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
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