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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: What Is an Intuition Pump? | |
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| A Dozen General Thinking Tools | |
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| Making Mistakes | |
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| "By Parody of Reasoning": Using Reductio ad Absurdum | |
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| Rapoport's Rules | |
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| Sturgeon's Law | |
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| Occam's Razor | |
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| Occam's Broom | |
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| Using Lay Audiences as Decoys | |
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| Jootsing | |
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| Three Species of Goulding: Rathering, Piling On, and the Gould Two-Step | |
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| The "Surely" Operator: A Mental Block | |
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| Rhetorical Questions | |
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| What Is a Deepity? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Tools for Thinking About Meaning or Content | |
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| Murder in Trafalgar Square | |
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| An Older Brother Living in Cleveland | |
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| "Daddy Is a Doctor" | |
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| Manifest Image and Scientific Image | |
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| Folk Psychology | |
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| The Intentional Stance | |
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| The Personal/Sub-personal Distinction | |
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| A Cascade of Homunculi | |
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| The Sorta Operator | |
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| Wonder Tissue | |
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| Trapped in the Robot Control Room | |
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| An Interlude About Computers | |
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| The Seven Secrets of Computer Power Revealed | |
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| Virtual Machines | |
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| Algorithms | |
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| Automating the Elevator | |
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| Summary | |
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| More Tools About Meaning | |
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| A Thing about Redheads | |
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| The Wandering Two-Bitser, Twin Earth, and the Giant Robot | |
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| Radical Translation and a Quinian Crossword Puzzle | |
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| Semantic Engines and Syntactic Engines | |
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| Swampman Meets a Cow-Shark | |
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| Two Black Boxes | |
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| Summary | |
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| Tools for Thinking About Evolution | |
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| Universal Acid | |
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| The Library of Mendel: Vast and Vanishing | |
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| Genes as Words or as Subroutines | |
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| The Tree of Life | |
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| Cranes and Skyhooks, Lifting in Design Space | |
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| Competence without Comprehension | |
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| Free-Floating Rationales | |
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| Do Locusts Understand Prime Numbers? | |
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| How to Explain Stotting | |
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| Beware of the Prime Mammal | |
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| When Does Speciation Occur? | |
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| Widowmakers, Mitochondrial Eve, and Retrospective Coronations | |
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| Cycles | |
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| What Does the Frog's Eye Tell the Frog's Brain? | |
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| Leaping through Space in the Library of Babel | |
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| Who Is the Author of Spamlet? | |
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| Noise in the Virtual Hotel | |
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| Herb, Alice, and Hal, the Baby | |
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| Memes | |
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| Summary | |
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| Tools for Thinking about Consciousness | |
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| Two Counter-images | |
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| The Zombie Hunch | |
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| Zombies and Zimboes | |
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| The Curse of the Cauliflower | |
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| Vim: How Much Is That in "Real Money"? | |
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| The Sad Case of Mr. Clapgras | |
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| The Tuned Deck | |
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| The Chinese Room | |
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| The Teleclone Fall from Mars to Earth | |
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| The Self as the Center of Narrative Gravity | |
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| Heterophenomenology | |
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| Mary the Color Scientist: A Boom Crutch Unveiled | |
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| Summary | |
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| Tools for Thinking About Free Will | |
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| A Truly Nefarious Neurosurgeon | |
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| A Deterministic Toy: Conway's Game of Life | |
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| Rock, Paper, and Scissors | |
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| Two Lotteries | |
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| Inert Historical Facts | |
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| A Computer Chess Marathon | |
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| Ultimate Responsibility | |
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| Sphexishness | |
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| The Boys from Brazil: Another Boom Crutch | |
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| Summary | |
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| What is it Like to be a Philosopher? | |
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| A Faustian Bargain | |
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| Philosophy as Na�ve Auto-anthropology | |
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| Higher-Order Truths of Chmess | |
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| The 10 Percent That's Good | |
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| Use the Tools Try Harder | |
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| What Got Left Out | |
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| Appendix: Solutions to Register Machine Problems | |
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| Sources | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |