, 58, 59, 61, 72, 79, 104, 111, 119, 121, 131, 134, 140, 150, 151, 152, 156, 160, 161, 172, 206, 207, 208, 210, 212, 213, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 228, 229, 230, 231, 233, 235, 237, 238, 239, 244, 245, 248, 257, 258, 259, 260, 270, 290, 295, 302, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 346, 347; Epilogue: 350, 351, 353, 354, 358, 360; Notes: 392; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 399; Living in a World of Relations: 345
relational knowledge	156, 157, 170, 171
relational normativity	207, 208
relational persistence	339
relational personhood	162
relational self	163, 343, 346
relations relate relations	1, 327, 328, 330, 332, 333, 335, 337, 338, 339, 341, 347; Notes: 327; Epigraph: 327; Reproduced AI exchange: 399; Living in a World of Relations: 345
relativistic transactional interpretation	8, 9, 37, 38, 54, 55, 56, 101, 102, 103, 334; Notes: 38, 392, 393, 395, 396; Epilogue: 352, 353, 359, 361; Reproduced AI exchange: 400
repair	152, 174, 176, 177, 178, 186, 190, 192, 194, 203, 211, 219, 221, 227, 228, 229, 230, 232, 241, 243, 244, 245, 246, 248, 249, 265, 266, 271, 274, 275, 276, 279, 281, 282, 286, 287, 289, 290, 291, 292, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 301, 305, 306, 308, 309, 312, 313, 317, 318, 319, 321; Living in a World of Relations: 345
representation	5, 54, 57, 63, 76, 78, 79, 83, 95, 138, 139, 143, 147, 148, 149, 153, 155, 156, 157, 158, 160, 164, 165, 166, 167, 171, 172, 174, 176, 186, 191, 193, 194, 201, 213, 217, 247, 282, 311, 312, 340; Notes: 165
reproduction	23, 25, 71, 72, 74, 105, 108, 117, 213, 224, 225
residual potential	25
resolution	3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 29, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 43, 47, 56, 58, 77, 85, 118, 144, 145, 210, 212, 242, 278, 329, 332, 333, 334; Epilogue: 354, 358; Notes: 394
resonance	9, 10, 101, 114, 228, 316, 327, 334
responsibility	1, 115, 137, 142, 156, 157, 159, 160, 162, 163, 166, 168, 170, 173, 174, 177, 180, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 191, 193, 197, 198, 200, 201, 205, 207, 209, 210, 211, 212, 215, 220, 221, 222, 223, 227, 230, 231, 234, 241, 242, 244, 246, 247, 252, 255, 259, 260, 263, 265, 266, 267, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 284, 285, 286, 287, 290, 292, 294, 295, 297, 299, 300, 302, 303, 304, 305, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 318, 320, 321, 322, 324, 342, 343; Reproduced AI exchange: 401; Authorship account: 405, 406; Case Regimes table: 323
responsibility architecture	274, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 308
responsiveness across unequal timescales	193, 227, 247, 248, 282, 288, 298, 299, 311
retention with transformation	26, 27, 28, 29
retentive stabilization	21, 22, 163, 241
reticulate evolutionary history	82, 83
retrocausality	103; Notes: 38
reversibility, chiasm and écart	337
reversible correction	198, 199
rhythmic metastability	74
Riedlian burden	99, 100, 113, 119, 120, 121, 126, 127
rights-by-property	236, 237, 238, 239, 324
scale equivalence	3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 31, 32, 35, 41, 42, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 57, 58, 59, 60, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 83, 84, 91, 92, 93, 95, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 109, 114, 115, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 123, 127, 128, 129, 130, 135; Notes: 35
scale invariance	3, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 57, 59, 60, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 72, 82, 87, 91, 98, 100, 101, 102, 103, 109, 118, 119, 120, 121, 129
scale-free and small-world network structure	85, 91, 108, 109
science	2, 35, 51, 63, 64, 68, 76, 78, 89, 90, 92, 98, 104, 117, 123, 125, 126, 132, 135, 136, 140, 340
score becomes the gate	179, 180, 280, 311, 312
second law of thermodynamics	17, 18, 19, 70, 71, 93, 116
selection	5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 22, 23, 24, 26, 32, 34, 38, 41, 44, 51, 55, 56, 57, 58, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 73, 78, 81, 82, 85, 86, 89, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 113, 116, 118, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 130, 131, 134, 139, 140, 147, 151, 153, 161, 175, 180, 186, 193, 198, 207, 208, 209, 210, 214, 216, 217, 218, 220, 222, 226, 227, 229, 233, 235, 237, 239, 241, 242, 244, 250, 254, 260, 266, 267, 275, 276, 277, 278, 280, 281, 284, 290, 291, 292, 294, 295, 297, 299, 305, 308, 309, 310, 312, 315, 319, 321, 329, 332, 335; Epilogue: 356; Authorship account: 405, 406
selection environments	217, 218, 220, 241, 260, 261, 291, 297, 299, 305, 309, 310, 315, 319, 321
selection without selector	55, 56, 102
selective coupling of scales	11, 12
self, the, as achieved continuity	157, 161, 162, 163, 164, 167, 168, 169, 170, 193, 196, 198, 208, 209, 222, 304, 315, 316, 336, 337, 339, 341, 343, 346; Epilogue: 351, 353; Reproduced AI exchange: 400
self-aware cultural evolution	260, 261, 291, 310, 319
self-maintenance threshold for stakes	157, 167, 168, 197, 198
self-organization	1, 12, 13, 17, 19, 22, 56, 71, 76, 91, 92, 107, 108, 109, 122, 168, 277, 328
self-organized criticality	91, 92
self-taught amateurism	Authorship account: 403, 404
semiosis	80
sense-making	101, 156, 165, 166, 210, 211, 218, 222, 229, 230, 233, 248, 250, 260, 270, 279, 280, 288, 298, 321; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 399, 401
sensorimotor contingencies	156
serendipitous innovation	97
shared and plural control	171, 172, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 257, 258
sigmoid adoption curve	85, 86, 96
situatedness	2, 27, 28, 101, 124, 127, 147, 164, 221, 222, 223, 226, 290, 295, 302, 313
society of occasions	115, 332, 333
somatic marker	164, 165; Reproduced AI exchange: 398
somatic marker hypothesis	164; Reproduced AI exchange: 398
spacetime	54, 55, 56, 63, 65, 101, 102, 103; Epilogue: 352, 356, 358, 359; Notes: 393
speciesism	235, 236, 237; Notes: 236
spontaneous symmetry-breaking	102
stability	20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 57, 58, 69, 90, 92, 105, 110, 121, 186, 230, 262, 292, 294, 320, 331
stakes	140, 147, 149, 152, 157, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 175, 189, 190, 191, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 213, 258, 259, 296; Notes: 167, 199; Reproduced AI exchange: 399
standing-reserve	147, 148, 170, 171
stochastic parrot	143; Notes: 143; Epigraph: 143
striving-value	238, 239, 240
structurally coupled	155, 284, 337; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 399
structured openness	10, 11, 243, 332
subjects-of-a-life	236
symbolic recursion	87, 88
sympoiesis	302
system-level bureaucracy	180, 181, 182
technical ensemble	143, 144, 145, 149, 150, 151, 153, 162, 163, 172, 173
technical individual	26, 27, 143, 144, 145, 150, 151, 153, 162, 283
technical individuation	26, 27, 28, 32, 101, 139, 144, 145, 146, 148, 150, 151, 162, 283
technicity	143, 144, 145, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 158, 162, 171, 201, 209, 221, 222, 223, 246, 262, 263, 274, 283, 284, 304, 311, 313, 316, 318
technē	1, 3, 26, 27, 28, 29, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 207, 209, 213, 221, 222, 223, 225, 246, 250, 256, 261, 262, 263, 274, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 290, 291, 304, 311, 312, 313, 316, 318; Authorship account: 403, 405, 406
temporal disparity	40, 45, 65, 69, 70, 74, 77, 78, 87, 90, 97, 98, 104, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111, 113, 114, 116, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 131, 134, 150, 152, 172, 189, 194, 196, 204, 209, 210, 227, 246, 247, 248, 253, 258, 270, 272, 275, 277, 282, 285, 294, 297, 298, 300, 301, 304, 306, 310, 311, 312, 321
temporal scaffolds	28
temporal stabilizer	112, 113, 114
tentacular thinking	340
tertiary retention	28, 29, 146, 147
the human is not the innocent baseline	180, 181, 182, 183, 184
the laws of change	3, 50, 51, 64, 71, 72, 74, 78, 87, 88, 90, 97, 98, 100, 104, 110, 111, 112, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 134, 135, 137, 140, 152, 153, 158, 171, 172, 188, 189, 191, 200, 204, 205, 206, 209, 211, 217, 220, 223, 227, 230, 235, 241, 250, 256, 257, 267, 293, 294, 304, 318, 321; Notes: 396
the measurable standing in for the real	141, 142, 170, 171, 185, 186, 193, 203, 204, 218, 223, 291, 294, 309; Case Regimes table: 323
the real as resistance	23, 24, 125, 127, 128, 135, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 171, 174, 185, 186, 290
the Sun is not a metric	185, 186, 187, 193
the transindividual	26, 28, 29, 32, 151, 152, 221, 256, 266, 274, 275, 278, 279, 280, 295, 309, 312, 315, 316, 317, 318, 321
theōrein	1, 2, 3, 137, 139, 207; Notes: 2; Epigraph: 2
