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- (M,R)-system
- aboutness
- absolute absence
- absorber theory and quantum direct-action theory
- abstraction
- action schema
- action-scaled affordances
- active archive
- active inference
- active perceptual systems
- active threshold boundary
- actual entities
- actual occasion
- actual, the
- actualization
- actualization as lawful selection under constraint
- actualization functor
- adaptive complexity
- adaptivity
- adhesive non-collapse
- affordance calibration
- affordance competition hypothesis
- affordance imagination
- affordances
- agency
- agency belongs to the assemblage
- agential cut
- agential realism
- AI alignment as co-evolution
- AI as neighbor
- AI constitution for shared worlds
- akrasia
- algorithmic incompressibility
- allostasis
- animalizing imagination
- animism
- answerability
- Anthropocene
- anti-entropy
- anticipation
- anticipatory systems
- anxiety
- architectures of valuation
- archive intelligence
- archive success is not world success
- artificial empathy
- artificial intelligence
- as-if body loop
- Asimov's hierarchy of laws
- aspectual operator
- associated milieu / individual–milieu coupling
- asymmetry from uneven impossibility
- attachment theory
- attention
- attention economy
- attunement
- autobiographical self
- autocatalytic sets
- autonomy
- autopoiesis
- background feeling
- banality and normalization of evil
- Bayesian brain hypothesis
- becoming
- being from the shore
- biased reasoning
- bifurcation-point amplification
- biological default state
- biological holism
- biological normativity
- biological relativity
- biosemiotics
- bisociation
- blind variation and selective retention
- bodily procedural trauma memory
- bodily spatialization
- body ego
- body is memory
- body means world
- body schema
- body-scaled affordances
- body–body problem
- book as posthumous address
- book shaped like its own subject
- Born rule
- Born-weight normalization
- borrowed weighting
- bounded and open-ended evolutionary systems
- brain as relational organ
- capability erosion
- capture of the conditions of judgment
- care
- categorical colimit
- category theory
- causal efficacy of possibility
- causality as constraint
- causation as transmitted organization
- Celestial Emporium classification
- center of concern
- ceteris-paribus lawfulness
- cladogenesis
- clinamen
- closed to efficient causation
- co-becoming
- co-emergence of self and world
- co-evolution of laws and reality
- cogito and its variations
- cogito ergo boom
- cognition
- coherent storage and retrieval
- combinatorial evolution of technology
- compassion
- complementarity
- compossibility
- compounding functionality
- conatus
- conceptual blending
- conceptual drift
- conceptual metaphor
- concrescence
- concretization
- confirmation wave
- conjecture–refutation cycle
- consequence without stakes
- consequence-correction
- consequential AI
- constitutional AI
- constitutional floor
- constitutive relationality
- constraint
- constraint-directed organization
- constraint-retention
- constraint-shaped probability landscape
- container picture
- contestability
- context-dependent embodiment effect
- contingency
- continuity without denial of ending
- control
- control objection
- convergent abduction
- conversion symptoms
- conviviality
- Copenhagen interpretation
- correction ladder
- corrigibility
- corrigible mediation
- cosmological expansion
- cosmological low-entropy boundary condition
- cosmotechnics
- countertransference
- creative advance
- creativity as Whiteheadian ultimate principle
- criterial standing
- criticality hypothesis
- cross-scale correspondence test
- cultural evolution
- cumulative cultural evolution and ratchet effect
- cumulative retention effect
- current AI without biological stakes
- dagger-compact handshake
- dappled world
- death drive
- decoherence
- decoherence as the cost of openness
- deconstruction
- deep ecology
- deep event schema
- deep freedom
- delocalized AI embodiment
- dependent co-arising
- derivative information
- destruction–creation cycle
- developmental bias
- developmental selection
- diachronic emergence
- diagnostic grammar for praxis
- diagrammatic reasoning
- dialects of lawfulness
