Supersense

INDEX

Illustrations or photographs are indicated by bold numbers

Africa, child rape ref1

afterlife ref1, ref2 See also death

agents ref1

ageing ref1

‘Air-Crib’ ref1, ref2

Allen, Woody ref1

‘Aloa, The Alligator Boy’ ref1, ref2

Alzheimer’s disease ref1

Anasazi tribe ref1

animals: cellular memory experiments ref1; genetic engineering of ref1; kosher ref1; Pavlov’s conditioning experiments ref1; souls, search for ref1; taxonomy ref1

animism ref1, ref2

apophenia ref1, ref2

‘apparent mental causation’ ref1

art: authenticity of ref1; prehistoric ref1, ref2, ref3–ref4

associative learning ref1, ref2

atheists ref1, ref2, ref3

Atran, Scott ref1

attachment items ref1

Auld Sod Export Company ref1

Auschwitz ref1

authenticity ref1

babies: analysis of natural world ref1; behaviourism ref1; biology understanding of ref1; brains of ref1; and cause and effect ref1; decoding of reality ref1; eye contact ref1; faces ref1; grasp reflex ref1, ref2, ref3; knowledge (of world) ref1; ‘Little Albert’ experiments ref1, ref2; magic tricks ref1; mind-reading ref1; and missing square pattern ref1; and moral behaviour ref1; movement ref1; reality, sense of ref1; reasoning ref1, ref2; ‘shapka’ experiment ref1; stepping reflex ref1; startle reflex ref1; sucking reflex ref1; unborn ref1 See also children; newborns

babyness ref1

‘Babies are Smarter Than You Think’ (Life) ref1

Barbarella ref1

Baron-Cohen, Simon ref1

Barrett, Justin ref1

Bartlett, Sir Frederick ref1

Báthory, Countess Erzsebet ref1

Beckham, David ref1

behaviour: conditioning mechanism ref1; irrational ref1; moral ref1; obsessive ref1, ref2; staring ref1, ref2 See also rituals

behaviourism ref1

beliefs ref1, ref2; afterlife ref1, ref2; ‘apparent mental causation’ ref1; children’s fantasy figures ref1, ref2; culture, spread by ref1, ref2; female bank worker example ref1; intuitive ref1; phobias ref1; sacred ref1, ref1, ref2; taboos ref1; unseen gaze ref1, ref2; vision, regarding ref1, ref2 See also religion

Bering, Jesse ref1

bestiality ref1

biology: children’s understanding of ref1; DNA ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; essence of life ref1; freaks ref1; genetic engineering ref1; mosaicism ref1, ref1 See also animals

Blackmore, Susan ref1

Blade Runner ref1

Blanc, Lori ref1

blankets, security ref1

Bloom, Paul ref1, ref2, ref3

Bouchard, Thomas ref1

Boyer, Pascal ref1

brain: Alzheimer’s disease ref1; amygdala ref1; DLPC ref1; children’s understanding of ref1; dopamine system ref1; environment and ref1; and facial recognition ref1; frontal lobe ref1, ref2; fusiform gyrus ref1, ref2; insula ref1; limbic system ref1; and mind ref1, ref2; natural reflexes of the ref1; neurotransmitters ref1; old age and ref1; and pattern-seeking ref1; pineal gland ref1; planning function ref1; rational and intuitive systems of thinking ref1; striatum ref1; visual cortex ref1; workings of ref1 See also mind design

Brandes, Bernd ref1

Bransgrove, Steve ref1, ref2

Breaking the Spell (Dennett) ref1

Brinkley, John R. ref1–ref2, ref3

Brown-Séquard, Charles Édouard ref1

Brugger, Peter ref1, ref2

Burke, Pat ref1

Buzan, Deborah Skinner ref1

Byron, Lord ref1

cannibalism ref1

Capgras syndrome ref1

cardigans: Fred West’s ref1, ref2, ref3; Mr Rogers’ ref1

Carey, Susan ref1

‘A Case of the Haunted Scrotum’, (Harding) ref1–ref2

The Cat in the Hat (Seuss) ref1

cause and effect ref1

cave paintings, prehistoric ref1, ref2

caves: Lascaux ref1; Niaux ref2

Chanel No. 5 ref1

Channel 4 ref1

Chesteron, G. K. ref1

children ref1, ref2; and anthropomorphism ref1; ‘apparent mental causation’ ref1; attachment items ref1; beliefs, adoption of ref1; as blank slates ref1; creationism, appeal of ref1, ref2; copy machine experiments ref1; death, understanding of ref1, ref2, ref3; essentialist thinking of ref1; and evolutionary theory ref1; fantasy beliefs of ref1, ref2; gullibility of ref1; intuitive theories used by ref1; life force, understanding of ref1, ref2; mind design in ref1; and promiscuous teleology ref1; reasoning of ref1; security blankets ref1; unseen gaze ref1; and wishful thinking ref1 See also, babies; newborns

chimera ref1

Chomsky, Noam ref1, ref2

church attendance ref1

Clear, Rosie ref1

Clarke, Arthur C. ref1

conditioning mechanism ref1

confirmation bias ref1

connectedness ref1

contagion: moral ref1; supernatural ref1

contamination: and culture ref1; and disgust ref1; essentialism and ref1; exorcism and ref1; killer’s cardigan ref1; Macbeth effect and ref1; and obsessive behaviour ref1, ref2; ‘once in contact, always in contact’ principle ref1; psychological ref1, ref2; and organ transplants ref1; Rozin’s research on ref1; and sex ref1

copy machine ref1, ref2, ref3

Cotard’s syndrome ref1

creation myths ref1

creationism ref1

creativity, and psychotic mania ref1

culture: belief spread through ref1; disgust ref1; and sex ref1; supernatural ideas originating in ref1, ref2, ref3; supernaturalism ref1

cosmetics ref1

Cutty Sark ref1

Dalai Lama ref1

Damasio, Antonio and Hannah ref1, ref2

Darwin, Charles ref1, ref2

Dawkins, Richard ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

death ref1, ref2 See also afterlife

decision-making ref1, ref2, ref3

dementia ref1

Dennett, Dan ref1; comparing religion to parasites ref1; ‘intentional stance’ ref1; religious service, attendance by ref1; on ‘Supers’ vs ‘Brights’ ref1

Descartes Baby (Bloom) ref1

Descartes, René ref1

disgust ref1, ref2, ref3

DNA: life essence ref1; cellular memories, transplanted ref1; chimera ref1; genetic engineering ref1; SARS virus ref1

Doctrine of Signatures ref1

Dokic, Jelena ref1

dopamine ref1

Dracula ref1

dualism ref1, ref2, ref3

duplication ref1, ref1

Ebay soul sale ref1

egocentricism ref1, ref2

‘Elephant Man’ ref1

Emin, Tracy ref1

emotions: and brain ref1; decision-making ref1; disgust ref1; regarding duplication ref1; killer’s cardigan response ref1; Rozin’s research on evil ref1, ref2; security blankets ref1; and sex ref1; social triggers ref1

The End of Faith (Harris) ref1

epilepsy ref1

essence of life ref1, ref2, ref3

essences ref1

essentialism ref1; and cannibalism ref1; cellular memories ref1; children’s understanding of ref1; contamination and ref1; and contemporary art ref1; duplication ref1; genetic engineering ref1; of kings and saints ref1; psychological ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; sex ref1, ref2

Euclid ref1

Evans, Margaret ref1

‘evil eye’ ref1

evil objects: contamination response to: ref1; exorcism of ref2

evolutionary theory ref1, ref2, ref3

exorcism ref1

experiences, bizarre ref1

experiments: behavioural ref1; cause and effect ref1; cellular memory ref1; copy box machine ref1; dopamine ref1; duplication ref1–ref2; on emotions ref1; epilepsy ref1; falling cannonballs ref1; flatworms ref1; gambling ref1; genetic engineering ref1; Good Samaritan ref1; gravity error ref1, ref2; honesty ref1; intuition ref1; magic trick ref1, ref2; mice ref1; missing square ref1; Sam’s ‘quiggle’ ref1, ref2; Scopes monkey ref1, ref2; sexual attraction ref1; ‘shapka’ ref1

eye contact ref1

faces ref1, ref2

Faces in the Clouds (Guthrie) ref1

Fairchild, Lydia ref1

fascination ref1 See also unseen gaze

Fearnley-Whittingstall, Hugh ref1

Fludd, Robert ref1–ref2

The Fly ref1

Fore tribe ref1

forgery: art ref1; relics ref1

Francis of Assisi, St ref1

freaks ref1

free will ref1

Fregoli’s syndrome ref1

Freud, Sigmund ref1, ref2

Gaia theory ref1

galvanic skin response ref1

Gammons, Ian and Lynda ref1

gaze: communication through ref1; direct ref1; fascination ref1; unseen ref2, ref3

