I Am a Strange Loop

INDEX

A

abbreviations piled on abbreviations

aboutness, double, of Gödel’s formula

absorbing someone else’s essence

“abstraction ceiling” in author’s mind

abstractions: as causes; centrality of: formidable tower of, in human minds

abstractly swirling patterns

accidents in mathematics: absence of; possibility of

accretion: of self-model; of soul

Ackermann’s function

active symbols, see symbols

affinity of souls, see chemistry (interpersonal)

afterglow of a soul

Aimable, the village baker

“alacrity, celerity, assiduity”, etc.

Alfbert, the; dream of

Alf and Bertie’s Posh Shop

algorithmic information theory

Ali, Muhammad

Alienware machine, emulated by Macintosh

Alighieri, Dante

alignment: of PM theorems and code numbers; of truths and PM theorems; of two souls in married couple dedicated to common goals

allegoric license

“Alle Menschen Müssen Sterben” (Bach)

Alzheimer’s disease

ambiguity of operations inside computers

américain, pronunciation of the word in movie

amino acids

amplification of input in audio feedback; saturation of

analogies: central role of, in this book; as fabric of human thought; having force proportional to precision and visibility; index entries for; jumping out automatically; made by bees; as mediating reference; research on; retrieved automatically by new events; rivalry between two similar ones; seen as simmball patterns in the careenium; self-referential; as source of meaning; tossed off effortlessly; trivial-seeming examples; by W. V. O. Quine

analogies, serious examples of: between Alfbert and Whitehead/Russell; between audio and video feedback; between Aurélie and Pomponnette; between the author’s mind and others’ minds; between the author’s view of “I” and quantum mechanics; between beer cans and neurons; between brain and oil refinery; between brains and countries; between brains and PM as substrates for strange loops; between brain structures and genes or atoms; between butterfly swarms and souls; between careenium and brain; between careenium and pinball machine; between cars and dogs; between Chantal looking at movie and Russell looking at Gödel’s formula; between children with muddy boots; between cookies on same plate; between couples; between crystal and orchard; between death and eclipse; between decision-making and political elections; between dedicated machines and music boxes; between dog looking at pixels and Russell looking at Gödel’s formula; between domino chainium and traffic jam; between donning piece of clothing and identifying with someone else; between Doug and Carol; between edibility and provability; between electron clouds and human souls; between entwined video loops and entwined souls; between epiphenomena in brain and in mineral; between formula containing own Gödel number and elephant in matchbox; between gems in Caspian Sea and powers in Fibonacci sequence; between genes and novels; between Gödel’s construction and black-belt judo maneuver; between Gödel number k and Morton Salt can; between Gödel’s strange loop and video feedback; between grapplings with death and beautiful sailboat; between growing soul and accreting planetoid; between Guru and Göru; between heart and brain; between heart-shaped bread and heart on collar; between human soul and train; between “I” and dollar bill; between “I” and either “i” or “Twe”; between “I” and “Epi”; between “I” and video-feedback galaxy; between Imp and KG; between K. Gödel’s article on Principia Mathematica and G. Külot’s review of Prince Hyppia: Math Dramatica; between Klüdgerot and Kurt Gödel; between Leafpilishness and Consciousness; between learning to be someone else and learning a foreign language; between leg-tingles and ants (and ginger ale); between life and hedge maze; between listener not relating to Bartók and magnetic field not penetrating superconductor; between mosquito and flush toilet; between mosquito and heat-seeking missile; between mosquito and red spot; between naïve careenium and young Doug; between Newtonian physics and naïve view of self; between oneself and others; between pairsons and persons; between Parfit and Einstein; between picket lines in play and outside theater; between pieces of cake; between pixel patterns and events; between PM and sinking boat; between prim numbers and prime numbers; between Principia Mathematica and invaded fortress; between quoted phrases and Gödel numbers; between recursion and plant growth; between recursive sequences of numbers and PM theorems; between robot vehicle and an ant; between Rosalyn Wadhead and Russell and Whitehead; between salt box and picture of salt box; between salt-box picture and Gödel’s self-referential trick; between saucy numbers and unpennable lines in plays; between self-reference and self-replication; between self-symbol and video feedback; between Sluggo dreaming of himself and self-quoting sentence; between “soap digest rack” spelled out in Sanskrit and Gödel’s formula spelled out in PM notation; between souledness and tallness; between Sperry’s and Gödel’s balancing acts; between strange loops and selves; between symbols in brain and books in library; between uninteresting number and Berry’s number; between universal machines and chameleonic integers; between universal machines and people; between unpennable lines and unprovable strings; between unscalability of KJ and unprovability of KG; between video feedback and iteration in complex plane; between windmill and thoughtmill; between Xerxes’ breath and Yolanda’s breath; between Y. Ted Enrustle and Whitehead and Russell

Andromeda galaxy

animacy, found in inanimate substrate

animals: killing of; self-awareness of

another soul, living inside oneself

ant: crossing property lines; rescued; Schweitzer’s personal

Antarctica, reality of

Anterselva di Mezzo

anthropomorphic language, temptation of

ants’ disrespect for property lines

“ants in my leg”

“Anything you can docan do meta”

arbitrarily extensible repertoires of categoriessee also concepts, symbols

arbitrarily subtle properties of whole numbers; see also universality

arbitrary mapping between stimuli and sensations

Archimedes

arithmetization of PM formulas

Arnheim, Rudi and Mary

Around the World in Eighty Days

arrangement as cause

artificial “I”, still far off

artificial intelligence; see also robots

“ashes to ashes, dust to dust”

atomes crochus, avoir des (“having hooked atoms”), as French for interpersonal chemistry

atoms as abstract entities

audio feedback; pitch of; vanilla loop in

Aurélie, straying wife

Aus meiner Kindheit und Jugendzeit (Schweitzer)

Austen, Jane

Austranius

authority, arguments by

Avogadro’s number

awareness: of dance of symbols; levels of, compared; see also consciousness, perception

axioms: analogous to seeds in recursion; as top lines of PM proofs

B

b (Berry’s number)

Babbage, Charles

baby: impoverished perceptual system of; lack of self at birth or conception

Bach, Johann Sebastian; cantata by; organ music by; tricentennial birthday party for

“bachelor”, elusiveness of concept

bad-breath analogy

bandwidth of communication as determinant of degree of interpenetration

banishment of toy guns from household

barber paradox

barberry jelly

“bare” strange loop of selfhood

barking, reverberant

Bartók, Béla; violin concerto # 2

baseball and football sensations swapped

Baskerville, John

basketball: skill in, as part of self-symbol; unpredictability of, when tossed

Beardsley, Dick

beauty, as bedrock cause for humans

“because” coinciding with “although”

Bechet, Sidney

beer cans and ping-pong balls as substrate for thinking

bees, swarm of, opposing caged-bird metaphor

Beethoven, Ludwig van

behaviors, attempted and evaluated

being: in two places at the same time; at two times in the same place

being someone else: economy-class version; with a “foreign accent”

beings: defined as systems having representational universality; modeling other beings

belief: as experienced by a zombie; shared by two people

believability of The True View

Berkeley, University of California at

Bernstein, Jeremy

Berry, G. G.

Berry’s paradox: as breeding ground for Gödel’s theorem; as formalized by Chaitin; as strange-loop candidate

Bierce, Ambrose

“Bigger they are, harder they fall”

bile, single-edged or double-edged

biologists paying attention to informational rather than physical level of genes

birds saved by young Schweitzer

black-and-white smudges: as early teleportation technology; as soul-shards

black-belt maneuver by Gödel

“black holes” in video feedback

bleu blanc rouge (colors of the French flag)

blocked infinite regress

blood, nonexperienced quale of

“blooming, buzzing confusion” (Wm. James)

Bloomington, Indiana

blue humpback

blueprint used in self-replicating machine

blurriness of everyday concepts

boat with endless succession of leaks

bodies vs. souls

body parts initiate self-representation

Bohr atom, as stepping stone en route to quantum mechanics

Bohr, Niels

boiling water, reliability of

Bonaparte, see Napoleon

bon mots: by Carol Hofstadter; by David Moser

“Book of nature written in mathematics” (Galileo)

Boole, George

boot-removal analogy

boundaries between souls, blurriness of

boundaries, macroscopic, as irrelevant to particles

box with flaps making loop

Brabner, George

brain activity: hiddenness of substrate of; modeled computationally; need for high-level view of; obviousness of high-level view of

brain-in-vat scenario

brain research, nature of

brain-scanning gadgets

brain structures

brains: compared to hearts; complexity of, as relevant to consciousness; controlling bodies directly vs. indirectly; eerieness of; evolution of; as fusion of two half-brains; as inanimate; inhabited by more than one “I”; interacting via ideas; main; as multi-level systems; not responsible for color qualia; perceiving multiple environments simultaneously; receiving sensory input directly or indirectly; resembling inert sponges; unlikely substrate for interiority

Braitenberg, Valentino

bread becoming a gun

Brown, Charlie

Brownian motion

Brünn, Austria (birthplace of Kurt Gödel)

buck stopping at “I”

Bugeaud, Yann

bunnies as edible beings

“burstwise advance in evolution” (Sperry)

Bushmiller, Ernie

butterflies: not respecting precinct boundaries; in orchard, as metaphor for human soul

Buzzaround Betty

C

caged-bird metaphor; as analogous to Newtonian physics; hints at wrongness of; as ingrained habit; at level of countries and cultures; metaphors opposed to; normally close to correct; as reinforced by language; temptingness of

Cagey’s doubly-hearable line

cake whose pieces all taste bad, as inferrred by analogy

candles

cantata aria

Cantor, Georg

capital punishment

Capitalized Essences; canceled

careenium; growing up; self-image of; two views of; unsatisfactory to skeptics

Carnap, Rudolf

Carol-and-Doug: as higher-level entity; joint mind of; shared dreads and dreams of

Carolness, survival of

Carol-symbol in Doug’s brain: being vs. representing a person; triggerability of

cars: as high-level objects; pushed around by desires

Cartesian Eggo

Cartesian Ego; as commonsensical view; fading of

Cartesian Ergo

Cartier-Bresson, Henri

Caspian Gemstones, allegory of

casual façade as Searlian ploy

Catcher in the Rye, The (Salinger)

categories and symbols; see also repertoires

categorization mechanisms: converting complexity into simplicity; as determining size of self; efficiency of

