Douglas Hofstadter - I Am a Strange Loop

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