Douglas Hofstadter - I Am a Strange Loop

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 4 n + 1 vs. form 4 n + 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