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
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