Caulfield, Holden

causality: bottoming out in “I”; buck of, stopping at “I”; of dogmas in triggering wars; and insight; schism between two types of; stochasticity of in everyday life; tradeoffs in; upside-down; see also downward causality

causal potency: of ideas in brain; of meanings of PM strings; of patterns

“causal powers of the brain”, semantic

cell phones as universal machines

Center for Research into Consciousness and Cognetics

Central Consciousness Bank

central loop of cognition

cerulean sardine

chain of command in brain

chainium (dominos), causality in

Chaitin, Greg

Chalmers, David; zombie twin of

chameleonic nature: of integers; of universal machines

Chantal Duplessix, seeing pixel-patterns as events; missing second level of Aimable’s remarks

chaos, potential, in number theory

Chaplin twins, (Freda and Greta)

character structure of an individual

Chávez, César

chemistry: bypassed in explanation of heredity and reproduction; of carbon as supposed key to consciousness; reduced to physics; virtual, inside computers

“chemistry” (interpersonal); enabling people to live inside each other; as function of musical taste alignment; as highly real causal agent; as “hooked atoms”; lack of, between people

“chicken” (meat) vs. chickens

chickens as edible creatures

children: as catalysts to soul merger of parents; as having fewer hunekers than adults; self-awareness of

chimpanzees

chinchillas

Chinese people, as spread-out entity

Chinese Room

chirpy notes and deep notes interchanged

Chopin, Frédéric; étude Op. 25 no. 4 in A minor; étude Op. 25 no. 11 in A minor; nostalgia of; pieces by, as soul-shards of; survival of

chord–angle theorem

Christiansen, Winfield

church bells

Church’s theorem

cinnamon-roll aroma in airport corridor

circular reasoning, validity of, in video feedback

circumventing bans by exploiting flexible substrates

clarity as central goal

Class A vs. Class B prime numbers

classical view of human identity, see Cartesian Ego, caged-bird metaphor

clouds: interpreted in sophisticated and simple-minded ways; unconsciousness of

club: of all prime numbers; of all wff numbers

coarse-grained copies of a soul

coarse-grainedness: of others’ souls inside us; of perception; in video feedback

codons in DNA

coffee: tracked in real time by symbols in brain; turned into theorems by mathematicians

“Cogito ergo sum”

cognition, central loop of

Cohn, John H. E.

coincidences in mathematics

coin-flipping, as robust statistical phenomenon

collages, curious

collective phenomena, as valid causes

colloidal particles

color feelings as subjective inventions

colors triggering knurking or glebbing

columns in visual cortex

combustion engines

comet approaching Jupiter

communication ease between people, factors influencing

communication rate between brains: as determining number of souls present; hypothetically tweaked in thought experiments

communication rate between hemispheres as determining degree of unity of brain

communication, techniques for

compassion; etymology of the word

completeness of PM, hope for

complexity threshold for universality

comprehensibility as crucial for survival

compression of KG to humanly graspable size

computational universality

“computer” as merely a historic term

computer searches vs. proofs

computers: as computing devices; invisibility of computation within; as non-computing devices; programming of; Stanford University’s only

concepts: activation of; as brain structures; embodied in simmballs; handed to people on silver platter; nestedness of

Condition humaine, La (Malraux)

cone: of consciousness; of souledness

conscience: close link of concept and word to consciousness; of dogs, lions, and mosquitoes

consciousness: as an add-on feature to a brain; allegedly missing from my tale; another person’s, inside one’s own head; apparent but unreal; as automatic emergent consequence of brain design; as close relative of conscience; cone representing levels of; disintegrating; distributedness of; dollops of; equated with thinking; friendships, as criterial for; as illusion; locus, absence of; measured by musical taste; as mirage; not merely acting and claiming to be, but being; organic chemistry as source of; physicality of; as quantum phenomenon; “right stuff ” as source of; shades of gray in; and strange loops; as thinking; threshold for; vs. reflexes; the very stuff of

Consciousness, Capitalized Essence of

Consciousness Explained (Dennett)

consistency of PM: certainty of; hope for

consistency of rock base of KJ

content: fed into “empty” feedback loop

contingent facts in geology but not math

continua of consciousness and souledness

control of your body by my brain

cookies that all taste good, by analogy

copies of another person’s memories, fidelity of

copycats, borrowing from others

core me-ness

corona during soul eclipse; soular

corridors; helical; truncated vs. endless

Cosby, Bill

counterfactuals: in formation of human self; by Stanley

counting, ill-definedness of

country vs. people

cows: as edible beings; experience of purpleness of; sacred

creativity vs. rigid rules

credit card, understanding of

crimes against animals

critical mass of soul-shards needed to qualify as some kind of survival

crystal lattice of atoms, as metaphor

C-3PO (robot)

cuteness

cyclic refilling of leaky flush toilet

cynicism, potential, on reader’s part

D

Dahl, Roald

Dalí, Salvador

dance of simmballs as thought

dance of symbols: as constituting another’s soul; as constituting consciousness; perceived by yet other symbols; as thought

darts thrown at text, causing rewriting

David and Lisa

Davies, Dennis

Dawkins, Richard

dear eater

death of Carol Hofstadter

death’s sting, reduced

Debussy, Claude

decision procedures

decisions as votes

deconstructing the “I” à la Zen

dedicated: machines; music boxes

Deep Blue (chess-playing computer)

deepest beliefs of humans involve macro-level concepts

De Morgan, Augustus

Dennett, Daniel C.; email exchange between author and; on his friend’s “desperate lark”; putting motto into friend’s mouth; teleportation fantasy by; “Where Am I?” story by; on zombies

Dennis the Menace, on leg that’s asleep

Descartes, René

descriptions of integers: long and short; vague

desires: as causal agents; in conflict with each other; imputed to flush toilet; imputed to soccer ball; imputed to sunflowers and vines; on meta-level; as prime movers; thwarted by obstacles; unanalyzability of

Desperate Lark

destructive-teleportation scenarios

detailed knowledge as blocking understanding

dialogues

diamond found in the Caspian sea

dichotomy: between the animate and the inanimate; between the physical and the nonphysical

die, unpredictability of tosses of

Dirac, P. A. M.

direct feeding: of brain solely by hard-wired perceptual system; of screen A solely by camera A

direct vs. indirect: motor control, shades of gray in; perception, shades of gray in

disease, microscopic causes of

dislodging: “I”-myth; “sun moves” myth

distance function in personality space

distorted image of self, in self-symbol

distributedness of human souls; butterfly metaphor for; easy to forget

dividuals, in Twinwirld

divine perversity

DNA

“dog”, category of

dog breeds, as proper level of discourse for dog breeders

doggie cam at kennel

dogmas, religious, as causing wars

dogs: compassion of; episodic memories of; as food; friends of; in heat; limited symbol repertoires of; magnanimity of; non-universality of; not entering into other dogs’ minds; as people; reverberant barking of; self-awareness of; size of strange loops in; as smaller-souled than humans; straining at the leash; as “who”, not “which”

dollops of Consciousness; fractional

domino chainium

Domino, Fats

domino theory of Cold War era

“doorways” in corridor

dots on a line, human souls likened to

doubts about “I”-ness

downloading virtual machines

downward causality; in brains; in careenium; in chainium; in combustion engines; disintegration of; in everyday life; in mathematics; in traffic jam

downwards reasoning: in mathematics; in mountaineering

dramaturgical conventions for pennable lines

Drawing Hands (Escher), as strange-loop candidate; with one hand erasing

drawn vs. drawer, as upwards level-shift

dreads and dreams of sunflowers

dressing styles, tested out

droning, as telltale zombie behavior

Droste’s hot chocolate

du (second-person singular pronoun) addressed to married couple

dualism: espoused by some neuroscientists; ever so gently parodied; giving up on; grazed by Sperry; implied by inverted spectrum; murkiness of; mystical terms of; pulls and pitfalls of; rejected by SL # 642; riddles evoked by

E

Eakins, Thomas, portrait of

“easy” and “hard” meanings of pixel patterns

eavesdropping, visual

eclipse of soul

ecstasy, unfelt

Edson, Russell

efficiency and survival

effortless decoding of isomorphism

egalitarian tendencies

ego, id, and superego

8, lonely cube in Fibonacci sequence

Einstein, Albert

élan mental; sliding scale

élan vital

election as metaphor for decision-making

electromagnetic spectrum, as giving rise to visual sensations

electromagnetism: as fundamental force; as having unquestionably precise properties

electron spin, as unquestionably precise fact

electrons in non-conductors and in metals

elephant: squeezing into matchbox; squeezing DNA of, into matchbox

email exchange with Dan Dennett; act of compressing

embassies of a country, opposing caged-bird metaphor

emergent forces as patterns

emergent phenomena: in brain; in complex plane; in everyday world, coming from quantum-mechanical substrate; in minerals; resulting from Principia Mathematica pointing at itself; in video feedback

Eminem

emotional forces, as coloring one’s opinions

empathy as by-product of representational universality

empirical evidence vs. proofs

emptiness

emulation by one machine of another

English language, imprecision of

English translation of Bach aria words

Enrustle, Y. Ted

entelechy

entrenchedness of “I”: in main brain; in other brains

entwinement: of feedback loops; of human souls

envelopes in box; not perceivable individually

Epi (apparent marble in envelope box); parameters determining reality of; poem about; possible explanatory power of; seeming reality of

Epimenides

epiphenomena: in brain; in careenium; in envelope box; in minerals; in video feedback

episodes as concepts

episodic memory: central role of, in “I”-ness; containing precedents for new situations; of dogs; of human beings

episodic projectory

episodic subjunctory

Erdös, Paul

Ernst, Tom

errors, study of

Escher, Maurits Cornelis

essence: extraction of, in brain; pinpointing of, as the goal of thought

essential incompleteness

essentially self-referential quality required to make an “I”

esthetic pressures as affecting content

études (Chopin)

etymologies of words

Euclid’s Elements

Euclid’s proof of infinitude of primes

Eugene Onegin (Pushkin)

