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Learning what we are
I am who I am
The air we breathe
Dumbo's magic feather and the peril of Paulina
Some useful oversimplifications
From physics to design in Conway's life world
Can we get the Deus ex machina?
From slow-motion avoidance to Star Wars
The birth of evitability
Possible worlds
Causation
Austin's putt
A computer chess marathon
Events without causes in a deterministic universe
Will the future be like the past?
The appeal of libertarianism
Where should we put the much-needed gap?
Kane's model of indeterministic decision-making
"If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything"
Beware of prime mammals
How can it be "up to me"?
Early days
The prisoner's dilemma
E pluribus unum?
Digression: the threat of genetic determinism
Degrees of freedom and the search for truth
How cultural symbionts turn primates into persons
The diversity of Darwinian explanations
Nice tools, but you still have to use them
Benselfishness
Being good in order to seem good
Learning to deal with yourself
Our costly merit badges
Drawing the wrong moral
Whenever the spirit moves you
A mind-writer's view
A self of one's own
How we captured reasons and made them our own
Psychic engineering and the arms race of rationality
With a little help from my friends
Autonomy, brainwashing, and education
Holding the line against creeping exculpation
"Thanks, I needed that!"
Are we freer than we want to be?
Human freedom is fragile.
I am who I am
The air we breathe
Dumbo's magic feather and the peril of Paulina
Some useful oversimplifications
From physics to design in Conway's life world
Can we get the Deus ex machina?
From slow-motion avoidance to Star Wars
The birth of evitability
Possible worlds
Causation
Austin's putt
A computer chess marathon
Events without causes in a deterministic universe
Will the future be like the past?
The appeal of libertarianism
Where should we put the much-needed gap?
Kane's model of indeterministic decision-making
"If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything"
Beware of prime mammals
How can it be "up to me"?
Early days
The prisoner's dilemma
E pluribus unum?
Digression: the threat of genetic determinism
Degrees of freedom and the search for truth
How cultural symbionts turn primates into persons
The diversity of Darwinian explanations
Nice tools, but you still have to use them
Benselfishness
Being good in order to seem good
Learning to deal with yourself
Our costly merit badges
Drawing the wrong moral
Whenever the spirit moves you
A mind-writer's view
A self of one's own
How we captured reasons and made them our own
Psychic engineering and the arms race of rationality
With a little help from my friends
Autonomy, brainwashing, and education
Holding the line against creeping exculpation
"Thanks, I needed that!"
Are we freer than we want to be?
Human freedom is fragile.