Douglas Hofstadter - I Am a Strange Loop

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