Euler, Leonhard

Everest, Mount

everyday concepts defining human reality; blurriness of

evolution: of brain complexity; of careenium; and efficiency; of hearts; producing meanings in brains as accidental by-product; producing universality in brains as accidental by-product; throwing consciousness in as a bonus feature

existence: blurriness of, of “I”

experiences, as co-present with “I”-ness; as determining “I”, not vice versa; “pure”, as unrelated to physics

experiencers vs. non-experiencers

explanations, proper level of

Exploratorium Museum

exponential explosions

extensible category system of humans; and representational universality; yielding consciousness

extra bonus feature of consciousness

extra-physical nature of consciousness

F

F numbers; see also Fibonacci

fading afterglow of a soul

failures, perception of one’s own

faith in one’s own thought processes

falafel, savored by two brains

Falen, James

falsity in mathematics, assumed equivalent to lacking proof

Fauconnier, Gilles

Fauré, Gabriel

fear: of feedback loops; of self-reference; of self-representation in art

feedback loops; and central goals of living creatures; content-free; and exponential growth; as germ of consciousness; in growth of human self-symbol; as instinctive taboo; irrelevant to hereness, for SL #642; level-crossing; see also strange loops

feeding a formula its own Gödel number

feeling one is elsewhere

feeling posited to be independent of physics

feeling vs. nonfeeling machines

feelium, as stuff of experience and sensation

Feigen, George

Femme du boulanger, La (Pagnol), indirect meanings carried by analogy in

Fermat, Pierre de

Fermat’s Last Theorem, proof of

fetus having no soul

Fibonacci (Leonardo di Pisa)

Fibonacci numbers; perfect mutual avoidance with powers

fidelity of copy of another’s interiority

Fields, W. C.

fine-grained vs. coarse-grained loops

first-person vs. third-person view of “I”; see also The Hard Problem

first-person writing style

fish, respect for life of

flap loop; photo of

flexibility, maximal, of machines

flip side of Mathematician’s Credo

flipping-around of perceptual system

flirting with infinity

float-ball in flush toilet

fluid pointers

flush-toilet fill mechanism

food: for people in virtual environments; for virtual creatures

fooled by the realism of Drawing Hands

football: sensation swapped with baseball sensation; on television

forces: in the brain; in physics; vs. desires

forest vs. trees

form–content interplay

formula fragment in PM

43 and 49, as uninteresting integers

foundations of mathematics, quest for stable

fractalic gestalts of video feedback

frames as brain structures

Frank, Anne

Franklin, Benjamin

free will: of machine; as opposed to will; overridden by itself

Free Willie

Frege, Gottlob

French people having flipped color qualia

French translation: of Bach aria words; of “my leg is asleep”

Freud, Sigmund

friends: constituting threshold for consciousness; giving rise to “I”; personal identity of; self-inventorying sentences as; sharing of joys and pains of

Frucht, William

frustration of one’s will

funerals, purpose of

funneling of complex input into few symbols

fusion, psychic: of Chaplin twins; of halves in Twinwirld; of husband and wife; of souls, as inevitable consequence of long-term intimate sharing

G

g (Gödel number of Gödel’s formula); bypassing of; code number of unpennable line in play

“g is not prim”; see also KG

galaxies: colliding in cyberspace; colliding in space; emerging from video feedback

Galileo Galilei

Galois, Évariste, as radical

Gandhi, (Mahatma) Mohandas

gargantuan integers

gases, behavior of

gemstones found in the Caspian Sea

generosity, as bedrock cause for humans

genes: as abstract entities; human, as source of potential strange loop; as patterns copied in different organisms; as physical entities; as remote from real life

genetic code

Gershwin, George

Giant Electronic Brain

gleb/knurk fence; see also knurking

Glosspan, Aunt (in “Pig”)

Glover, Henry

glue: on dollops of Consciousness; on envelopes as source of Epi

gluons

gluttony vs. weight-watching

goal-lacking and goal-possessing entities, perceived schism between

goal-orientedness of systems, blurriness of

goals of living creatures

goals, shared

God: elusiveness of mathematical truth and; not a player of dice; reality of

Göd

Gödel, Escher, Bach: central message of; dialogues in; linking author with Bach; typesetting of; video feedback photos in; writing of

Gödel, Kurt; arithmetizes PM; believer in PM ’s consistency; birthyear of; as black belt; bypasses indexicality; code for PM symbols and formulas; concocts self-referential statement in PM; discovery of strange loop by; “God” in name of; growing up in Brünn; 1931 article of; as re-analyzer of what meaning is; respect for power of PM; sees analogy between Fibonacci numbers and PM theorems; sees causal potency of meaning of strings; sees representational richness of whole numbers; umlaut in name of; as young mathematician

Gödel numbering; freedom in; revealing secondary meaning of Imp

Gödel rays

Gödelian formulas, infinitude of

Gödelian swirl; ease of transportability; isomorphism of any two, at coarse-grained level; pointers in; see also strange loop

Gödel’s formula KG: condensability of; described through abbreviations; downward causality and; hiddenness of higher-level view of; high-level and low-level meanings of; higher-level view fantasized as being obvious; inconceivable length of; lack of indexicals in; as repugnant to Bertrand Russell; translated with the indexical pronoun “I”; truth of; unprovability of

Gödel’s formula KH, for Super-PM

Gödel’s incompleteness theorem: as proven by Chaitin; as proven by Gödel

Gödel’s Proof (Nagel and Newman)

Gödel’s strange loop: as inevitable as video feedback; as prototype for “I”-ness

Gödel–Turing threshold for universality

“God’s-eye point of view”

Goldbach Conjecture; decided by Göru

Golden Rule

Goldsmith, John

good and bad, sense of, in growing self

Göru: falling short of hopes; machine for solving all mathematical problems; machine for telling prims from non-prims; non-realizability of

Gott ist unsre Zu versicht (Bach); counterfactual extension of

Gould, Glenn

gradations of consciousness

Graham’s constant

graininess: in representations of others; in video loops

grandmother cells

grand-music neuron

grass and souls

grasshopper rescued

gravitation

grazing of paradox

Greater Metropolitan You

“great soul” as hidden meaning of “magnanimous” and of “Mahatma”

green button, fear of pushing

Greg and Karen, Twinwirld couple

Greg’l and Greg’r

griffins, uncertain reality of

“grocery store checkout stand”: causality attached to the concept of; as nested concept; vignette involving

grocery stores’ meat displays

growth rules, recursive, defining sequences of numbers

growth rules, typographical, for strings in PM

guinea pigs sacrificed for science

gulf between truth and provability

Gunkel, Pat

guns fashioned from sandwiches

Guru, machine that tells primes from non-primes

Gutman, Hattie

Gutman, Kellie

H

h (Gödel number of Gödel’s formula KH)

“h is not a super-prim number”

H1 (robot vehicle)

halflings in Twinwirld

hallucination hallucinated by hallucination

halo: counterfactual, around personal identity; of each soul; of national souls

halves, left and right, in Twinwirld

hammerhead shark, location of

hands-in-water experiment

hangnails, reality of one’s own

hardness and roundness of Epi

Hard Problem, The; see also first-person

hardware vs. patterns

“hard-wiring”: of hemispheric links; hypothetically tweaked; of motor control as source of identity; of perceptual hardware as source of identity

Hastorf, Albert H.

“he”, as hyped pronoun for robot vehicle

heart: architecture of; evolution of; summarizable as “a pump”

Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The (McCullers)

heart-shaped bread and heart on collar, analogy between

heat-seeking missile

“heavenly body”, vagueness of the term

hedge maze of life

Heisenberg, Werner

heliocentrism vs. geocentrism

hemisphere, cerebral, as site of a half-self

hemoglobin molecules, number of in body

Henkin, Leon

heredity studied at abstract before physical level

“hereness”, mystery of, for SL #642; as posed by Derek Parfit and Daniel Dennett

Herman, Robert

herrings: blue; red; see also humpback

hierarchy: of forces in brain; of living creatures; of recursive functions defined by Gödel; of souledness

higher-level logic, appeal of, to brains

higher-level meaning: downward causality and;of Gödel’s formula; hiddenness of, for KG; of Imp; obviousness of, for brains; of PM strings, as read by Klüdgerot; of Prince Hyppia’s outburst

higher-level soul, created in marriage

high-level view: of brain activity; of careenium; of dog genetics; of domino chainium; eclipsing low-level view; of Gödel’s formula; indispensability of; of life in general; of pixel patterns on TV screen; of traffic jam; of video feedback

Hilbert, David

Hilbert program

“hive spirit”

Hofstadter, Carol Ann Brush: being Doug; bon mots by; dubious transportability of deepest pointers inside; dying of brain tumor; eye-to-eye with Doug re children; gaze similar to Doug’s; as Indian-dinner giver; interiority of, survival of; love for Prokofiev first violin concerto; memorial service for; memories belonging to, copied inside Doug; personal losses of, as felt by Doug; physical suffering of, shared by Doug; as sharable pattern; soul-shards, survival of, in Doug; thinking with Doug’s brain; thought of in present tense after death; videotapes, as disorienting; washing dishes and replaying dinner party with Doug

Hofstadter, Daniel; as catalyst to soul merger of parents; internalizing friends’ mannerisms; spotting reverberant parking lot from air; wearing nose-mounted TV camera

