TY  - GEN
AU  - Dennett, Daniel C.
TI  - Intuition pumps and other tools for thinking
SN  - 9780393348781
U1  - 121.3 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - W. W. Norton & Company
N1  - CONTENTS
Preface xiii
INTRODUCTION: What Is an Intuition Pump?  i
I.	A DOZEN GENERAL THINKING TOOLS 17
1.	Making Mistakes 19
2.	"By Parody of Reasoning": Using Reductio ad Absurdum   29
3.	Rapoport's Rules  33
4.	Sturgeon's Law  36
5.	Occam's Razor  38
6.	Occam's Broom  40
7.	Using Lay Audiences as Decoys  42
8.	Jootsing 45
9.	Three Species of Goulding: Rathering, Piling On, and the Gould Two-Step  48
10.	The "Surely" Operator: A Mental Block  53
11.	Rhetorical Questions  55
12.	What Is a Deepity?  56  
Summary  58
III. TOOLS FOR THINKING ABOUT MEANING 
OR CONTENT 59 
13. Murder in Trafalgar Square  61 
14. An Older Brother Living in Cleveland  65 
15. "Daddy Is a Doctor"  68 
16. Manifest Image and Scientific Image  69 
17. Folk Psychology  73 
18. The Intentional Stance  77 
19. The Personal/Sub-personal Distinction  86
20. A Cascade of Homunculi  91 
21. The Sorta Operator  96 
22. Wonder Tissue  98
23. Trapped in the Robot Control Room  102
IV.	AN INTERLUDE ABOUT COMPUTERS 107
24.	The Seven Secrets of Computer Power Revealed 109
25.	Virtual Machines  133
26.	Algorithms 140
27.	Automating the Elevator 143  
Summary  148
V.	MORE TOOLS ABOUT MEANING 151
28.	A Thing about Redheads  153
29.	The Wandering Two-Bitser, Twin Earth, and the Giant Robot  157
30.	Radical Translation and a Quinian Crossword Puzzle  175
31.	Semantic Engines and Syntactic Engines  178
32.	Swampman Meets a Cow-Shark  180
33.	Two Black Boxes  184 
Summary   197
VI.  TOOLS FOR THINKING ABOUT EVOLUTION 201
34.	Universal Acid  203
35.	The Library of Mendel: Vast and Vanishing  205
36.	Genes as Words or as Subroutines  214
37.	The Tree of Life  217
38.	Cranes and Skyhooks, Lifting in Design Space  218
39.	Competence without Comprehension  232
40.	Free-Floating Rationales  234
41.	Do Locusts Understand Prime Numbers?  236 
42.	How to Explain Stotting  238 
43.	Beware of the Prime Mammal 240
44.	When Does Speciation Occur? 244
45.	Widowmakers, Mitochondrial Eve, and Retrospective Coronations  247
46.	Cycles  252
47.	What Does the Frog's Eye Tell the Frog's Brain?  256
48.	Leaping through Space in the Library of Babel  258
49.	Who Is the Author of Spamlet?  260
50.	Noise in the Virtual Hotel  267
51.	Herb, Alice, and Hal, the Baby  271
52.	Memes 274  
Summary  277 
VII.TOOLS FOR THINKING ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS 279
53.	Two Counter-images  281
54.	The Zombic Hunch  283
55.	Zombies and Zimboes  288
56.	The Curse of the Cauliflower  296
57.	Vim: How Much Is That in "Real Money"?  299
58.	The Sad Case of Mr. Clapgras  302
59.	The Tuned Deck  310
60.	The Chinese Room  319
61.	The Teleclone Fall from Mars to Earth  330
62.	The Self as the Center of Narrative Gravity  333
63.	Heterophenomenology  341
64.	Mary the Color Scientist: A Boom Crutch Unveiled 347 
Summary 352
VIII.	TOOLS FOR THINKING ABOUT FREE WILL 355
65.	A Truly Nefarious Neurosurgeon  357
66.	A Deterministic Toy: Conway's Game of Life  359 
67.	Rock, Paper, and Scissors  370 
68.	Two Lotteries 375
69.	 Inert Historical Facts 378
70.	A Computer Chess Marathon 384 
71.	Ultimate Responsibility 393 
72.	Sphexishness 397 
73.	The Boys from Brazil: Another Boom Crutch 401
Summary  406 
IX. WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A PHILOSOPHER? 409
74.	A Faustian Bargain 411
75.	Philosophy as Naive Auto-anthropology 414
76.	Higher-Order Truths of Chmess 418
77.	The 10 Percent That's Good 425 
X.	USE THE TOOLS. TRY HARDER. 429
XI.	WHAT GOT LEFT OUT 431
Appendix:  Solutions to Register Machine Problems   433 
Sources  445 
Bibliography  451 
Credits  461 
Index  463
 


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