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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Staring into the Darwinian Abyss | |
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Why Jerry Falwell Is Right | |
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The Replicators and the Vehicles | |
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What Kind of Robot Is a Person? | |
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Whose Goals Are Served by Our Behavior? | |
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All Vehicles Overboard! | |
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Your Genes Care More about You than You Should Care about Them! | |
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Escaping the Clutches of the Genes | |
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The Pivotal Insight: Putting People First | |
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A Brain at War with Itself | |
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Two Minds in One Brain | |
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The Autonomous Set of Systems (TASS): The Parts of Your Brain that Ignore You | |
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Characterizing the Analytic System: Avoiding the Homunculus Problem | |
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One Step at a Time: Figuring Out the Way the World Is with Language | |
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Hypothetical Thinking and Representational Complexity | |
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Processing without Awareness: There Are Martians in Your Brain! | |
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When the Different Kinds of Minds Conflict: The Override Function of the Analytic System | |
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The Brain on a Long Leash and the Brain on a Short Leash | |
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Try It Yourself-Can You Override TASS in the Famous Four-Card Selection Task and the Famous Linda Task? | |
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Don't Be Sphexish | |
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Putting the Vehicle First by Getting the Analytic System in the Driver's Seat | |
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The Robot's Secret Weapon | |
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Choosing Humans over Genes: How Instrumental Rationality and Evolutionary Adaptation Separate | |
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What It Means to Be Rational: Putting the Person (the Vehicle) First | |
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Fleshing Out Instrumental Rationality | |
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Evaluating Rationality: Are We Getting What We Want? | |
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The Biases of the Autonomous Brain: Characteristics of the Short-Leash Mind that Sometimes Cause Us Grief | |
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The Dangers of Positive Thinking: TASS Can't "Think of the Opposite" | |
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Now You Choose It-Now You Don't: Framing Effects Undermine the Notion of Human Rationality | |
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Can Evolutionary Psychology Rescue the Ideal of Human Rationality? | |
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The Fundamental Computational Biases of the Autonomous Brain | |
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The Evolutionary Adaptiveness of the Fundamental Computational Biases | |
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Evolutionary Reinterpretations of Responses on Heuristics and Biases Tasks | |
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The Fundamental Computational Biases and the Demands for Decontextualization in Modern Society | |
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The TASS Traps of the Modern World | |
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How Evolutionary Psychology Goes Wrong | |
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Modern Society as a Sodium Vapor Lamp | |
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Throwing Out the Vehicle with the Bathwater | |
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What Follows from the Fact that Mother Nature Isn't Nice | |
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Dysrationalia: Why So Many Smart People Do So Many Dumb Things | |
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Cognitive Capacities, Thinking Dispositions, and Levels of Analysis | |
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TASS Override and Levels of Processing | |
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The Great Rationality Debate: The Panglossian, Apologist, and Meliorist Positions Contrasted | |
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Dysrationalia: Dissolving the "Smart But Acting Dumb" Paradox | |
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Would You Rather Get What You Want Slowly or Get What You Don't Want Much Faster? | |
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Jack and His Jewish Problem | |
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The Panglossian's Lament: "If Human Cognition Is So Flawed, How Come We Got to the Moon?" | |
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From the Clutches of the Genes into the Clutches of the Memes | |
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Attack of the Memes: The Second Replicator | |
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Rationality, Science, and Meme Evaluation | |
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Reflectively Acquired Memes: The Neurathian Project of Meme Evaluation | |
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Personal Autonomy and Reflectively Acquired Memes | |
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Which Memes Are Good for Us? | |
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Why Memes Can Be Especially Nasty (Nastier than Genes Even!) | |
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The Ultimate Meme Trick: Why Your Memes Want You to Hate the Idea of Memes | |
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Memetic Concepts as Tools of Self-Examination | |
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Building Memeplex Self on a Level Playing Field: Memetics as an Epistemic Equalizer | |
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Evolutionary Psychology Rejects the Notion of Free-Floating Memes | |
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The Co-Adapted Meme Paradox | |
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A Soul without Mystery: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin | |
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Macromolecules and Mystery Juice: Looking for Meaning in All the Wrong Places | |
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Is Human Rationality Just an Extension of Chimpanzee Rationality? Context and Values in Human Judgment | |
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There's More to Life than Money-But There's More than Happiness Too: The Experience Machine | |
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Nozick on Symbolic Utility | |
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"It's Meaning Issue, Not a Money Issue": Expressive Rationality, Ethical Preferences, and Commitment | |
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Rising Above the Humean Nexus: Evaluating Our Desires | |
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Second-Order Desires and Preferences | |
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Achieving Rational Integration of Desires: Forming and Reflecting on Higher-Order Preferences | |
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Why Rats, Pigeons, and Chimps Are More Rational than Humans | |
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Escaping the Rationality of Constraint | |
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Two-Tiered Rationality Evaluation: A Legacy of Human Cognitive Architecture | |
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The Spookiness of Subpersonal Entities | |
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Desires Connected to Dollars: Another Case of Spooky Subpersonal Optimization | |
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The Need for Meta-Rationality | |
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The Formula for Personal Autonomy in the Face of Many Subpersonal Threats | |
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Are We up to the Task? Finding What to Value in Our Mental Lives | |
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Notes | |
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References | |
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Author Index | |