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vs. impersonal quanta, 97
mystery of, 99
physiology of organisms and, 95
as set of dispositions, 239–240
qualitative abyss, 25, 26, 27
qualitative awareness, 97, 99, 213, 254, 303
qualitative consciousness, 55, 96, 104, 212, 243
qualitative discontinuity, 181, 186, 375
qualitative experience, 94, 97, 101, 103
quantum mechanics, 37, 80, 81, 83, 168, 176, 309–310
Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq Ṣadr al-Dīn al-, 458
Rahner, Karl, 433
Rāmānuja, 318
rational freedom, 161, 164, 165, 452
rational intelligibility, 415, 443
rational intentionality, 171, 452
rationality/rational thought. See reason/reasoning
rational methods of inquiry, 450
Razī, Fakhr al Dīn al-: Book of the Soul and the Spirit and Their Faculties, 113
reality: Aristotelian view of, 301
Cartesian picture of, 226
causes of, 456
coherence of, 72
commonsense view of, 470
emergent, 61
as event of formal causality, 37
extrinsic, 65
of a final cause, 439, 448
in itself, 66, 465
as manifestation of infinite reason, 470
mechanistic view of, 33, 91
mind and, 6, 36–37, 83, 100, 219, 270–271, 342, 369, 449, 450
mindless impulses and, 33, 86, 98
near and far horizons of, 421
patterns of, 77–78
perception of, 31–32, 35–36, 131
physicalist narrative of, 131
primordial, 48–49, 61
rational reconstruction of, 82–83
representation and, 64–65
scientific view of, 66
of “seeming,” 93
unity of, 114
realm of values, 292, 367, 382, 391, 415, 420, 422, 426, 427, 451
reason/reasoning: act of, 86, 115, 140, 147, 156
antinomies of, 437
capabilities of, 437
experience of, 274
illusion and, 152–153, 155
as inner access, 237
as irreducible thing, 172
love and, 19
by metaphor, 74
neurophysiological account of, 148–149
non-physical ways of, 151–152
speaking and, 261–262
structure of, 70, 445
syntax and semantics of, 220
reductionism, 170, 198, 300, 366, 413, 463, 464
regress to a first principle, 107
religious cultures, 457, 467
representation, 138, 153, 275
resemblance, 144, 145
reverse transcription, 392
RNA, 364–365, 392, 396
robot Shakey thought-experiment, 245–246
Romanticism, 481
Rosen, Robert, 326, 412, 413
Rosenberg, Alex, 203–205, 490n11
Russell, Bertrand, 299, 311, 491n29
Ruyer, Raymond, 210, 337, 347, 348, 349, 368, 381, 382
Ryle, Gilbert, 6
sākṣi (inner witness), 112, 115, 138
Śaṅkarā, 318, 434
Śaṅkarācāryaḥ, Ādi, 317
Schelling, F. W. J., 438
Schrödinger, Erwin, 409, 495n27
science: Aristotelian terminology in, 68–69
early modern, 64
epistemic limitation of, 32
mathematical abstraction and, 66
metaphysical orthodoxy of, 333–334
method of, 24, 64–65, 332–333
spiritual, 458
theory of, 198–199
science of mind, 457–458
scientific image, 36, 465
Searle, John, 135, 179, 187, 268
Chinese Room argument, 279–280, 281
seeds of mind, 346, 494n8
self-consciousness, 3, 32
self-creation, 382
self-imposed psychic dissonance, 91
Sellars, Wilfrid, 36, 239
semantic information, 272, 281, 288–289, 324, 407, 408, 409, 411
semantics: ontological ground of, 406
predisposition toward, 288
in symbolic thought, 289
syntax and, 147, 282, 283, 324, 331
seminal reasons, 494n8
sensations, 95, 96, 214
sense of unified subjectivity, 232
sensible assumptions, 70
Shannon, Claude, 359, 368
Shannon’s equations, 406, 407
Shapiro, James, 397, 398, 400, 410
signs: dual consistency of, 287
interpretation of, 282
learning and producing, 288
semantics of, 284, 288, 289
system of meaning, 287–288
similarity, 145
Skinner, B. F.: Walden Two, 205
soul: ancient and mediaeval perspective on, 51–52
body and, 47–48
ground of, 458
incorporeality of, 44
living organisms and, 366–367
vs. matter, 300–301
in original soul, 227
perception of reality and, 233
as seat of knowledge, 213
spirit, 49, 51–52, 118, 164, 317, 318, 459
within each of us, 457
in nature, 335–345, 438
