Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Part I. Bizarreness and dubiety
4. 1 In Praise of Weirdness 1
5. 2 Universal Bizarreness and Universal Dubiety 10
6. Part II. Peculiar Possibilities
7. Introduction 45
8. 3 If Materialism Is True, the United States is Probably Conscious 47
9. 4 1% Skepticism 72
10. 5 Kant Meets Cyberpunk 101
11. Part III. The Size of the Universe
12. Introduction 123
13. 6 Experimental Evidence for the Existence of an External World 125
14. 7 Almost Everything You Do Causes Almost Everything (under Certain Not Wholly Implausible Assumptions); or, Infinite Puppetry 149
15. Part IV. More Perplexities of Consciousness
16. Introduction 171
17. 8 Consciousness, Innocent and Wonderful 173
18. 9 The Loose Friendship of Visual Experience and Reality 189
19. 10 Is There Something It’s Like to Be a Garden Snail? Or, How Sparse or Abundant Is Consciousness in the Universe? 201
20. 11 The Moral Status of Future Artificial Intelligence 229
21. 12 Weirdness and Wonder 253
22. Appendix: Five More Objections to U.S. Consciousness 261
23. Acknowledgments 275
24. Notes 279
25. References 311
26. Index 347
27. A NOTE ON THE TYPE 363