- differential replication of linguistic variants
- digital object
- direct learning
- direct perception
- directional retention
- directionality (irreversibility)
- disciplined seeing
- DisCoCat
- disindividuation
- disparation
- dissipative adaptation
- dissipative individuation
- dissipative structures
- distributed responsibility
- domination
- double-slit experiment
- dynamic constancy
- dynamic core
- dynamic resilience
- dynamic touch
- ecological co-composition
- ecological commoning
- ecological dynamics
- ecological information
- ecological psychology
- ecosophy AS
- edge of chaos
- edibility
- education of attention
- effective exit
- effectivity
- embodied constraint-enabled agency
- embodied constraint-enabled agent-originated freedom
- embodied knowledge
- embodied organization
- embodied relational pattern
- embodied scaffolding
- embodied temporal directionality
- embodied unconscious
- embodiment
- embodiment for AGI
- emergence
- emergent novelty
- emotion
- emotion as action program
- emotion–feeling distinction
- empathy
- empirical equivalence
- empirical subjectivity
- enabling work
- enacted values
- enaction
- enactive ecosophy
- enframing
- engineered peace
- entanglement
- entropic gravity
- entropy
- epigenetic inheritance
- epistemic becoming
- epistemic diffusion
- epistemic indeterminacy
- epistemic irreducibility
- epistemic refusal
- error threshold
- ethics of becoming
- ethics of design
- ethics of identification and dependence
- ethics of the conditions of ethics
- events
- everliving fire
- evidentiary boundary
- evolution
- evolutionary convergence
- evolutionary developmental biology
- evolutionary epistemology
- evolutionary variation
- evolvability
- evolved moral capacities
- exaptation
- experiential selection
- explainable AI
- exploration–exploitation trade-off
- extended criticality
- extended evolutionary synthesis
- external memory
- extrabiological inheritance
- fairness
- faith is a cascade
- fallacy of misplaced concreteness
- fallibility
- feeling
- Fernández's staircase
- field of potential
- field of sense
- fixation
- flesh
- foreclosure
- forgiveness
- form-taking
- formal undecidability
- formative friction
- four-dimensional block
- frame
- frame circuit
- free will theorem
- free-energy principle
- freedom
- function
- functional information
- functional-information arrow
- future as stakeholder
- future responsibility without longtermism
- futurity under constraint
- gedankenexperiment
- general novelty engine
- generalizable constraint regime
- generative constraint
- generative hierarchy
- generative realism
- genetic code
- genetic drift
- gestalt circuit
- Gibbs's paradox
- gift-giving cycle
- global workspace
- good and bad breast
- good-enough mother
- Goodhart as a non-faithful functor
- grammar
- grammatical aspect
- growing universe
- hard problem of consciousness
- Hermitian adjoint
- heterochrony
- hidden body of AI
- hierarchical constraint
- historical identity
- historical stabilization
- historical universe
- holding environment
- holobiont and hologenome
- holographic principle
- holon
- homeostasis
- homeostatic feelings
- homology
- homunculus
- horizontal gene transfer
- hormesis
- human creativity
- human measure
- human–animal différance
- Hume’s gap (is–ought)
- hylomorphism
- hyperobjects
- I can
- ideas as constraint operators
- identity
- IIT cause–effect structure
- illusion problem
- illusionism
- image schemas
- impermanence
- implicit relational knowledge
- in-formation
- incompleteness result
- incompossibility as obstruction
- ind-object
- indefinite extensibility
- individuated self-modeling
- individuation
- inequality regime
- inexhaustibility
- information
- infraethical design constraints
- infraethics
- infrastructural functions
- inherited openness
- institutions as informational condensates
- integrated information theory (IIT)
- intelligence as sense-making
- intentional arc
- intentional stance
- interbeing
- intercorporeality
- interdependence
- intermediate disturbance hypothesis
- internal variance
- interoception
- intersubjectivity
- intra-action
- intrinsic temporal context signal
- invariant null interval
- irreversible harm
- jagged intelligence
- joint attention
- joint-state priority
- jo–ha–kyū
- judgment
- kept difference
- knitting
- language
- law of increasing functional information
- law-like or ordered indeterminacy
- lawfulness
- layered historical actuality
- left wall
- leverage
- libertarian free will
- life
- life–mind continuity thesis
- LIFI+
- linguistic agency
- lived body
- logical qubit
- longtermism
- loose connection
- luck objection
- lure
- many-worlds interpretation
- Markov blanket
- mass is not in spacetime
- material inequality
- maximal grip
- measurement problem
- meme
- memory
- memory of becoming
- merely conceivable
- meshwork
- meta-law
- meta-problem of consciousness
- metabolism
- metaphor
- metaphor as infrastructure
- metaphor circuit
- metastability
- milieu
- mineral evolution
- modal structuralism
- modal structures
- model collapse
- model-in-a-world
- model-relative irreducibility
- modeling relation
- modern evolutionary synthesis
- modulation
- moral architecture
- moral attunement
- moral circle
- moral ecology
- moral error
- moral goods as ecological regularities
- moral learning
- moral umwelt
- moral underdetermination of relation
- more-than-human patients
- multi-level selection
- multi-speed history
- murmuration
- mutual specification
- narrative cognition
- natural selection
- neural Darwinism (theory of neuronal group selection)
- neural role binding
- neural theory of meaning
- neural value system
- neuronal avalanche
- niche construction
- no-world ontology
- noa
- noh as presentation of essence
- nomological machines
- non-coincidence
- nonlocal quantum communication
- noumenal
- nursing couple
- object permanence
- object relations
- objective macroscopic irreversibility
- objective statistical ontology
- objectivity
- offer wave
- one-world ontology
- ontic indeterminacy
- ontic structural realism
- ontogenesis
- ontological impossibility
- ontological irreducibility
- ontological memory
- ontology of the between
- open actualization
- open generative order
- operating conditions of becoming
- operationally closed
- optic flow
- option value
- orchestrated technē
- order for free
- order–novelty dynamic balance
- organismic poetics
- organism–environment transaction
- organization
- organizational directedness
- organizational retention
- organology
- origin-of-life transition
- other-regard functions
- panarchy
- panpsychism
- partial structure
- participation
- participatory sense-making
- perception
- perception–action coupling
- perceptual apprenticeship
- perceptual categorization
- persistence
- perspectival knowledge
- phallogocentrism
- phenotypic plasticity
- phi (integrated-information measure)
- philosophy as personal, public inquiry
- phyletic gradualism
- physical vacuum
- pidgin-to-creole emergence
- plan bipartite
- play therapy
- pluralistic constraint on homology
- plurality as structural condition
- poetic objectivity
- poiesis
- point-surjectivity
- polyphasic being
- polytemporality
- possible, the (real possibility)
- potentia
- power
- power-law distribution
- practical power to object
- praxis
- praxis triage
- precarious
- precision-weighting
- predetermination
- predictive coding
- predictive processing
- predictive theory
- preferential attachment
- preferred basis problem
- preindividual
- present, the
- primary metaphor
- primordial feeling
- principle of the identity of indiscernibles
- process philosophy
- productive band of bounded openness
- productive indeterminacy
- productive temporal misfit
- promise
- propensity
- propensity to persist
- prospective control
- prototype-based categorization
- pseudotime
- psyche–soma unity
- psychic and collective individuation
- psychoanalysis as mediated self-conversation
- psychogalvanic reflex
- psychoid
- psychological complex
- psychosexual stages
- punctuated equilibrium
- qualia structure
- quantum Darwinism
- quantum field theory
- quantum functional information
- quantum haecceity
- quantum indistinguishability
- quantum nonlocality
- quantum substratum
- quantum superposition
- quantum transaction
- quasi-truth
- r > g constraint-schema
- radical empiricism
- radical interpretation
- rapid differential
- rate–distortion theory
- real goods
- real patterns
- realism
- realism of freedom
- reason
- reciprocal causation
- reciprocity as exposure
- reclaiming
- reconstruction
