Correct Me If I’m Wrong: Interdisciplinary (and Decidedly Speculative) Essays to Fill Intellectually Idle Moments

This most recent collection of Scott Robinson’s essays gathers together work from a number of previous collections, spanning many disciplines: artificial intelligence, evolutionary psychology, paleontology, and cognitive science, to name a few. Specific topics are equally diverse, including dissipative adaptation, humanism, feminism, macroeconomics, the Library of Babel, and the contents of the number π.

Table of contents: What Is It Like to Be Batman? * This and That and Strange Loops, Too * Star Wars, Star Trek and Macroeconomic Theory * Let That Be Your Last Battlefield * To HAL and Back * Douglas, Daniel, John: An Infernal Chinese Room * Entropy, Interrupted * A Conversation with Hofstadter’s Brain * Energy and Moral Relativism: Picard’s Federation * Moonwatcher Redux * Who Did Fred Flintstone Cook For? * Oxytocin, Open-Loop * What Are Little Girls Made Of? * The Sexual Regulatory Commission * The Devil in the Dark * The Evolution of Trust * The Origins of Morality *
The Survival Value of Authenticity * Club Human! * The Original Humanists * Octants * Cognitive Clusters * Strange Loop Gods * Dunbar, Octants, and Tribes * A Thermodynamic History of Humankind * In the Library of All Possible Books *
In the Community of All Possible Minds * In the Theater of All Possible Readings * In the Hall of All Possible Thoughts *
The Emotional Baggage of Androids * When She Woke at Dawn