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between listener not relating to Bartók and magnetic field not penetrating superconductor; between mosquito and flush toilet; between mosquito and heat-seeking missile; between mosquito and red spot; between naïve careenium and young Doug; between Newtonian physics and naïve view of self; between oneself and others; between pairsons and persons; between Parfit and Einstein; between picket lines in play and outside theater; between pieces of cake; between pixel patterns and events; between PM and sinking boat; between prim numbers and prime numbers; between Principia Mathematica and invaded fortress; between quoted phrases and Gödel numbers; between recursion and plant growth; between recursive sequences of numbers and PM theorems; between robot vehicle and an ant; between Rosalyn Wadhead and Russell and Whitehead; between salt box and picture of salt box; between salt-box picture and Gödel’s self-referential trick; between saucy numbers and unpennable lines in plays; between self-reference and self-replication; between self-symbol and video feedback; between Sluggo dreaming of himself and self-quoting sentence; between “soap digest rack” spelled out in Sanskrit and Gödel’s formula spelled out in PM notation; between souledness and tallness; between Sperry’s and Gödel’s balancing acts; between strange loops and selves; between symbols in brain and books in library; between uninteresting number and Berry’s number; between universal machines and chameleonic integers; between universal machines and people; between unpennable lines and unprovable strings; between unscalability of KJ and unprovability of KG; between video feedback and iteration in complex plane; between windmill and thoughtmill; between Xerxes’ breath and Yolanda’s breath; between Y. Ted Enrustle and Whitehead and Russell

Andromeda galaxy

animacy, found in inanimate substrate

animals: killing of; self-awareness of

another soul, living inside oneself

ant: crossing property lines; rescued; Schweitzer’s personal

Antarctica, reality of

Anterselva di Mezzo

anthropomorphic language, temptation of

ants’ disrespect for property lines

“ants in my leg”

“Anything you can docan do meta”

arbitrarily extensible repertoires of categoriessee also concepts, symbols

arbitrarily subtle properties of whole numbers; see also universality

arbitrary mapping between stimuli and sensations

Archimedes

arithmetization of PM formulas

Arnheim, Rudi and Mary

Around the World in Eighty Days

arrangement as cause

artificial “I”, still far off

artificial intelligence; see also robots

“ashes to ashes, dust to dust”

atomes crochus, avoir des (“having hooked atoms”), as French for interpersonal chemistry

atoms as abstract entities

audio feedback; pitch of; vanilla loop in

Aurélie, straying wife

Aus meiner Kindheit und Jugendzeit (Schweitzer)

Austen, Jane

Austranius

authority, arguments by

Avogadro’s number

awareness: of dance of symbols; levels of, compared; see also consciousness, perception

axioms: analogous to seeds in recursion; as top lines of PM proofs

B

b (Berry’s number)

Babbage, Charles

baby: impoverished perceptual system of; lack of self at birth or conception

Bach, Johann Sebastian; cantata by; organ music by; tricentennial birthday party for

“bachelor”, elusiveness of concept

bad-breath analogy

bandwidth of communication as determinant of degree of interpenetration

banishment of toy guns from household

barber paradox

barberry jelly

“bare” strange loop of selfhood

barking, reverberant

Bartók, Béla; violin concerto # 2

baseball and football sensations swapped

Baskerville, John

basketball: skill in, as part of self-symbol; unpredictability of, when tossed

Beardsley, Dick

beauty, as bedrock cause for humans

“because” coinciding with “although”

Bechet, Sidney

beer cans and ping-pong balls as substrate for thinking

bees, swarm of, opposing caged-bird metaphor

Beethoven, Ludwig van

behaviors, attempted and evaluated

being: in two places at the same time; at two times in the same place

being someone else: economy-class version; with