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100			_aDennett, Daniel C. _98345
245			_aIntuition pumps and other tools for thinking
260			_aNew York _bW. W. Norton & Company _c2013
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505			_aCONTENTS 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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