Hofstadter, Douglas: arranging memorial service; assuming Gödel is a male; baffled by Bartók; befriending Nagel family; being on both Mars and Venus; being Carol; belief in logic as key to human mind; column in Scientific American; compiling own index; confusing own memories with those of a friend; consciousness cone of; contradictions in head; copycatting many people; counterfactual versions of; deprived of geometry; different person as time passes; disavowing “meta” motto; driven by form; eating chicken and fish; enraptured by Elvis; exploring number theory; eye-to-eye with Carol re children; fainting in physiology lab; fascination with Gödel; fascination with minds and brains; fascination with self-reference; fear of videotapes of Carol; feeling Carol’s losses; feeling physical suffering of wife; feeling self behind Carol’s eyes; first hearing Chopin; gaze similar to that of Carol; grappling with Carol’s death; growing by accretion; hesitant to close video loop; hitting abstraction ceiling; horsies-and-doggies style; hypothetically buckling under intense pressures of grief; imagining soul as wisp; intoxicated with Bach fugues; intrigued by three threes; jilted; linking own brain with zombie’s; looking at daughter Monica “for Carol”, for “Old-Doug”, for “Old-Carol”; losing faith in logic as key to human mind; love for Chopin and Bach; love for Prokofiev first violin concerto; as meat-eater; mini-samaritanism of; musical taste; as naïve as young careenium; physics background; picking at hangnail; playing piano; programming computer to write sentences; pronoun choices by; rambling on a bit too long; reacting to mother’s grief; reification of, in own and others’ brains; repudiating Parfit’s ideas; running; sadness increasing with age; savoring falafel eaten by sister; seeing sister’s expressions on own face; seeing souls as swirls of haze; sharing wife’s joys; shattered by Carol’s death; shooting elephants and rhinos with gusto; sitting on own lap; slipping back and forth between “classical” and “modern” views of soul; smiling like Hopalong Cassidy; souledness cone of; as specialist in thinking about thinking; speculating about soul mergers; studying languages; swallowing Chinese Room whole; taunted by advanced tomes on logic; teaching symbolic logic to sixth-graders; thrilled by two twos; throwing switches to tamper with own identity; troubled by readings about brains; troubles with mathematics; true to long-term beliefs; vegetarian leanings; vegetarianism oscillations; washing dishes and replaying dinner party with Carol; watching football on TV; wondering what it would be like; work in cognitive science; working for United Farm Workers; writing first dialogue

Hofstadter, Laura; eating falafel; expressions of, on brother’s face; reacting to photo of father; as sixth-grade student of symbolic logic; vegetarian leanings of

Hofstadter, Molly

Hofstadter, Monica; as catalyst to soul merger of parents; internalizing friends’ mannerisms; third birthday of; wearing nose-mounted TV camera

Hofstadter, Nancy; as All-Wise One to young son Douggie; “being” her husband, with an accent; called by son late at night; giving son Well-Tempered Clavier for sixteenth birthday; grieving over husband; model of her husband; putting on Chopin étude for son; savoring photos of her husband; seeking answers re daughter Molly

Hofstadter, Oliver; in kennel; movements controlled by joystick; webcam mounted on head of

Hofstadter, Robert; photo of; possibly living in brain of his son; seeking answers re daughter Molly

Hofstadter’s Law

hog, fully reductionistic view of

Holden Caulfield: personal gemma of; symbol for, inside brain of J. D. Salinger

hole in PM

Holiday, Billie

“holons”

honking in traffic jam

Hopalong Cassidy smile, tested out on classmates

hopes and aspirations of sunflowers

hopes and dreams, sharable as similar patterns in different brains

Horney, Karen

horse, limping and being beaten

horsies-and-doggies style of writing

Houdini, Harry

“How real is X?”

human beings as representationally universal machines

human condition; as belief in a myth; naïve view of; tied to coarse-grainedness of human perception; trapped in a quandary

human identity, video metaphor for

humpback, blue

Huneker, James

hunekers, as measure of souledness

hunekometer

hurricane as swirling pattern

hype about robot vehicle Stanley

hypothetical syllogism

I

i, Gödel number of Imp

“i” (half-pairson pronoun in Twinwirld)

“I”: analogous to Gödel’s strange loop; of another, as perceived by oneself; artificial; automatic consequence of perception; of baby; born out of generosity; as brain-independent essence; capitalization of; certain existence of; coarse-grained perception as crucial for; as commonsense belief of average person; denoting a couple; disintegration of; as efficient shorthand; as emerging from gloom; “empty” case of; flitting from brain to brain; “freely” overriding own will; as fusion of two hemispheres; germ of; growth of, over time; as hallucination; as illusion; indexicality of; indispensability of illusion of; infinitesimal changes in, over time; influenced by closest other “I” ’s; as lacking “God’s-eye view”; launching actions and receiving feedback; likened to epiphenomenal marble; as linguistic reflexes; locking-in of; as locus of causality; main brain of; missing from mosquito brain; more than one, per brain; as “most real” of all things; mystification of; as myth, self-reinforcing; needed, in order to be; not a crutch to be tossed later; not findable in physical activity; as outcome, not starting point; paradoxicality of; of particle physicist is no less entrenched; perceived as prime mover; as plural pronoun; questionable reality of; of robot vehicle; shades of gray in; in Siamese Twinwirld; simultaneously abstract and physical; spread out among many brains; as straightforward concept; as strange loop; as Strange-Loop City; as summary of much downward causality; survival value of illusion of; of symbols for other people; as third-person entity; as transportable from brain to brain; in Twinwirld; as unavoidable illusion; unbreakable feeling of; as unified representation of hopes, beliefs, etc.; vs. “i” and “Twe”

I Am a Strange Loop: analogies in; dialogues in; form–content interplay in; new ideas in; origins of; title of; zombie perspective advocated in

“I am alive” as reflex statement

“I am edible”/“I am inedible”

“I am large, I contain multitudes” (Whitman)

“I am lying”

“I am not a theorem”

“I am thirsty”, written on beer can

“I am unprovable”

I Am You (Kolak)

“I at the Center” (Oleson)

“I can’t tell you X”, as paradoxical phrase

Icelandic language, presumed opacity of

idealized image of oneself

ideas: causal potency of; interaction among

identical twins in Twinwirld

identical twinns in Twinwirld, tendency to split apart

identity, see personal identity

“if… then…”, formalization of

“i is not prim”

“I”-less mode of being human

illusion of consciousness

imagery, lack of

Imlac room

Imp, claim of infinitude of perfect numbers; contrasted with KG; hypothetical secondary meaning of; truth and unprovability of

inability to see low-level brain activity, as central to the strange loop of “I”-ness

inaccessibility of interiority of others

inaccessible core of passing strangers

inanimate matter, as substrate for animacy

incarceration, as indicative of soul-size

incompleteness of PM: deriving from PM ’s strength; due to system’s expressive power; following from Gödel’s formula’s existence

incomprehensibility of low-level view

inconsistency of PM following from any provable falsity

“indescribably”, as paradoxical adverb

index, ordeal of making a good

indexicality: barred by Russell; bypassing of, by Gödel; of “I” as magical; not needed for self-reference

Indian dinner chez Carol and Doug

“Indian hot” dishes

Indiana University

indirect motor control

indirect perceptual feeding

indispensable illusion of “I”

indistinguishability: of content-free loops; of self-containing singleton sets; of Universes Q and Z

inferiority complex as incommunicable feeling

infinite coincidence: apparent, in Fibonacci sequence; nonexistence of

infinite regress,; bypassed; of index entry; risk of

infinitely long formula

“Infinity, ho!”

influences of others on one’s growing soul

informational properties of molecules

inhabitation of several brains, see living

“inner light”, slowly turning on

inner voices, conflicting

insects, respect for lives of

insertion of elephant’s DNA into matchbox

insertion of huge number’s short description into PM formula

instantaneous jumping: across country; into someone else’s world

integers: describability of; flexibility and richness of; as underwriting video games; universality of, as missed by Whitehead and Russell; very large

intentionality, as synonym for having an “I”

interaction of unrelated-seeming notions in mathematics

interchangeable terms for “I”, soul, etc.

interesting vs. uninteresting integers; blurriness of the notion

interiority: entering into another’s; of Frédéric Chopin; of Carol Hofstadter; of Robert Hofstadter; of knee; of mosquitoes; preserved, by critical mass of surviving shards; of robots; secondary instantiations of; of symbols for other people; of tomato; varying levels of importability of

internal model of someone else as “wrong kind of structure” to be an “I”

internalization of outer world in brains and in careenium

interpenetrating human souls: denied by ordinary language; extent of; image of; as result of many intimate conversations

interpenetrating national souls

interword spacing, exerting control over content

Introduction to Logic (Suppes)

intuition pumps

inventors not foreseeing consequences

inverted-spectrum riddle; as fairy tale; floral variation; political variation; sonic variation; sports variation; timidity of

invisibility of numbers in today’s computers

irrelevance of lower-level details

isomorphisms: as formal analogies; as mediating reference

“is white”, color of

“It ain’t the meat, it’s the motion” (Mann and Glover)

Italian translation of Bach aria words

Italy, unclear boundaries of country and of nation

iteration in complex plane

J

James, William

jealousy, as causal agent

Jefferson, Thomas

“Jetzt bin ich ein strahlendes Paar”

Jewish sense of humor as explanatory device

Jews during Diaspora

“jilted”, as essence of Nicole episode

Jim (friend’s father)

Joan of Arc

jogger, in thought experiment

jokes, as causes of laughter

Jones, Peter

joystick control of remote robot (or dog)

judo, exploiting adversary’s strength

Jupiter, approached by comet

“just too very Berry”

K

k (Gödel number of Gödel’s formula fragment)

Karen, see Greg

Kasparov, Garry

Kennedy, Robert

Kern, Jerome

KG or KH, see Gödel’s formula

killing of animals

Kim, Scott

King, Carole

King, Jeannel, poem by

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

kits, electronic

KJ, Himalayan peak, unscalability of

Klagsbrun, Francine

Klee, Paul

Klüdgerot, the

Klüdgerotic condition

knees: awareness level of; as candidates for consciousness; reflex behavior of

knobs of Twinwirld

knowing, elusive nature of

knurking and glebbing; not physical processes but subjective sensations; reliably evoked independently of brain’s wiring

koans

Kolak, Daniel

Krall, Diana

Kriegel, Uriah

Külot, Gerd, drama critic, review of Prince Hyppia: Math Dramatica by

L

lambs as edible beings

landmark integers

language: acquisition of; as unperceived code; without self-reference

“language”, vagueness of the term

lap loop; photo of

large-souled vs. small-souled beings

Latin

leaf piles: as endowed with Leafpilishness; intrinsic nature of; as macroscopic entities

Leafpilishness, Capitalized Essence of

leather, purchase of

leatherette dashboard

Leban, Roy and Bruce

leg that is asleep

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von

Le Lionnais, François

Leonardo di Pisa (Fibonacci)

letters of the alphabet, as meaningless

level-confusion, prevalence of, in discussions of brain/mind

level-crossing feedback loops

level-shifts, perceptual

levels of description: causality at different; oscillation between

Lexington (in “Pig”)

liar paradox

liberty and imprisonment as flipped sensations

life: defined; as illusion; in Universe Z

Life, John Conway’s Game of

“light on inside”; suddenly extinguished

linguistic sloppiness in reference to robots

Linus (“Peanuts”)

lions: compassion of; conscience of; possible vegetarianism of

liphosophy

lists: abstract patterns having great reality for us; abstractions in brain having causal powers; accidental attachments of Leafpilishness dollops; actions launched by self; brain structures, in descending order; Carol’s losses; causes and effects; composers whose style the author borrowed from; concepts in canine minds; concepts involved in “grocery store checkout stand”; concepts involved in “soap digest rack”; conscious entities, according to panpsychists; copycat actions by the author; determining factors of identity; emotionladen verbs; entities without selves; epiphenomena at human size; episodes in one’s memory; famous achievements influencing the author; high-level causal agents; high-level phenomena in brain; high-level phenomena in mind; ideas beyond Ollie’s ken; importable mannerisms of other people; items of dubious reality in newspaper; items in hog’s environment; leaf-pile enigmaslist of principal lists in I Am a Strange Loop; low-level phenomena in brain; macroscopic reliabilities; macroscopic unpredictables; magnanimous souls; memories from Carol’s youth; mentalistic verbs; mundane concepts beginning with “s”; mythical symbols; names morphing from “Derek Parfit” to “Napoleon Bonaparte”; objects of study in literary criticism; obstacles that crop up at random in life; Parfit book’s chapter titles; people with diverse influences on the author; phrases denying interpenetration of souls; physical phenomena that lack consciousness; physical structures lacking hereness; potential personal attributes; potential symbols in mosquito brain; problems with Consciousness as a Capitalized Essence; prototypically true sentences; qualia; questions triggered by Gödel’s theorem; rarely thought-of things; realest things of all; recipients of dollops of Consciousness; scenic events perceived by no one; self-referential sentences; shadowy abstract patterns in brain; simultaneous experiences in one brain; small-souled beings; stuff without inner light; synonyms for “consciousness”; synonyms for “eagerness”; things I wasn’t but could imagine being; things of unclear reality beginning with “g”; traits of countries; unlikely substrates for “I”ness; video-feedback epiphenomena; video-feedback knobs; what makes the world go round; words with ill-defined syllable-counts; words for linguistic phenomena

literary criticism, objects of study in

Little Tyke, allegedly vegetarian lion

living inside someone else; see also survival; visitation

Löb, Martin Hugo

locking-in: of epiphenomena on TV screen: of “I”; of perceptions; of self

lockstep synchrony of Gödel numbers and PM formulas

logic of simmballs’ dance

Logical Syntax of Language, The (Carnap)

logicians’ use of blurry concepts

long sentence

loophole in set theory, Russell’s

love: for children leading to soul-entanglement; halo of concepts with which we understand love; as cause for marriage; inseparability from “I” concept; poorly understood so far in terms of quantum electrodynamics; profound influence on us of those whom we

“lower” animals, see hierarchy

lower-level events, see substrate

lower-level meaning of Gödel’s formula; ignoring of

low-level view of brains

low notes gliding into rumbles

low-resolution copies, see fidelity

Lucas, see Natalie

Lucy (“Peanuts”)

M

Machine Q vs. Machine Z

machines: with beliefs about free will; confused; conscious; creative; dedicated; downloading of; emulating other machines; with linguistic capacity; as necessarily unconscious; with opinions; reading and interpreting description of own structure; with souls; universal; who think vs. that think

Machines Who Think (McCorduck)

Macintosh, emulating Alienware machine

MacLaine, Shirley

macroscopic boundaries, irrelevant to particles

macroscopic forces as patterns

Madurodam

Magellan, Ferdinand

magic genie for all mathematical questions

magic square, ill-definedness of the notion

magical realism

magical thinking connected with “I”-ness

“magical” vs. “ordinary” entities

magnanimity; etymology of the word

“Mahatma”, etymology of

“main brain” of a given soul

Malagasy language, presumed opacity of

Mallory, George

Malraux, André

mammals as dividing line for food

Mandelbrot, Benoit

Mann, Lois

Mantle, Mickey

mapping: of colors to color sensations; at core of life; giving rise to meaning; of PM patterns into the world of numbers

“marbelous”, too much for words

marble, illusory, in envelope box; see also Epi

Margolin, Janet

marital bond, tightness of

Marot, Clément

marriage: of Carol and Doug; as soul merger; as third patient in counseling for a couple

Married People: Staying Together in the Age of Divorce (Klagsbrun)

Mars, teleportation to

Martin, Mary

Martin, Richard M.

Marx, Groucho

matheism

mathematical causality

mathematical community, blurriness of

mathematical reasoning unified with logic

mathematicians: as coffee-to-theorem convertors; as conjecture-to-theorem convertors; as cousins of Einstein; as pattern-seekers; perseverance of; as reason-seekers

Mathematician’s Credo; contradicted by Gödel’s formula; empirical confirmation of; flip side of; presumably mechanized in PM

mathematics: blurry borders of the discipline; graduate school in; modeling itself; reasoning about itself; as study of patterns

Maxwell, James Clerk

maze, see hedge maze

McCorduck, Pamela

McCullers, Carson

McMahon, Miss (first-grade teacher)

meaning: as always mediated by mappings/analogies; in arbitrary substrates; as by-product of evolution of brains; as cause; as consequence of reliable alignment; as criterial for “I”-ness; emerging upon zooming-out; made from meaningless constituents; molecular, mediated by mapping; in music; unintended by author

meaningless marks on paper

meaninglessness: alleged, of self-reference; of low-level brain activity; of PM symbols and strings

meat: different types, mixed; perception of; see also “It Ain’t”

meat-eating

mechanical symbol-shunting rules imbuing symbols with meanings

mechanization of reasoning

medical care, unequal distribution of

medium vs. message

“mega inconsistency”, see omega-inconsistency

members vs. non-members of number clubs

memes

memories of a loved one: coarse-grained copies in oneself; as infinitesimal soul-shards

memory: episodic; in reverberant barking; short-term and long-term; in video reverberation

memory organization packets

me-ness, see hereness, “Where am I ?”

Mendelssohn, Felix

mental spaces

mentalistic notions vs. physical substrate

metallic strip in Video Voyage I

“Metamagical Themas” column

metamathematics

metaphor salad

meteorites, absorption of, as metaphor for accretion of self

metric between minds

Michigan, University of

micro-events: invisibility of, in brain; irrelevance of

“microgödelinos”

microscope examining own lenses

“might makes right” as moral principle

Mignotte, Maurice

milk-pouring, predictability of

mind and matter, chasm between

mind–body problem for tomatoes

Mind’s I, The (Hofstadter and Dennett)

minerals, emergent properties of

mini-samaritanism

Minsky, Marvin

mirage of consciousness

mirrors mirroring mirrors

missing a plane, memory of

Mitchell, Melanie

mixed metaphors: for author’s plight; for Gödel’s construction

modus ponens

modus tollendo tollens

molecular biology reduced to physics

Molecular Gods: How Molecules Determine Our Behavior

molecules: existence of; irrelevance of; life stories of; submissive to desires; vs. thoughts; virtual, in computers

Monet, Claude

Monroe, Marilyn

moonroof, power, as distinct from consciousness

Moravec, Hans

morphing between two people

mortality, one’s own

Morton Salt, (blocked) infinite regress on label of

mosaic portrait of another person’s essence

Moser, David: admiration for Carol Hofstadter; brilliant wit of; grousing about lousy hosts; likened to devil incarnate

mosquitoes; complexity of brains of; equally conscious as humans; experience of blood of; experience of purpleness of; friendlessness; having no conscience, mercy, or pity; “I”-ness of; likened to flush toilets; likened to heat-seeking missiles; likened to thermostats; nondistributedness of; not deserving of rescue; qualia and; soullessness of; as swattable; symbols in

Mother Teresa

motorcycle roar, experience of

Moulin, Jean

mountaineers’ view of scalability of peaks

Muldaur, Maria

multiple “I” ’s in one head

multiple personalities

multiple simultaneous locations of self

music as cause for neuron (not) firing

music boxes, dedicated and universal

musical meaning, as outcome of patterns

musical styles, contrast between

musical taste (likes and dislikes) as deep aspect of human soul

mutual-avoidance dance of powers and Fibonacci numbers

mutual control and mutual perceptions lead to blur of identity

mutual inaccessibility of first-person cores

“my”: as concept of dog; as concept of human

“my brain”, meaning of

My Brother’s Place

myopic view: of domino chainium; of traffic jam

myself vs. others; see also hereness

mysteriousness of video reverberation

N

Nabel, Roy and Bruce, twinns

Nagel, Alexander (“Sandy”)

Nagel, Ernest

Nagel, Thomas

naïve view of self, as analogous to Newtonian physics

names of expressions

naming conventions as reinforcing naïve ideas of identity

Napoleon

Natalie and Lucas, Twinwirld twildren

needle in groove, timing of

neither fish nor fowl

Nemo, Captain

nesting of concepts

Nether Wallop

Neumann, John von

neural loop in brain

neurology, bypassing of

neurons; as wrong level of brain at which to seek consciousness

neuroscientists’ view of brains and “I”; see also Sperry

Nevada desert as testbed for robot vehicles

Newman, James R.

Newtonian physics, as analogous to naïve view of self

Nicole, prospective graduate student

Night at the Opera, A

1906, four-syllable description of

1931 (year)

Nobel address of Albert Schweitzer

Nombres remarquables, Les (Le Lionnais)

nonbelievability of The True View

“nondescript”, as paradoxical adjective

nondualism, lure and lacunas of

non-overlapping dots, human souls as

non-prim numbers, see saucy numbers

nonprovability and falsity, assumed equivalence of

non-self-awareness: of mosquitoes; of robot vehicles

“Non Serviam” (Lem)

non-universality of dogs’ brains

non-wellfounded set theory

noodle conflict

no one in brain at birth

“no one left to be sorry for”

“no symbols, no self”

“not”, as not the source of strangeness

notebooks filled with memories constituting soul-shards

notes, isolated, lack of meaning of

noun phrase, very long

novel: as an abstraction; meaning of, as arising from letters or words; as a pattern copied in different cultures; as a teleportation device

novelists as beings inventing other beings

nucleotides

number-crunching; ambiguity of; interpretable as text-processing, image-processing, etc.

