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414 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
neurons 50, 98, 116
microtubules 281
nerve impulse speed 99
recovery time 121
synapse 119
Newcastle University 35
Newman, Max 221
Newton, Isaac 171, 319
Newton's Rings 321
New York University School of Medicine
12
Niels Bohr Institute 327
nitrocellulose 218
Nixon, Richard 194
Nobel, Alfred 365
Nobel Prize 30, 50, 100, 102, 119, 213,
326, 365
non-algorithmic xi
non-computable processes 373
non-computable thought 261, 282
noncomputational creativity xi
non-determinism 275, 282, 318
non-deterministic behavior 44
non-deterministic polynomial problems
165
noninvasive imaging techniques 11
nonverbal communication 84
Norvig, Peter 57
No Silver Bullet 237
No Silver Bullet - Essence and Accidents of
Software Engineering 231
Nova Institute 50
Nova Southeastern University 124
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 104
numbers
counting system 181
defining 199
Godel numbers 203
infinity 179
nature of 155
prime 156, 243, 343
random 188
real 186, 280
Turing numbers 190
zero 179
Nyquist, Harry xiii
O
Occam's Razor 68
omnipotence 340
omniscience 340
On Computable Numbers and
their Application to the
Entscheidungsproblem 211
One Laptop per Child 35, 82
one-time pad 216, 337
opium 55
optical illusions 113
oracle function 278
order-of-magnitude 164
O'Reilly, Edward 50
Organon 149
Orwell, George 178
Outliers 37
Oxford English Dictionary 86
Oxford University xi, 50, 149, 205, 282
P
paperclip test 298
paper tape 221
paradox xi, 68, 70, 114, 153, 203, 326
Barber paradox 155
EPR paradox 332
false 155
Kochen-Specker paradox 345
liar’s paradox 154
Russell paradox 155
Wiles paradox 247
Zeno’s paradox 154
parallel lines 179
Paramecium 123-126
particle accelerator 69
Pasteur Institute 188
pattern matching 49
Pavillon de Breteuil 28
PC revolution 236
PDP11-34 236
Peano axioms 199, 205
Peano, Giuseppe 197, 199
Pelmanism 28
pendulum 121
Penrose, Roger xi, 50, 56, 123, 205, 246,
261, 282, 309, 328
Penrose Steps 51, 113
Pentagon 79
people
living forever 20
Pérez, Shimon 81, 82
permutation of information 135
Persia 15
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