I Am a Strange Loop - Douglas R. Hofstadter [240]
Excerpts from Albert Schweitzer, Aus meiner Kindheit und Jugendzeit. © C. H. Beck, Munich, 1924. Personal translation for use in this book only, by Douglas Hofstadter. Reprinted with permission.
INDEX
A
abbreviations piled on abbreviations
aboutness, double, of Gödel’s formula
absorbing someone else’s essence
“abstraction ceiling” in author’s mind
abstractions: as causes; centrality of: formidable tower of, in human minds
abstractly swirling patterns
accidents in mathematics: absence of; possibility of
accretion: of self-model; of soul
Ackermann’s function
active symbols, see symbols
affinity of souls, see chemistry (interpersonal)
afterglow of a soul
Aimable, the village baker
“alacrity, celerity, assiduity”, etc.
Alfbert, the; dream of
Alf and Bertie’s Posh Shop
algorithmic information theory
Ali, Muhammad
Alienware machine, emulated by Macintosh
Alighieri, Dante
alignment: of PM theorems and code numbers; of truths and PM theorems; of two souls in married couple dedicated to common goals
allegoric license
“Alle Menschen Müssen Sterben” (Bach)
Alzheimer’s disease
ambiguity of operations inside computers
américain, pronunciation of the word in movie
amino acids
amplification of input in audio feedback; saturation of
analogies: central role of, in this book; as fabric of human thought; having force proportional to precision and visibility; index entries for; jumping out automatically; made by bees; as mediating reference; research on; retrieved automatically by new events; rivalry between two similar ones; seen as simmball patterns in the careenium; self-referential; as source of meaning; tossed off effortlessly; trivial-seeming examples; by W. V. O. Quine
analogies, serious examples of: between Alfbert and Whitehead/Russell; between audio and video feedback; between Aurélie and Pomponnette; between the author’s mind and others’ minds; between the author’s view of “I” and quantum mechanics; between beer cans and neurons; between brain and oil refinery; between brains and countries; between brains and PM as substrates for strange loops; between brain structures and genes or atoms; between butterfly swarms and souls; between careenium and brain; between careenium and pinball machine; between cars and dogs; between Chantal looking at movie and Russell looking at Gödel’s formula; between children with muddy boots; between cookies on same plate; between couples; between crystal and orchard; between death and eclipse; between decision-making and political elections; between dedicated machines and music boxes; between dog looking at pixels and Russell looking at Gödel’s formula; between domino chainium and traffic jam; between donning piece of clothing and identifying with someone else; between Doug and Carol; between edibility and provability; between electron clouds and human souls; between entwined video loops and entwined souls; between epiphenomena in brain and in mineral; between formula containing own Gödel number and elephant in matchbox; between gems in Caspian Sea and powers in Fibonacci sequence; between genes and novels; between Gödel’s construction and black-belt judo maneuver; between Gödel number k and Morton Salt can; between Gödel’s strange loop and video feedback; between grapplings with death and beautiful sailboat; between growing soul and accreting planetoid; between Guru and Göru; between heart and brain; between heart-shaped bread and heart on collar; between human soul and train; between “I” and dollar bill; between “I” and either “i” or “Twe”; between “I” and “Epi”; between “I” and video-feedback galaxy; between Imp and KG; between K. Gödel’s article on Principia Mathematica and G. Külot’s review of Prince Hyppia: Math Dramatica; between Klüdgerot and Kurt Gödel; between Leafpilishness and Consciousness; between learning to be someone else and learning a foreign language; between leg-tingles and ants (and ginger ale); between life and hedge maze;