genes: genetic engineering ref1; and religious belief ref1

genetic engineering ref1

ghosts ref1

Gilbert and George ref1

Gilbert, Dan ref1

The God Delusion (Dawkins) ref1

God is Not Great (Hitchens) ref1

gonads ref1

‘Great Chain of Being’ ref1

Gregory, Richard ref1

groups ref1, ref2

guilt ref1

‘gut feelings’ ref1

Guthrie, Stewart ref1

Gyatzo, Tenzin ref1

Hahnemann, Samuel ref1

Haidt, Jonathan ref1

hallucinations ref1, ref2

Hamer, Dean ref1

Hanks, Tom ref1

Harding, J. R. ref1

Harris, Sam ref1

Henry vacuum cleaner ref1–ref2

hermaphrodites ref1

heuristics ref1, ref2

Hitchens, Christopher ref1

Hitchens, Peter ref1

HIV/AIDS ref1, ref2

Hoffman, Albert ref1

holism see life force

Holocaust, Jewish ref1

homeopathy ref1, ref2

honesty ref1

horror stories: Countess Báthory ref1; Dracula ref1

houses, contaminated ref1, ref2

Hughes, Howard ref1

Hume, David ref1, ref2

Humphrey, Nick ref1, ref2

Hussein, Saddam ref1

ideal forms theory ref1

identity: Capgras syndrome ref1; identical twins ref1; mind ref1 See also life force; soul

‘If you Want to Get Ahead, Get a Theory’ (Karmiloff-Smith and Inhelder) ref1

illusion of explanatory depth ref1

infinitesimals, law of ref1

Inhelder, Barbel ref1

inhibition ref1

intentional stance ref1

intuitive theories ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Iraq war ref1

‘Irish dirt’ ref1

James, William ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Jenkins, Alan ref1

Johnson, Magic ref1

joint attention ref1

Kafka ref1

Karmilove-Smith, Annette ref1

Kass, Leon ref1

Keegan, Karen ref1

King, Brian ref1

Kopi Luwak ref1

kosher categories ref1

Kreb’s cycle ref1, ref2

Kukukukus tribe ref1

Kuru disease ref1

Ladies’ Home Journal ref1

language ref1, ref2

Le Bon, Gustav ref1

Le Loyer, Pierre ref1

Lennon, John ref1

Levi-Leleu, Michel ref1

Lewis-Williams, David ref1

Life ref1

life force ref1, ref2, ref3

Lindeman, Marjaana ref1

Linnaeus, Carl ref1

Little Albert ref1

Locke, John ref1

Lovelock, James ref1

Macbeth effect ref1, ref2

MacDougall, Dr Duncan ref1

magical ideation ref1, ref2

magical thinking, sympathetic ref1, ref2, ref3

Malham, Gareth ref1

mania ref1, ref2

Maori ref1

Marlar, Richard ref1

mass mentality ref1

The Matrix ref1

Mead, Margaret ref1

medicine, alternative ref1

memorabilia: collecting, reasons for ref1, ref2; duplication of ref1; killer cardigan ref1; provenance ref1, ref2; Steve Vee Bransgrove Collectables ref1, ref2–ref3; symbolic value attached to ref1

memory: and Alzheimer’s ref1; cellular ref1; working ref1

Merrick, Joseph ref1

The Metamorphosis (Kafka) ref1

The Mind in the Cave (Lewis-Williams) ref1

mind-reading ref1, ref2, ref3

mind design: definition ref1; cause and effect ref1; children, development in ref1; evolutionary psychology and ref1; experiences with ref1; obsessive behaviour ref1; patterns ref1; and prehistoric art ref1; wishful thinking ref1 See also brain

Minsky, Marvin ref1, ref2

Mister Rogers ref1

Montague, Read ref1

morphic resonance ref1

mosaicism ref1, ref2

My Bed (Emin) ref1

natural selection theory ref1

newborns: blank-slate metaphor ref1, ref2; brilliant ref1; reflexes of ref1; world experienced by ref1 See also babies; children