spiritual agency, 455, 456
spiritual science, 458
spukhafte Fernwirkung (eerie action from afar), 486n11
stimulus and response, 99, 101, 102
strange loops, 488n21
Strawson, Galen, 249, 296, 300, 301, 311
structural invariance, 269
subjective consciousness, 102, 105, 109, 111, 251, 252
subjective experience, 31, 487n7
subjectivity: absolute openness to everything, 107
emergence of, 127
experience of, 106, 253
as irreducible thing, 172
narrative of continuous, 232
vs. objectivity, 311
physical reality and, 104
reflection on, 119
substance dualism, 33, 295
subvenient reality, 82, 188
Suhrawardī, Yahya ibn Habash, 318
supernaturalism, 249
supervenience: theory of, 216–221
supervenient reality, 82, 188, 189, 218, 305
svaprakāśa (self-illumination) of mind, 318
syllogism, 147, 148
symbiogenesis (cooperative evolution), 397–398
symbolic thought, 138–139, 289
symbols, 138, 263, 264, 279, 453
syntactic engine, 276, 278
syntactic information, 406, 408
syntax: definition, 406
ontological ground of, 323–324, 406
physical, 307
predisposition toward, 288
semantics and, 147, 282, 283, 289, 324, 331
in symbolic thought, 289
system-level phenomena, 198–199, 413
systems: entropic conditions of, 355, 357
systems biology, 9, 367
Tallis, Thomas: Spem in alium, 304
tangled hierarchies, 488n21
Tegmark, Max, 298
teleodynamic processes, 385, 386
teleology, 68, 75, 148, 328
Tertullian, 494n8
testudinal principle (principium testudinis). See turtle principle
Thales of Miletus, 38
theoretical cosmology, 84
thermodynamics, 168–169, 352, 383
thing in itself (Ding an sich), 63, 87, 150, 436, 437, 438
thinking substance (res cogitans), 338
third-person accounts of things, 23, 24, 30, 193, 194, 250–251
Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 494n8
Thompson, Evan: on autopoiesis, 381
on body, 377
on consciousness, 376, 378–379
on continuity between life and mind, 374
critique of, 387, 388, 391
on immanent purposiveness in living things, 373
on mindlike nature of life, 382
works of, 370
thought: comparison to software, 266
functionalist model of, 267, 278
intentional agency and, 139
linguistic structure of, 137–138, 139, 263, 264
meaning of, 56
non-subjective “functional” level of, 139
as semeiotic, 291
token identity, 194–195
Tononi, Giulio, 298
transcendental ego, 52, 106
transcendental ideals, 141, 428, 429, 430, 435–436
transition from lower to higher levels of order, 170
translation: act of, 117
truly fundamental laws, 414
Turing test, 249
Turner, J. Scott, 392
turtle principle, 255, 313, 421, 422, 491n29
type identity theories, 194
unconscious competences, 236, 247
unified apprehension of reality, 113, 115, 121, 231, 238
unified subjectivity, 67, 113, 232, 233, 421, 472
unity, 109–110, 111–112, 226, 232
unity of apprehension, 112–113, 166, 172, 186
unity of consciousness, 57, 109, 223, 227, 424, 439
unity of intentional subjectivity, 233
universal human grammar, 288
universal truths, 333
universe: duality of, 444
forms and purposes in, 84
intrinsic nature of, 312
meaning in, 127
mind and, 64, 443
mystery of existence of, 72
origin of, 84
rational relations and, 63
as reality in itself, 64
unthinking mechanisms, 265
user-interface, 100, 101, 149, 150, 152, 158, 207, 230
values, 292, 373, 420
Varela, Francisco, 371, 494n8
vertical causality of formation, 81
vimarśa (“detached reflection”), 108, 228
vitalism, 6, 38, 340
Wagner, Andreas, 391
wave-particle duality, 309–310
Weismann Barrier, 395, 396
will: inclination of natural and psychological, 434
limited aspirations of, 428
purpose of, 427
transcendental structure of, 447
willed will (la volonté voulue), 451–452
willing will (la volonté voulante), 451–452
witness. See inner witness
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 124
zombies, 256–257
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