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The Brain (n.) deals exclusively with special-case experiences.
Change (n.) cannot be anticipated. There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Competence (n.) is a drive in human beings (a drive to demonstrate competence) alongside those of fear and longing.
Dymaxion (n.) is the use of technology and resources to maximum advantage, with minimal expenditure of energy and material.
An Energy slave (n.) is that quantity of energy (ability to do work) which, when used to construct and drive non-human infrastructure (machines, roads, power grids, fuel, draft animals, wind-driven pumps, etc.) replaces a unit of human labor (actual work).
Gestation (n.) is the lag between the conception of something and its birth in nature.
Humanity (n.) is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Information (n.) is a form of order inducing anti-entropy.
Love (n.) is, in contrast to truth, which consists of generalized principles, non-differentiable and integral.