Newton’s Laws of Object Motion ref1

‘The Numskulls’ ref1–ref2

obsession ref1, ref2

‘once in contact, always in contact’ principle ref1

The Onion ref1

Opie, Peter and Iona ref1

oxytocin ref1

Paracelsus ref1

patterns: apophenia ref1, ref2; of events ref1; Gestalt psychology and ref1; missing square ref1–ref2; randomness of ref1

Pavlov, Ivan ref1

Penfield, Wilder ref1

Perera, Dr Samson ref1

phobias ref1

Piaget, Jean ref1, ref2

Pinker, Steven ref1

placebo effect ref1, ref2

plants and Doctrine of Signatures ref1

Plato ref1, ref2

Plimmer, Martin ref1

Plutarch ref1

Polidori, Dr John William ref1

The Prestige ref1

psychic secretion ref1

psychology: evolutionary ref1; Gestalt ref1, ref2

psychotic disorders ref1

Quinn, Marc ref1, ref2

quintessence ref1

Quirkology (Wiseman) ref1

rape, African children ref1

Raynor, Rosalie ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

reality: confirmation bias of ref1; dissociated disorders ref1; drugs, distortion by ref1; ideal forms and ref1; intuitive theories and ref1; ‘out of sight, out of mind’ ref1; psychotic mania ref1

reasoning ref1, ref2

reflexes, babies: grasp ref1, ref2, ref3; startle ref1; stepping ref1; sucking ref1;

religion: afterlife ref1, ref1; Christian fundamentalism ref1; church attendance ref1; creationism ref1; supernatural connection ref1; Dawkins’ condemnation of ref1, ref2; God’s ‘Great Chain of Being’ ref1; parasite, compared as ref1; relics ref1; rituals ref1; of scientists ref1, ref2; supernaturalism, as form of ref1; twins ref1;VMAT2 genes and ref1

rituals: athletes ref1; control, feeling of ref1; and culture ref1; exorcism ref1; Hongi ref1; obsession with ref1; religious ref1

Robocop ref1

Rogers, Fred ref1

Rozin, Paul ref1, ref2, ref3

Russ, Charles ref1

Saatchi, Charles ref1

sacredness ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Sanner, Margareta ref1, ref2

SARS virus ref1

schizophrenia ref1, ref2

science: advances in ref1; genetic manipulation ref1, ref2; and morphic resonance ref1; religion supernatural overlap ref1; secular beliefs of ref1; view of, public ref1

secular supernatural beliefs (Gallup poll) ref1

The Selfish Gene (Dawkins) ref1

Self (Quinn) ref1, ref2

Seligman, Martin ref1

Seuss, Dr ref1

Sexton, Jacob ref1

sex: cultural influences on ref1; physical responses ref1; sexual chemistry ref1; virility improvement ref1

Sheldrake, Rupert ref1

Shelley, Mary ref1

Shermer, Michael ref1

similars, law of ref1

Singer, Isaac Bashevis ref1

Skinner, B. F. ref1

Skinner, Deborah ref1–ref2

Smuts, Barbara ref1

somatic marker ref1

soul, the ref1, ref2, ref3

Spelke, Liz ref1

Spencer, Herbert ref1

Stoker, Bram ref1

storytelling, contrast effect of ref1

Subbotsky, Eugene ref1

Sykes, Alan and Susan ref1

Sylvia, Claire ref1

symbiosis ref1

taboos ref1 See also cannibalism

taxonomy ref1

teleology, promiscuous ref1

Tesla, Nikola ref1

Tetlock, Philip ref1

thinking, rational ref1

Thompson, D. C. ref1

Titchener, Edward ref1

transplants, organ: with animal parts ref1; and memories ref1

TV Dinners ref1

20Q ref1

twins ref1, ref2

universal grammar ref1

unseen gaze see gaze

Vadim, Roger ref1

‘The Vampyre’ (Byron) ref1

virgin cure ref1

vision ref1, ref2

vitalism see essence of life

voles, prairie ref1

Voronoff, Serge ref1

Vyse, Stuart ref1

Walsh, Stella ref1

Walt Disney company ref1

Wari tribe ref1

Watson, John ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

weapon salve ref1

Wegner, Dan ref1, ref2

West, Fred see cardigans; houses, contaminated

‘What are friends for?’ (Smuts) ref1

‘The Wisdom of Repugnance’ (Kass) ref1

Wiseman, Richard ref1

wishful thinking ref1

Young British Art movement ref1

The Young Ones ref1

Young, Pamela ref1–ref2

youthfulness, retaining ref1