“Number One” as primary soul in a brain

numbers: chameleonic nature of; dancing isomorphically to patterns; flexibility and richness of; invisibility of, in contemporary computers; mirroring formulas; as rich representational medium; as substrate for paradoxes

number theory, patterns in

numeral vs. number

O

obituary notices, one’s own

object files

objectively observable facts are irrelevant to the inverted-spectrum scenario

obscure numbers, near no landmarks

“Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An” (Bierce)

“Ode to a Box of Envelopes” (Jeannel King)

“O du angenehmes Paar” (Bach)

oil refinery, likened to brain

Oleson, David

omega-inconsistency of Y. Ted Enrustle’s work Prince Hyppia: Math Dramatica

“one”, as banished word

“one body, one name” as convention

“one body, one soul” dogma (also “one body, one person” and “one brain, one soul”); see also caged-bird metaphor

“one country, one people”

one-dimensionality of the inverted spectrum

144, salient square in Fibonacci sequence

“On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems (I)” (Kurt Gödel, 1931)

“On Formerly Unpennable Proclamations in Prince Hyppia: Math Dramatica and Related Stageplays (I)” (Gerd Külot, 1931)

“or”, possible rule of inference for

oracle for number theory (Göru)

orchard filled with colored butterflies, as metaphor for distributed human souls

order in disorder, as quest of mathematicians

ordinary vs. Gödelian formulas of PM

organ music

other humans, represented in our brains

“O thou charming bridal pair”

Our Inner Conflicts (Horney)

overlap of souls seen as zones in a space

Overseas Chinese, as halo of Chinese people

Owens, Jesse

P

P (the largest prime number)

paeonic meter hidden in text

page breaks, exerting control over content

Pagnol, Marcel, analogy-mediated meanings in film of

pairenthood, in Twinwirld

pairsonal identity in Twinwirld

pairsonal pronouns in Twinwirld

pairsons, in Twinwirld; inability to imagine how identical twinns feel; strong resistance to breaking into two halflings

“pangram”, self-referential, found by Lee Sallows

panpsychism

paper, valuable

paradox: in Drawing Hands; grazing of; inside mathematics; irrepressibility of; key role in strange loops; self-reference and; useful for pinpointing weaknesses in foundations of mathematics

paradoxophobia

Paraparte, Doleon

parenthood as soul merger

Parfit, Derek; morphed into Napoleon; radicalness of views of; self-doubt expressed by

parquet deformations

particle physicist’s “I”

particle viewpoint favored over “I”

particles: disrespect for macroscopic categories; vs. higher-level entities as causes; as serving higher-level forces in brain

Pascal, Blaise

pattern implies reason

pattern-searching in number theory

pattern-seekers vs. pattern-disdainers

patterns: causal potency of; infinite; reasons behind

Peano, Giuseppe

peanut-butter sandwich as flexible medium

“Peanuts” episode

pearl found in the Caspian sea

“peck-order” hierarchy in brain

peer pressure

Penfield, Wilder

Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers, The (Wells)

pennable lines, dramaturgical conventions for

people, as represented by symbols in brains

people vs. country

perception: in brains; in careenium; coarse-grainedness of; of consequences of one’s actions; of dancing symbols; as germ of “I”-ness; impossibility of suppression of; indispensability of, in creating an “I”; as level-changing shift in strange loop; of microscopic causes; of mosquitoes; of perceiver itself; primitive vs. fluid; vs. reception; in robot vehicles; as search for precedents and analogues; shades of gray of directness; through teleportation goggles; as two-way process; without perceiver

perceptual systems: growing over time; impoverished

perfect numbers, potential infinitude of

person: as point of view; shallower and deeper aspects of

personal gemma (Lem), as core of human identity; obliteration of; riding, diminished, on another’s hardware; see also Cartesian Ego

personal identity: coalescing slowly over time; as determined by brain, not vice versa; as determined by dollop doled out; as determined by most intense source of perceptual input; as determined by naming conventions and pronoun conventions; as determined by serial number; as determined by slider on wire; as determined by strange loop’s content; as incoherent notion; lacking in sewing machines; puzzles about, in a world with Consciousness; shared by the two halves of a pairson; untrustability of claims about

personality: layering of; space of

perversity of metamathematical results

Peterson, Nancy

Pfeiffer, John

philosophers: falling for Searle’s ploys; having ambitions of rigor; fear of being a zombie; knurking and glebbing without need for a brain

philosophizing like Roger Sperry

photograph: as evidence for reality; felt as meaningless; as set of soul-shards; triggering-power of

physical activity: hypothetically inadequate to explain feeling; as insufficient for skeptics; as sufficient for SL #641

physicality and “I”, conflict between

physics: as opposed to free will; as the sole type of causality

picket line in play, analogous to picket line outside theater

Pickwick, Samuel, Esq.

“Pig” (Roald Dahl short story)

piggybacked mappings

pig head, severed, on display

Pig Latin as language

piglet in Sardinian banquet

pigments in eyes

pinball machines and careenium

pistons pushed by pressure of gas

pitch: of audio feedback system; vs. rumble

pixel patterns on TV screen: as coding for events; as meaningless patterns when seen by dogs; as teleportation technology

planetoids, growing by collisions

plant and shoots, opposing caged-bird metaphor

plants as potentially having souls

Plath, James

Plato, as dialogue character

plays about plays

pleasure and displeasure as flipped sensations

Pluto, dubious category membership of

PM (formal system of Principia Mathematica); believed consistent by all logicians; destroyed by any provable falsity; enrichment of, still incomplete; expressive power of, as doom; Gödel numbering of; hope of completeness of; hope of consistency of; impossibility of gaining completeness by augmenting; notation of, exhibited; pointing at self is like video camera pointing at TV; proved incomplete by Gödel; as universal representational system

PM strings, edible vs. inedible

poems: found in the text; self-writing

point of view: missing in physical activity; as transportable and modular

pointers: in a mind, to other things; inwards-pointing; outwards-pointing

Poland surviving as abstract landless entity

Policansky, David

political feelings, innate

Pollock, Jackson, painting by

Pomponnette, straying cat

porcinal identity

“pork” vs. pigs

Porter, Cole

portrait of someone else in one’s brain, grain size of

Posh Shop Picketeers, The (Rosalyn Wadhead)

pottery vs. pattern

Poulenc, Francis

powers in the Fibonacci sequence; powers in the wff numbers

“preceded by itself in quote marks”

precision, lack of, in language

predictable macroscopic phenomena

preludes and fugues

Presley, Elvis

pressure, as emergent phenomenon

pressures collectively dictating pathway in life

prim numbers; as apex of 46-story abstraction tower; infinitude of; mirroring provable formulas; recognized by Göru; sums of two; uncanny power of; unpredictability of; as valid subject of study in number theory

primary location of being, blurriness of

primary meaning of KG, see lower-level meaning

primary self, associated with a given brain; unthreatened by coarse-grained rivals

primary swirl, as personal gemma

prime factorizations of integers

prime mover (641)

prime numbers; of form 4n + 1 vs. form 4n + 3gaps between; infinitude of; machine for detecting; sums of two; as sums of two squares

Prince Hyppia

Prince Hyppia: Math Dramatica (Y. Ted Enrustle)

Princess Bloppia

Principia Mathematica (Whitehead and Russell)hypothetical volumes devoted to wff numbers and prim numbers; as intrinsically vulnerable to self-reference; as invaded fortress; one page of; opening with self-reference; praised by Gödel; prickly notation of; as solid foundation for all of mathematics; its strength is its weakness; studying its own properties

prisons, morality of

privileged strange loop in brain

probability theory, origin in gambling

projectory, see episodic

Prokofiev, Sergei; piano concerto #3; violin concerto #1

“pro-lifer-ate”

pronouns: as embodying default assumptions; as self-referential devices; used in text in unusual manner; see also indexicality

pronoun conventions: as reflecting degree of souledness; as reflecting one’s beliefs about identity; as reinforcing naïve ideas of identity; in violation of naïve ideas of identity

proof in geology

proof in mathematics; assumed equivalence to truth; unclear nature of; vs. computer searches

provable formulas of PM (theorems); always true

Provable-KG Scenario; assumed; not believed by KG; shown wrong

pseudo-memories as valid memories

psychological continuity

psychopaths, violent, as low-huneker beings

pulsating patterns in video feedback

puns, tested out

purpleness, experience of

Pushkin, Alexander

pushovers, naïve (author and reader alike)

putting on and taking off someone else’s style

Q

Q (the product of all prime numbers)

Qéé Dzhii, numerologist in Prince Hyppia

qualia, as ineffable, primordial experiences; toilets and; as usual sine qua non for consciousness

Quandary, The

quantum electrodynamics

quantum-mechanical collisions as ultimate reality

quantum mechanics, development of

quarks

Quine, Willard Van Orman

Quine’s analogy for Gödel’s construction

Quine’s Quasi-Quip and Quine’s Quip; yielding self-referential sentence

quotation marks: analogous to taking Gödel numbers; proper use of; questionable use of; in self-referential sentences; shades of gray for

R

Racecar Power^®, as optional

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

radar

radicals

rainbow, as metaphor for “I”-ness

random glitches in mathematics

randomness of physical world but not of math

randomness of simm-level activity in careenium

ranking of creatures’ “value”

Rattner, Justin

Ravel, Maurice

raw sensation, see qualia, experience

reachable vs. non-reachable integers

Reagan, Ronald

reality: blurriness of; as determined by perception; dubious, of where one is located; grounding of; of higher-level view of living organisms; of “I”, tacitly presumed by average person; levels of; macroscopic patterns as “realest” level of; of pixel patterns on screen; sorting-out of

reasoning, mechanization of

reasonless pattern in mathematics

Reasons and Persons (Parfit)

reasons behind patterns

reception vs. perception

recursive rules: with outputs always larger than inputs; with outputs possibly smaller than inputs

recursively defined sets of formulas

recursively defined sets of integers

red and blue sensations, flipping of

red spot in Exploratorium

reductionism’s lack of respect for spatiotemporal boundaries

reductionist view: of careenium; of dog traits; of gas; hopeless complexity of; of video feedback; see also boundaries

