406 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
astrological clock 39, 42 asynchronous logic 22 Atkins v Virginia 28 ATM 233 ATP 98 audio field 291 audio processing system 114 auditory cortex 31 Australian English 86 Australian Outback 28 avatar xii axiom 198
Peano axioms 199, 205
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Babbage, Charles 16, 223 Bach, JS 7, 259 background context 86 Bader, Douglas ix bandwidth 288, 292 Barber paradox 155 Barrie, JM 128 Barrymore, Drew 12 Battleship 144
Baxa, Christoph 251 Beardsley, Dick 192 Beatles 102
Beijing 88
Bekenstein, Jacob 6, 132 Bell, Alexander Graham 18 Bell Corporation 216 Bell, John 322, 330, 333 Bell test experiment 333, 343 Berkeley University 248 bifocal glasses 152
Big Bang xii, 339
BigO 164
binary logic 150
Binsted, Kim 310
BIOS 225
Blackadder 266
Black Box experiments 67 black hole 132, 279 Bletchley Park 215
blind sight 12
Block Universe Hypothesis 317 body language 84, 288 Bohr, Niels 372
Bolt, Usain 31
bone cancer 20
Boolean logic 150, 152 Boole, George 150 Bootstrap 225 Borders 308 Borland 237 bosons 343 Bowie, David 151 brain 1, 11 accidents 11 aging 120 amygdala 11 anatomy 108 and plasticity 13 as acomputer 13, 14, 99, 120 as an exchange 18 auditory cortex 31 color perception 110 digesting starch 118 electrical pulse 98 emotions 116 glucose use 117 hearing 113 hippocampus 11, 32 imaging 99, 102 3D virtual 103 MRI 104 PET 107 seeing thought 108 learning 35-38 memory 11, 14 meninges 97 motor cortex 31 non-computable processes 373 noninvasive imaging techniques 11 organized like a filing cabinet 12 quantum effects 50, 283 quick tour 108 scanners 46 stroke damage 12 super-Turing 294 thinking 117 visual agnosia 12 brain damage 97 brainstorming 298 Branson, Richard 24 Bricklin, Dan 237 bridge 134 British General Strike 211 Britten, Benjamin 305 Brooks, Fred 229, 230, 231, 237
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