Provenance of the essays ...................................... vii
Introduction .................................................... 1
1 The consistency of arithmetic ................................ 8
2 Can a Turing machine know that the Gödel sentence is
true? ....................................................... 28
3 On "seeing" the truth of the Gödel sentence ................. 36
4 How to make a decision ...................................... 41
5 Indeterminist free will ..................................... 52
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6 The determinists have run out of luck—for a good reason ..... 61
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7 Action based on deliberation and decision ................... 65
8 Controlled indeterministic processes in action theory ....... 76
9 The causative power of conscious choice ..................... 86
10 The open future and its exploitation by rational agents ..... 91
11 Does the brain lead the mind? .............................. 102
12 3D/4D equivalence, the twins paradox, and absolute time .... 106
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13 Philosophical consequences of the twins paradox ............ 116
14 The 3D/4D controversy: A storm in a teacup ................. 130
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15 Laws of nature and branching spacetime ..................... 139
16 Objective time flow ........................................ 154
17 Time flow .................................................. 178
18 QM and STR: The combining of quantum mechanics and
relativity theory .......................................... 186
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