Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking by Dennett, Daniel C. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Dedication Preface I. INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS AN INTUITION PUMP? II. A DOZEN GENERAL THINKING TOOLS

1. Making Mistakes 2. “By Parody of Reasoning”: Using Reductio ad Absurdum 3. Rapoport’s Rules 4. Sturgeon’s Law 5. Occam’s Razor 6. Occam’s Broom 7. Using Lay Audiences as Decoys 8. Jootsing 9. Three Species of Goulding : Rathering, Piling On, and the Gould Two-Step 10. The “Surely” Operator: A Mental Block 11. Rhetorical Questions 12. What Is a Deepity? Summary

III. TOOLS FOR THINKING ABOUT MEANING OR CONTENT

13. Murder in Trafalgar Square 14. An Older Brother Living in Cleveland 15. “Daddy Is a Doctor” 16. Manifest Image and Scientific Image 17. Folk Psychology 18. The Intentional Stance 19. The Personal/Sub-personal Distinction 20. A Cascade of Homunculi 21. The Sorta Operator 22. Wonder Tissue 23. Trapped in the Robot Control Room

IV. AN INTERLUDE ABOUT COMPUTERS

24. The Seven Secrets of Computer Power Revealed 25. Virtual Machines 26. Algorithms 27. Automating the Elevator Summary

V. MORE TOOLS ABOUT MEANING

28. A Thing about Redheads 29. The Wandering Two-Bitser, Twin Earth, and the Giant Robot 30. Radical Translation and a Quinian Crossword Puzzle 31. Semantic Engines and Syntactic Engines 32. Swampman Meets a Cow-Shark 33. Two Black Boxes Summary

VI. TOOLS FOR THINKING ABOUT EVOLUTION

34. Universal Acid 35. The Library of Mendel: Vast and Vanishing 36. Genes as Words or as Subroutines 37. The Tree of Life 38. Cranes and Skyhooks, Lifting in Design Space 39. Competence without Comprehension 40. Free-Floating Rationales 41. Do Locusts Understand Prime Numbers? 42. How to Explain Stotting 43. Beware of the Prime Mammal 44. When Does Speciation Occur? 45. Widowmakers, Mitochondrial Eve, and Retrospective Coronations 46. Cycles 47. What Does the Frog’s Eye Tell the Frog’s Brain? 48. Leaping through Space in the Library of Babel 49. Who Is the Author of Spamlet ? 50. Noise in the Virtual Hotel 51. Herb, Alice, and Hal, the Baby 52. Memes Summary

VII. TOOLS FOR THINKING ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS

53. Two Counter-images 54. The Zombic Hunch 55. Zombies and Zimboes 56. The Curse of the Cauliflower 57. Vim: How Much Is That in “Real Money”? 58. The Sad Case of Mr. Clapgras 59. The Tuned Deck 60. The Chinese Room 61. The Teleclone Fall from Mars to Earth 62. The Self as the Center of Narrative Gravity 63. Heterophenomenology 64. Mary the Color Scientist: A Boom Crutch Unveiled Summary

VIII. TOOLS FOR THINKING ABOUT FREE WILL

65. A Truly Nefarious Neurosurgeon 66. A Deterministic Toy: Conway’s Game of Life 67. Rock, Paper, and Scissors 68. Two Lotteries 69. Inert Historical Facts 70. A Computer Chess Marathon 71. Ultimate Responsibility 72. Sphexishness 73. The Boys from Brazil: Another Boom Crutch Summary

IX. WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A PHILOSOPHER?

74. A Faustian Bargain 75. Philosophy as Naïve Auto-anthropology 76. Higher-Order Truths of Chmess 77. The 10 Percent That’s Good

X. USE THE TOOLS. TRY HARDER. XI. WHAT GOT LEFT OUT Appendix: Solutions to Register Machine Problems Sources Bibliography Credits Index Copyright ALSO BY Daniel C. Dennett