Table of Contents

	Preface	p. xiii
	Introduction: What Is an Intuition Pump?	p. 1
	A Dozen General Thinking Tools	p. 17
	Making Mistakes	p. 19
	"By Parody of Reasoning": Using Reductio ad Absurdum	p. 29
	Rapoport's Rules	p. 33
	Sturgeon's Law	p. 36
	Occam's Razor	p. 38
	Occam's Broom	p. 40
	Using Lay Audiences as Decoys	p. 42
	Jootsing	p. 45
	Three Species of Goulding: Rathering, Piling On, and the Gould Two-Step	p. 48
	The "Surely" Operator: A Mental Block	p. 53
	Rhetorical Questions	p. 55
	What Is a Deepity?	p. 56
	Summary	p. 58
	Tools for Thinking About Meaning or Content	p. 59
	Murder in Trafalgar Square	p. 61
	An Older Brother Living in Cleveland	p. 65
	"Daddy Is a Doctor"	p. 68
	Manifest Image and Scientific Image	p. 69
	Folk Psychology	p. 73
	The Intentional Stance	p. 77
	The Personal/Sub-personal Distinction	p. 86
	A Cascade of Homunculi	p. 91
	The Sorta Operator	p. 96
	Wonder Tissue	p. 98
	Trapped in the Robot Control Room	p. 102
	An Interlude About Computers	p. 107
	The Seven Secrets of Computer Power Revealed	p. 109
	Virtual Machines	p. 133
	Algorithms	p. 140
	Automating the Elevator	p. 143
	Summary	p. 148
	More Tools About Meaning	p. 151
	A Thing about Redheads	p. 153
	The Wandering Two-Bitser, Twin Earth, and the Giant Robot	p. 157
	Radical Translation and a Quinian Crossword Puzzle	p. 175
	Semantic Engines and Syntactic Engines	p. 178
	Swampman Meets a Cow-Shark	p. 180
	Two Black Boxes	p. 184
	Summary	p. 197
	Tools for Thinking About Evolution	p. 201
	Universal Acid	p. 203
	The Library of Mendel: Vast and Vanishing	p. 205
	Genes as Words or as Subroutines	p. 214
	The Tree of Life	p. 217
	Cranes and Skyhooks, Lifting in Design Space	p. 218
	Competence without Comprehension	p. 232
	Free-Floating Rationales	p. 234
	Do Locusts Understand Prime Numbers?	p. 236
	How to Explain Stotting	p. 238
	Beware of the Prime Mammal	p. 240
	When Does Speciation Occur?	p. 244
	Widowmakers, Mitochondrial Eve, and Retrospective Coronations	p. 247
	Cycles	p. 252
	What Does the Frog's Eye Tell the Frog's Brain?	p. 256
	Leaping through Space in the Library of Babel	p. 258
	Who Is the Author of Spamlet?	p. 260
	Noise in the Virtual Hotel	p. 267
	Herb, Alice, and Hal, the Baby	p. 271
	Memes	p. 274
	Summary	p. 277
	Tools for Thinking about Consciousness	p. 279
	Two Counter-images	p. 281
	The Zombie Hunch	p. 283
	Zombies and Zimboes	p. 288
	The Curse of the Cauliflower	p. 296
	Vim: How Much Is That in "Real Money"?	p. 299
	The Sad Case of Mr. Clapgras	p. 302
	The Tuned Deck	p. 310
	The Chinese Room	p. 319
	The Teleclone Fall from Mars to Earth	p. 330
	The Self as the Center of Narrative Gravity	p. 333
	Heterophenomenology	p. 341
	Mary the Color Scientist: A Boom Crutch Unveiled	p. 347
	Summary	p. 352
	Tools for Thinking About Free Will	p. 355
	A Truly Nefarious Neurosurgeon	p. 357
	A Deterministic Toy: Conway's Game of Life	p. 359
	Rock, Paper, and Scissors	p. 370
	Two Lotteries	p. 375
	Inert Historical Facts	p. 378
	A Computer Chess Marathon	p. 384
	Ultimate Responsibility	p. 393
	Sphexishness	p. 397
	The Boys from Brazil: Another Boom Crutch	p. 401
	Summary	p. 406
	What is it Like to be a Philosopher?	p. 409
	A Faustian Bargain	p. 411
	Philosophy as Naïve Auto-anthropology	p. 414
	Higher-Order Truths of Chmess	p. 418
	The 10 Percent That's Good	p. 425
	Use the Tools Try Harder	p. 429
	What Got Left Out	p. 431
	Appendix: Solutions to Register Machine Problems	p. 433
	Sources	p. 445
	Bibliography	p. 451
	Credits	p. 461
	Index	p. 463

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