Reductionist View (of Derek Parfit)

reference, as always mediated by analogy; direct vs. indirect, as matter of degree

reflexes vs. consciousness

regrouping as strategy in pattern-hunting

regularities in macroworld; in mathematics, as always having reasons

relativity

reliable macroscopic phenomena taken for granted

religion, as cause for war

remote events as causes

repertoires of symbols; as determinant of size of self; in dogs; extensibility of, in human minds; in mosquitoes; and representational universality

Replicator inside Teletransporter

representational universality of human brains

resonance frequency in audio feedback

resonance in personality space with others

resurrection of departed, in souls of living

reverberant barking

reverberant parking lot

reverence: for Bach; for life

rhyming prose

rhythmic prose

Richard, Jules

riddles about the Capitalized Essence of Consciousness

“right stuff ” vs. “wrong stuff ”: Searle’s refrain; as substrate of consciousness

ripples: as represented in symbols in brain; sent out and returning

Roberts, Lamar

robots: consciousness of; controlled by joysticks; engaged in collective honking orgy; location of body vs. location of “brain”; platoon of many clones, as all lifeless; transmitting perceptions to remote brain

robot vehicles; honking at each other; souls of

Rodgers, Richard

roller coaster: confused with baseball game; in movie theater

roman à clef

romantic situations, analogy between

Roosevelt, Eleanor

rope, swinging, unconsciousness of

Rosser, Kathleen

rouge means “blue”

Rovereto, Italy

R2-D2 (robot)

rubber-band brains

ruby found in the Caspian Sea

rules of inference; analogous to rules in recursive definitions; careful design of; ignoring all meaning; mirrored by computational rules; producing shorter output strings than input strings

running despite pain

running out of primes

Russell, Bertrand: banishing self-reference; banning self-containing sets; blindsided by Gödel’s insights; conceding there is meaning in PM formulas; denying there is meaning in PM formulas; employing self-referential language; formalizing reasoning; as paranoiac paradoxophobe; repelled by self-reference; second-worst nightmare; seeing only one level of meaning for PM strings; seemingly unaware of self-referential sentences in Principia Mathematica; unaware of integers’ universality; as whiteheaded alien from Ukia; worst nightmare

Russellian meaning of KG, see lower-level meaning

S

“s” (symbol in PM )

Sabatini, Silvia (lap-loop person “B”)

sacred cows, killing of

sacred vs. profane; Schweitzer on

Sadat, Anwar

Sagan, Françoise

Sallows, Lee

Sanskrit

Santa Claus, deconstructing of

sardines, see herrings

Sardinian pig roast

saucy (non-prim) numbers; preferred to prim numbers by Qéé Dzhii; recognized by Göru

saxophones and sassafras trees

Scanner inside Teletransporter

scarlet sardine

Schank, Roger

schism perceived between goal-lacking and goal-possessing entities

Schrödinger, Erwin

Schweitzer, Albert; Bach and; guns and; Günsbach and; as musician; rare compassion of; reverential style of, as Bach organist; on sacred vs. profane

science-fiction thought experiments; as liberating

Scientific American

scientific viewpoint as correct but too complex

Scriabin, Alexander

Searle, John

second meaning lurking in first meaning

secondary meaning of KG, see higher-level meaning

secondary swirl, as diluted “I” in another’s brain

seeds, in recursive definitions

seeing out from another’s viewpoint

seeing straight through pixels to events

self: inner layers of; middle layers of; outer layers of; reality of; as union of two half-selves

self-affirming formula

Self-Analysis (Horney)

self-awareness, limited: of children; of dogs; of robot vehicles

self-confidence vs. self-doubt

self-delusion as part of self-symbol

self-destruction of audio feedback system

self-inventorying sentences

selflessness; and soul-full-ness

self-perception; of dogs; of humans; of mosquitoes; naturalness of; of robot vehicles

self-reference: banishment of; as cause for PM ’s incompleteness; centrality of, in life; essential; as innocuous; of Principia Mathematica; via reference to clone; seemingly direct but actually indirect; as spelled out by Gödel; without indexicality; without infinite regress

self-referential sentences; failed attempts at constructing; in Principia Mathematica; without indexicals

self-reproduction, Gödelian mechanisms of

self-stabilizing structures

self-symbol: accreting over time; of careenium; coarse-grained copies of, in others; of dog; initial emptiness of; locking-in of; seen as strange loop, reasons for; self-delusions in

self-undermining words and phrases

Sellers, Peter

“semantic juice”, as underwriting meaning and “aboutness”

semantics: and machinery; possession of, as criterial for consciousness; quibbling over as serious; transplantable to other brains

semiclassical view: of quantum phenomena; of self and soul

sense of humor as brain structure

sensual experiences, as basis for consciousness

sentences that inventory each other

serial numbers, as determining human identity

Seuss, Dr.

Seven Year Itch, The

1729, as interesting number

72900 (code number for “0=0”)

777,777, short descriptions of

sewing machines, as indistinguishable zombies

sex of child, determined by microscopic factors

sexist language and sexist thinking; exemplified

sexuality: as bedrock cause for humans; in Twinwirld

shades of gray: of consciousness; for mentalistic verbs; for perception; in personality space; for quotation marks; for reality; for souledness; for where one is

Shahn, Ben

Shakespeare, William

shared goals leading to shared identity

shared yearnings

Shell sign, reality of top side of

shopping cart, reliability of

shorthands, as necessary for survival

Shostakovich, Dmitri

shout into chasm

Shultz, Charles

Siamese Twinwirld

signals, as triggering symbols

signature done via hard-wired motor control vs. via linguistic instructions

Siksek, Samir

simballic “logic”

simmballs (in careenium); imbued with meaning

simms (“small interacting magnetic marbles”); as blurry soup

simms vs. simmballs

simplification as human glory

simultaneous presence in multiple places

sincere belief as experienced by a zombie

singing in unison

singletons and pairs in sequence of primes

62, as boring integer

641, primality of, as cause; role of, in history of mathematics

skeptics, voice of

skiing: unpredictability of; vacation in California

Skinnner, B. F., on self-referential sentences

skivaganzas

slaughterhouse, tour of

slavery

sleazeball, as familiar but blurry pattern

slider on wire determining identity

sliding scale: of consciousness; of élan mental; of symbol repertoire

slingshots

slippery slope of teleological language

slow vs. fast: controlling of bodies by brains; feeding of brains by perceptual systems;

Sluggo, daydreaming about himself

smallest uninteresting integer

“small-souled men”

small-souled vs. large-souled beings

smiling like Hopalong Cassidy

snippets of other people’s talk and inner worlds

“snow”, elusiveness of concept

“s0 + s0 = ss0”

“soap digest rack” explained in Sanskrit

“soap opera”: causality attached to the concept of; as deeply nested concept; as very real pattern

soaring up to into the sky

soaring up to into this guy

soccer ball, as goal-seeker

social hierarchies, position in, in self-symbol

Socrates, as dialogue character

software beings inside us

soil of novels and of souls

Solar System, vagueness of the notion

solid-state physics

Sommerfeld, Arnold

“Song of Myself ” (Whitman)

Sophie’s Choice

soul: and ability to think; architecture of; as dot located on a line; as efficient shorthand; expressed on face; of flea; floating up into heaven; higher-level, forged in marriage; as illusion; lacking in animals, dogma of; lacking in women, dogma of; likened to butterfly swarms; living in brains of other souls; of mosquito; of mouse; as pattern; as region along a line; serial number of; sizes of; slow growth of; sudden extinction of; traditional immortality of; in Twinwirld; value of; as wispy aura

soul merger: speculated about before Carol’s death; wedding ceremony as

soular corona

soular eclipse

souledness: correlation with musical taste; degrees of; increasing with age; not limited to 100 hunekers

soulless creatures

souls: deep vs. shallow alignment of; hierarchy of values of

soul-shards, survival of

soul-soil

sound transmission, predictability of

soup can in cart, reliability of behavior of

speaking in unison

spectrum of mentalistic verbs

speech, unpredictability of one’s own

sperms

Sperry, Roger

splashtacular scuba specials

splits in oneself (or in one self ) as suggesting presence of two or more selves

spotting the gist

spouse, death of, as trauma

spying on dog in kennel via webcam

squabbles among subselves for dominance in brain

squares; sums of two

squirting chemicals, in brain

“ss0 + ss0 = sssss0”, as conceivable PM theorem

stable volume of audio feedback

Stanford Elementary School

Stanford University

Stanley (robot vehicle); claimed to be “thinking”; counterfactual version of; episodic memory of; episodic projectory of; episodic subjunctory of; hopes and fears of; irrelevance of location of computer; self-image of; supposedly having “algorithmic equivalent of self-awareness”; what is lacking for an “I” to exist in it

Star Wars

statistical mechanics

statistical mentalics

statistical robustness of coin flips

steam-engine governor

steering wheels, reliability of

Stephen, the stoning of

sticking a formula’s Gödel number inside the formula itself

storytelling technique, efficacy of

strange loop: as core of “I”-ness; definition of; enhanced by élan mental; essence of; existence of; flavorings of; Gödel’s discovery of; growth of; illusory, in Drawing Hands; lack of, in mosquito; less than one per neonate brain; as level-crossing feedback loop; many per brain; nonphysicality of; one per brain; one privileged one, per brain; as paradoxical; in Principia Mathematica; seeming lack of identity; of selfhood, as trap; small size, in dog; as soul-less; as ungraspably elusive; “vanilla”; various “sizes” of; and video feedback

Strange Loops #641 and #642: dialogue between; names of; rift between

strangeness (of loops), essence of

strength of PM is its doom

strings of symbols; edible vs. inedible

strong force in physics

stuff of consciousness; see also feelium, élan mental

subjectless formula fragment by Gödel

subjectless sentence fragments

subjunctive replays of episodes

subjunctory, see episodic

subselves; see also “i”

substrate of thought: improbability of a mind postulating it; invisibility of; irrelevance of details of

subsymbolic frenzy, imperceptibility of

subwoofers producing rumbles

“suffer along with”, meaning of “compassion”

suffrage inside brain, at desire level

Sullivan, Maxine

sunflowers as desire-possessing systems

Super-PM, just as incomplete as PM

super-prim numbers

Suppes, Patrick C.

survival: double; as function of transportability of one’s psychic point of view; as goal of living beings; key role of perception in; partial, in other brains; shades of gray in; via teleported clones

SUV’s

swing set; reliability of; symbol for

Swingle Singers

swirliness, transportability of, from one brain to another

switches thrown to change personality

syllable counting: in descriptions of integers; vagueness of the notion

symbol manipulation: by mathematicians; by PM

symbolic logic

symbolic nature of simmballs

symbols in brain: analogous to books in library; as by-product of evolution; dance of; defined; direct perceivability of; of dogs; hierarchical nesting of; of humans; “I” as most complex of all; joint activation of; of mosquitoes; perceived by other symbols; poofing out of existence; representing other people; triggering of, by episodes; triggering of, by signals; typical examples of; unlimited repertoire of, in humans

symbols on pages of Principia Mathematica forming patterns

sympathetic pleasure

synapses

synchrony: of Pomponnette and Aurélie; of prim numbers and PM theorems; of simmballs and outer world

synonymy of “I”, “self ”, “soul”, “consciousness”, “light on”, “first-person viewpoint”, “interiority”, etc.

