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| Introduction: "Stop Making Sense" | |
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| More Than What Meets the Eye: There's more to the world than what you see-or even could see | |
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| Neither You Will nor You Won't: Some ordinary statements about the future are neither true nor false | |
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| Forced to Be Free: You act freely despite the fact that you are caused to do perhaps everything you do, by events ultimately out of your control | |
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| God Is Not Just a Good Idea: You can prove the existence of God merely by thinking about God | |
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| Keeps Going, and Going, and Going… or Not?: The universe has either always existed, infinitely far back in time, or else had a first moment of creation-take your pick | |
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| God Has Not Been on Vacation Since the Original Creation: God didn't merely create the universe at the beginning but continuously re-creates it at every moment | |
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| "A Monstrous Thesis": Animals entirely lack thoughts, feelings, and sensations and instead are merely mindless automatons | |
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| True Colors: Physical objects, such as bodies, are not really colored. Rather, colors exist only in the minds of the perceivers | |
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| On Honoring Leeks and Onions: No ordinary things, such as minds and bodies, have any causal powers. Instead, God Himself directly causes everything that occurs | |
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| Synchronicity: Each thing in the universe runs entirely on its own internal program, in perfectly coordinated harmony with every other thing-with no causal interactions between them | |
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| To Be Is to Perceive or Be Perceived: There is no physical world: all that exists are minds and their perceptions | |
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| Stercus Accidit: Nothing can be explained, and you can't even make reasonable predictions about anything that will happen-even in the next few seconds | |
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| Philosopher, Psychologist-Antichrist?: Pretty much everything we believe about morality is false | |
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| Time Does Not Fly Even When You're Having Fun: The passage of time is merely an illusion: in fact, time is not real | |
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| The Voice in My Head Is Speaking Nonsense: There could be no such thing as a meaningful private language | |
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| Thinking Outside the (Cranial) Box: Thoughts are not, strictly speaking inside the head | |
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| The Incredulous Stare: There are other possible worlds-literally | |
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| Mind and Matter, Together Again at Last (Sort of)!: Conscious experience is associated with every physical process, all the way down to the subatomic level: mind is everywhere matter is, even down there | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |