Table of Contents
Preface 1
Introduction: Waning of Homo Grandiose 5
Move from High to Low Rent District… Big Come Down… Code Deciphered… Mind Under the Microscope… A Man and Three Women: Blurring the Boundaries… No More Brightest Kid on the Block… AI and Robotics… What's Left?… Where We Are Headed.
Chapter 1 Rule Breakers and Blame 22
Scapegoating… Blame in Religion and Art… Blaming Hysterias… Blame versus Responsibility… Strict Liability.
Chapter 2 Getting Blame Right 31
"Special Circumstances"… Glaring Disparities… Capital Punishment: Just or Capricious?… Innocents… The Supremes and Death… Adversarial "Justice"… Sad State of Blame Defense… Strange Kind of Truth… Deal Making… Beyond Reasonable Doubt… A Different Perspective.
Chapter 3 Two Lives 52
Wired… The Perfect Murder… Pickaxed to Death… Missing Glasses… "Well, Hell Yes"… Darrozo's Defense… Changed Life… Another Changed Life… Count Down… The Rest of the Story… After Thoughts.
Chapter 4 The Devil Made Me Do It and Other Defenses 71
Mad or Bad… Reining It In… Shell Game… The Quagmire of Degrees of Guilt… Excuses vs. Explanations… When Blame Is Set Aside.
Chapter 5 The Scourge of Massive Incarceration 89
Massive Hell Holes… Inner Workings… Designed Centers of Violence… One Size Fits All… After Prison Purgatory… Summary Judgment.
Chapter 6 Intricate Dance: Genes and Experience (Environment) 100
Genes… Power of Single Genes… Poly genetic… Identical Twins as Window into Genes… Environment (Experience)… The Body As Environment… Microbiome… Experiential Stressors… Situation and Timing… Memes… Algorithms… Luck.
Chapter 7 The Astonishing Illusion 121
Intimations of Trouble in Self Land… Game Changer… The Deceptive Brain… The Astonishing Illusion… How It Happens… One of Many: The Commonness of Human Illusions… Enter the Interpreter/Storyteller… Fashioning the Story of Self… Demise of the Self as Action Figure… Emergent World of Mind… Origin and Future of Mind.
Chapter 8 Deep Story Telling and the Self 143
Drilling Down on the Self… The Psychology of Self… Choice Redux… Neo-existentialism?… The Back Story: Strictly Determined… Self as Story Character… Why the Illusion?… When the Self Goes Away and Other Disruptions… Mind as Virtual Reality… VR.
Chapter 9 Relocating Evil 163
We Know It When We See It… Disturbing Implications… Evil Endures But in a Different Place.
Chapter 10 Blameless Justice 170
Once Again: Self Reconsidered… Myth of Punishment as Deterrence… Time for Radical Change… How Other Countries Handle Criminals… Criminal Justice in a New Key… Judges and Juries… Reforming Rule Breakers… Violent Rule Breakers and Blameless Justice… Violent Forever… Resistance to Change… End of the Blame Game.
Chapter 11 Conclusion 191
Acknowledgements 198
Author Biography 199
References 201
