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| Acknowledgments |
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The Simple and the Complex |
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Realities, Rules and Surprises |
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In the & ginning Is the Wor(l)d |
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1 | (10) |
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11 | (4) |
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Patterns, Puzzles and Paradoxes |
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15 | (10) |
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25 | (18) |
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43 | (42) |
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Intuition: Small, gradual changes in causes give rise to small, gradual changes in effects |
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Continuity and Common Sense |
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43 | (5) |
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The Fall of the Wall and the Collapse of a Beam |
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48 | (9) |
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57 | (8) |
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65 | (15) |
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The Theater of the Absurd |
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80 | (5) |
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85 | (30) |
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Intuition: Deterministic rules of behavior give rise to completely predictable events |
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85 | (3) |
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88 | (10) |
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98 | (4) |
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102 | (11) |
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113 | (2) |
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115 | (56) |
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Intuition: All real world truths are the logical outcome of following a set of rules |
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115 | (5) |
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120 | (5) |
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Magic Machines and Busy Beavers |
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125 | (13) |
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Truth Is Stranger Than Proof |
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138 | (5) |
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143 | (7) |
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Real Brains, Artificial Minds |
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150 | (16) |
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Minds, Machines and Evolution |
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166 | (5) |
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171 | (41) |
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Intuition: Complicated systems caw always be understood by breaking them down Into simpler parts |
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171 | (14) |
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185 | (13) |
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198 | (7) |
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Some Surprising Connections |
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205 | (7) |
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212 | (48) |
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Intuition: Surprising behavior results only from complicated, bard-to-understand interactions among a system's component parts |
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213 | (8) |
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221 | (8) |
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The Most Complicated Thing in the World |
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229 | (13) |
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From Bach to Rock and Bach Again |
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242 | (7) |
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Climbing the Devil's Staircase |
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249 | (11) |
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260 | (19) |
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On the Creation of a Science of Surprise |
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260 | (9) |
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269 | (5) |
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274 | (5) |
| To Dig Deeper |
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279 | (30) |
| Index |
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