- recurrent constraint-profile
- recursive ecological connectivity
- reef-scale AI system
- reentry
- reflexivity
- regime
- regime as moral machine
- regime attunement
- regime of correction
- regime-centered explanation
- regime-scaled universality
- regression
- reiteration
- relation
- relational knowledge
- relational normativity
- relational persistence
- relational personhood
- relational quantum mechanics
- relational realism
- relational self
- relations relate relations
- relativistic transactional interpretation
- repair
- representation
- repression
- reproduction
- residual potential
- resolution
- resonance
- responsibility
- responsibility architecture
- responsiveness across unequal timescales
- retention and protention
- retention with transformation
- retentive stabilization
- reticulate evolutionary history
- retrocausality
- reverse course of ontogenesis
- reversibility, chiasm and écart
- reversible correction
- rhythmic metastability
- Ricci and Weyl curvature
- Riedlian burden
- rights-by-property
- ritual mediation and affective recovery of animality
- robotic affordance learning
- rule event
- scale equivalence
- scale invariance
- scale-free and small-world network structure
- science
- scientific replicators and interactors
- scientifiction
- score becomes the gate
- sea, crest, wake
- second law of thermodynamics
- selection
- selection environments
- selection without selector
- selective coupling of scales
- self, the, as achieved continuity
- self-aware cultural evolution
- self-evidencing
- self-maintenance threshold for stakes
- self-modifying systems
- self-organization
- self-organized criticality
- self-recognition
- self-taught amateurism
- semantic and interpretive indeterminacy
- semiosis
- sense-making
- sensorimotor contingencies
- sensorimotor organization
- sensorimotor stage
- sequential circuit (X-net)
- serendipitous innovation
- shared and plural control
- sigmoid adoption curve
- situatedness
- snake eating itself as renewal
- social inheritance
- society of occasions
- somatic map
- somatic marker
- somatic marker hypothesis
- somatic self
- spacetime
- spandrel
- speciesism
- spontaneous symmetry-breaking
- stability
- stakes
- standing-reserve
- stochastic parrot
- stochastic resonance
- string theory
- striving-value
- strong compossibility
- strong or radical emergence
- structurally coupled
- structured openness
- subjects-of-a-life
- superconductivity
- surplus of signification
- symbolic recursion
- symbolic simulation of possible futures
- sympoiesis
- synchronic emergence
- synchronicity
- system-level bureaucracy
- tau (optical time-to-contact invariant)
- technical ensemble
- technical individual
- technical individuation
- technicity
- technē
- temporal disparity
- temporal naturalism
- temporal scaffolds
- temporal stabilizer
- tentacular thinking
- tertiary retention
- the adjacent possible
- the human is not the innocent baseline
- the laws of change
- the measurable standing in for the real
- the real as resistance
- the Sun is not a metric
- the transindividual
- the unthought known
- theorem of non-closure
- theōrein
- threshold
- time
- time symmetry
- time-to-contact
- timeless naturalism
- tool to milieu to regime
- top-down constraint
- trans-disciplinary synthesis
- trans-perspectival invariant
- transactional interpretation (TI)
- transduction
- transductive thought
- transitional object
- triage
- trivial versus ontological possibility
- true self
- trust
- truthmaker requirement
- umwelt
- uncertainty principle
- uncertainty–indeterminacy distinction
- understanding
- universal common descent
- universality in the physicists’ sense
- universalizability — viability of common architectures
- value
- value continuity
- variational free energy
- viability
- viability valuation
- viability–measure distinction
- viable agency
- view from nowhere
- vocative and participatory language
- vulnerability
- warrant
- wavefunction collapse
- wave–particle duality
- weak emergence
- weak novelty
- wonder without credulity
- working model
- world-coupling under consequence
- world-ending as uprooted way of life
- world-making
- world-making imperative
- worldhood
- writing
- zero-force evolutionary law
- Zipf’s law
- zoeme
- élan vital
- ‘it thinks’