threshold	24, 57, 59, 73, 84, 89, 120, 122, 134, 210, 229, 241, 242, 246, 247, 259, 261, 262, 269, 271, 272, 279, 281, 283, 288, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 300, 301, 305, 306, 308, 310, 311, 312, 318, 321
time	9, 10, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 28, 35, 37, 48, 58, 59, 65, 69, 70, 74, 77, 78, 83, 84, 85, 87, 90, 96, 97, 98, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, 117, 118, 121, 122, 124, 131, 134, 140, 146, 150, 152, 157, 163, 171, 172, 174, 176, 186, 189, 194, 196, 197, 199, 203, 204, 207, 209, 210, 217, 227, 229, 230, 233, 241, 242, 245, 246, 247, 248, 250, 253, 258, 260, 261, 262, 263, 265, 269, 270, 272, 275, 277, 282, 284, 285, 287, 288, 290, 291, 292, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 300, 301, 304, 306, 310, 311, 312, 318, 321, 334, 336; Notes: 10, 38, 133, 392; Epilogue: 352, 353, 354, 356, 357, 358, 359
tool to milieu to regime	137, 150, 151, 173, 178, 191, 201, 205, 283, 284, 285
top-down constraint	100, 119, 120, 121
trans-disciplinary synthesis	94, 101, 121, 127
trans-perspectival invariant	127, 128, 135, 136; Notes: 396
transactional interpretation (TI)	54, 55, 56, 103, 334
transduction	6, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 32, 43, 45, 47, 77, 144, 145, 226, 242, 290, 316, 327, 332; Authorship account: 405
triage	175, 192, 194, 207, 210, 256, 259, 260, 262, 269, 271, 272, 276, 277, 278, 279, 284, 285, 288, 291, 292, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 303, 308, 312, 318, 319, 320
trivial versus ontological possibility	40; Notes: 40, 356
trust	171, 172, 173, 176, 178, 188, 194, 228, 229, 232, 233, 245, 246, 250, 260, 270, 280, 281, 282, 287, 290, 296, 308, 311, 313, 321; Living in a World of Relations: 345
truthmaker requirement	Notes: 395; Epilogue: 361
umwelt	222, 249, 284, 311, 318
uncertainty principle	57
understanding	139, 140, 146, 147, 151, 153, 157, 162, 178, 186, 203, 336, 338; Notes: 2, 143; Reproduced AI exchange: 397, 400
universality in the physicists’ sense	91
universalizability — viability of common architectures	251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 267, 281, 293, 307, 321
value	27, 90, 115, 124, 152, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 175, 185, 189, 190, 195, 197, 198, 208, 209, 210, 211, 216, 217, 218, 220, 227, 228, 229, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 238, 239, 240, 253, 259, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 270, 280, 284, 285, 290, 299, 304, 314, 316, 317, 321, 346; Notes: 165, 170, 263; Reproduced AI exchange: 397, 398, 399, 400
value continuity	169, 170
viability	36, 39, 43, 44, 48, 78, 79, 156, 157, 163, 167, 168, 197, 198, 199, 200, 229, 232, 239, 246, 247, 301; Notes: 199; Reproduced AI exchange: 398, 399, 400, 401
viability–measure distinction	198, 199; Notes: 199
viable agency	229, 234, 243, 250, 253, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 266, 267, 290, 297, 298, 309; Living in a World of Relations: 345
view from nowhere	127, 218, 221, 222; Notes: 393, 394; Epilogue: 355, 356
vulnerability	157, 163, 164, 166, 167, 168, 172, 216, 228, 229, 230, 238, 240, 243, 246, 248, 261, 265, 272, 280, 288, 307, 311, 328; Notes: 73, 167; Living in a World of Relations: 345
warrant	190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 197, 199
wavefunction collapse	8, 9, 55, 57, 102
wave–particle duality	93
world-coupling under consequence	139, 140, 153, 155, 157, 158, 159, 160, 163, 164, 166, 169, 185, 186; Reproduced AI exchange: 397
world-making	1, 135, 137, 138, 139, 188, 189, 190, 200, 202, 205, 207, 209, 210, 211, 218, 219, 227, 233, 240, 246, 248, 250, 252, 257, 258, 260, 261, 262, 263, 265, 266, 267, 270, 272, 273, 274, 279, 280, 281, 282, 287, 289, 293, 295, 296, 300, 305, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321; Reproduced AI exchange: 397, 400; Authorship account: 406
world-making imperative	188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 194, 195, 196, 198, 199, 200, 206, 207, 211, 219, 224, 229, 230, 239, 241, 242, 243, 247, 248, 250, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 269, 271, 272, 274, 281, 287, 288, 290, 293, 294, 295, 297, 298, 299, 300, 303, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 316, 317, 319, 320, 321, 322; Living in a World of Relations: 345
worldhood	155, 156; Authorship account: 405; Reproduced AI exchange: 398
writing	146, 147, 150, 151; Authorship account: 405, 406
zero-force evolutionary law	41, 42
Zipf’s law	86, 87