T

tackiness, as familiar but blurry pattern

tactile illusion: as hint of wrongness of one-self view; of marble in envelope box, see Epi, marble

tail wagging dog

tall tale

tallness vs. souledness

Taoism; see also Zen

Tarski, Alfred

Tarzan and Jane

Tati, Jacques

“teetering bulb of dread and dream” (Edson)

Teleclones Mark IV and Mark V

teleological language: irresistible slide towards, in opaque systems; as shorthand

telephone menu tree, droning voices in

telephonic telepresence

teleportation; goggles giving impression of; to Mars; of thought experiment; to Venus

telepresence; via nose-mounted TV cameras; via novel-reading

Teletransporters (Parfit)

television salesperson

temperature: as cause; as emergent

tennis-playing

Tesler, Larry

“the present work”, “the present chapter”

theorems: as bottom lines of formal derivations; first, second (etc.) generations of; as meaningful patterns; as meaningless patterns; mirrored by prim numbers

theory of computation

theory of sets

theory of types; self-referentiality of chapter introducing

therapy sessions for bereaved spouses

thermodynamics vs. statistical mechanics

thermostats

thinking: ; with another’s brain; essence of; as synonym of consciousness

thinkodynamics vs. statistical mentalics

thirst: as collective pattern of many beer cans; as one beer can popping up

“This formula is not provable”

“This formula is provable”

“this sentence”, avoidance of indexical phrase

“This sentence is false”

“thit sentence”

Thomas, Dylan

“thou” addressed to married couple

thought: basic unit of; as dance of simmballs; as dance of symbols; as mere set of habits; as prime mover in brain

thought experiments: parameters tweaked in; teleported across Atlantic

thoughtmill churned by simms

“three three threes”

threshold of complexity: for computational universality; for representational universality

throwaway analogies, random examples of: between Buzzaround Betty and Hopalong Cassidy; between Cagey and Qéé Dzhii; between car buyers and heart surgeons; between consciousness and a power moonroof; between deconstructing the “I” and deconstructing Santa Claus; between Doug/Carol and a school of fish; between etymology and an X-ray; between exploration of video feedback and sea voyage; between form–content interplay and tail wagging dog; between John Searle and Dylan Thomas; between lack of imagery and lack of oxygen; between people and grasshoppers; between Principia Mathematica and Newton’s Principia; between reading Euclid’s proof and tasting chocolate; between reading “accessible” version of proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem and ordering “Indian hot”; between reverberant barking and a chain reaction; between Roger Sperry and Hopalong Cassidy; between Russell and God; between strange loop of “I”-ness and pearl necklace; between this book and a salad; between tired muscles and soft recruits; between top and bottom of Shell sign; between TV screen and leaf pile; between Twinwirld and Twinnwirrld; between will’s constancy and a gyroscope

throwing-away of information

time-lapse photography

Tinkertoys as substrate for thinking

Titanic baby found floating in life raft

titles of sections in Reasons and Persons chapter

toilet paper and pebbles as substrate for thinking

toilets, awareness level of

tomatoes as soulless

Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro

“too marbelous for words”

tornado cell, opposing caged-bird metaphor

tower of increasingly abstract definitions

toy guns, attempted banishment of

traffic jam, global explanation for

trains: identity of; who vs. that

transplanting: a novel to another soil; a soul to another soil

transportability, differential, of layers of a self

triggering of symbols in brain

Treisman, Anne

Trenet, Charles

Trento, Italy

Trojan horse, Gödel’s

true statements: Gödel numbers of; logicians’ favorite examples

trustability of sources of information

Truth and Denotation (Martin)

truth: as inexpressible notion using PM notation; preservation of, via rules of inference; presumed to be equivalent to provability in PM; and unprovability perversely entailing each other

tu (second-person singular pronoun) addressed to married couple

Turing, Alan Mathison

Turing machines

turkey as “which”, not “who”

TV camera: bolted to TV; on long leash; meltdown of; on short leash; universally worn on nose

TV screen as meaningless pixel pattern

“Twe” (first-pairson pronoun in Twinwirld); tweaking of

twildren in Twinwirld

Twinwirld; beings in; plausibility of; souls in; twiddling parameters of

Twinnwirrld

twisty formulas of Principia Mathematica

two bodies but one self

two twos

typeface vs. tale

types, rigid hierarchy of

typographical patterns mirrorable in number patterns

typographical rules of inference; mirrored by computational rules

U

“Über formal unentscheidbare Sätze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme (I)” (Gödel, 1931)

“umbrella girl” of Morton Salt

umlaut in “Gödel”

Unbridgeable You–Me Chasm

unfathomability of ourselves as good

uninteresting integers

universal beings; thirst for tastes of alien interiorities

universal: machines; music boxes

universality of computers; as missed by early computer engineers

universality of integers; as missed by early computer engineers; as missed by Whitehead and Russell

universality of PM

universality, representational, of humans; empathy as by-product of; threshold for

Universe Q vs. Universe Z

unlimited category system of humans

unpennable lines; pennability of

unprecedented situation as having many precedents

unpredictability: loci of, learning about; in video feedback

unscalability of Himalayan peak KJ

upside-down causality, see downward causality

upside-down perception: of PM strings by Klüdgerot; of world by humans

upside-down reasoning, conclusions drawn from meanings alone

upwards reasoning: in mathematics; in mountaineering

“useful vitality”

use–mention distinction

“W” (second-pairson pronoun in Twinwirld)

V

value of human and animal lives

vanishing point

vegetarianism: in lions, unlikelihood of; of Little Tyke (lion); reflections on

velvet, experience of

verbal behavior: as evidence for consciousness; as insufficient for skeptics

verbal habits, as reinforcing naïve sense of “I”-ness

vibrations vs. pitches

vicarious experiences: hunger for; smooth transition into “real” experiences; thanks to representational universality

victims of macroscopicness

video camera, purchase of

video feedback: as candidate for strange loop; epiphenomena in; fear of meltdown; fractalic gestalts of; lack of “I” in; lack of perception in; lack of symbols in; lack of thinking in; locking-in of patterns in; parameters of; reverberation in; two systems entwined in; vanilla loop in

video games, courtesy of integer arithmetic

videotapes: as important soul-shards; triggering of symbols by

Video Voyages I and II

violation of hierarchical order as essence of strange loop

violets and roses as flipped sensations

violin concertos, Prokofiev and Bartók

“Virtual Creatures” (Karl Sims)

virtual food as yielding nutrition

virtual people, influences of

virtual presence elsewhere

virtual vision via sonic communication

virtual worlds on computer screens

virtuosity vs. depth; Schweitzer on

visitation of one’s cranium by another being

volcano as explanatory entity

voodoo

voting inside brain

W

Wadhead, Rosalyn

Wagner, Richard

“wall” hit by marathoners

Wallenberg, Raoul

Waller, Fats

wants, see desires, will

wars: as caused by religious beliefs vs. by particle collisions; as soul-shrinkers

Washington, George

water glass as site of frenetic activity

Watt, James

wax, melting in sun on planetoid

way-stations in explanation of brain

weak force in physics

webcams

wedding cantata by Bach

wedding ceremony as soul merger

Weekly World News, The

well-formed formulas of PM (wffs)

Wells, David

Well- Tempered Clavier, The (Bach)

“wet”, elusiveness of concept

wff numbers

What is it like to be X ?

“what makes the world go round”

what makes you you and me me

“Where am I?”: Dennett fantasy; as genuinely relevant question in real life; as posed in teleportation fantasies

Whitehead, Alfred N.

Whitman, Walt

“who”: as denoting thousands of “how” ’s; as identity question; as question about meat; as synonym for Cartesian Ego; vs. “that”, see machines, Hattie Gutman, Chalmers, McCorduck

“Who shoves whom around?”

“Who was this meat once?”

whole numbers, banned by Klüdgerot

why: I am I and you are you; in mathematics

Wiles, Andrew

will: constrained by hard facts in the hedge maze of life; hypothetically overridden by itself; not free; as prime mover

Willfits, Bernek

Williams, Bernard

Williford, Ken

windmill blades turned by air

wine, putative quale of

Wired article on robot vehicles

wiring patterns independent of color qualia

wispy aura floating into heaven

women lacking souls, dogma of

“word” and other language-referring words

words: as alien to Zen; hollow; in isolation, as lacking power; as unanticipated names for video-feedback epiphenomena

written records, as important soul-shards

“wrong stuff ” for consciousness

Wunder, Susan

X

Xerxes and Yolanda, in tender clinch

Y

yolk, sacred

“you can’t get there from here”

You, city-limits version of

“you guys”

“you”-ness, sources of

“youthful vitality”

Z

“Z”, as rhyming with “dead”

Zen, as seeking to deconstruct the “I”

Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory

“0=0”

zombie: humans; leaf piles; robots; twin of Dave Chalmers

zooming in and out on careenium