Your Summer Reading, Sorted!
I've just finished a new version of my book in draft, The Weirdness of the World. This one includes a new chapter co-written with Jacob Barandes, on some of the bizarre consequence of spatiotemporal infinitude.
Draft available here.
I'm looking for comments and suggestions. Here's your chance to improve my book before it goes into print! Isn't that better than emailing me your insightful idea after it's too late for me to change anything?
Table of Contents
1. In Praise of Weirdness
Part One: Bizarreness and Dubiety
2. If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious
• Chapter Two Appendix: Six Objections
3. Universal Bizarreness and Universal Dubiety
4. 1% Skepticism
5. Kant Meets Cyberpunk
Part Two: The Size of the Universe
6. Experimental Evidence for the Existence of an External World
7. Almost Everything You Do Causes Almost Everything (Under Certain Not Wholly Implausible Assumptions); or Infinite Puppetry
Part Three: More Perplexities of Consciousness
8. An Innocent and Wonderful Definition of Consciousness
9. The Loose Friendship of Visual Experience and Reality
10. Is There Something It’s Like to Be a Garden Snail? Or: How Sparse or Abundant Is Consciousness in the Universe?
11. The Moral Status of Future Artificial Intelligence: Doubts and a Dilemma
12. Weirdness and Wonder