I Am a Strange Loop - Douglas R. Hofstadter [242]
beings: defined as systems having representational universality; modeling other beings
belief: as experienced by a zombie; shared by two people
believability of The True View
Berkeley, University of California at
Bernstein, Jeremy
Berry, G. G.
Berry’s paradox: as breeding ground for Gödel’s theorem; as formalized by Chaitin; as strange-loop candidate
Bierce, Ambrose
“Bigger they are, harder they fall”
bile, single-edged or double-edged
biologists paying attention to informational rather than physical level of genes
birds saved by young Schweitzer
black-and-white smudges: as early teleportation technology; as soul-shards
black-belt maneuver by Gödel
“black holes” in video feedback
bleu blanc rouge (colors of the French flag)
blocked infinite regress
blood, nonexperienced quale of
“blooming, buzzing confusion” (Wm. James)
Bloomington, Indiana
blue humpback
blueprint used in self-replicating machine
blurriness of everyday concepts
boat with endless succession of leaks
bodies vs. souls
body parts initiate self-representation
Bohr atom, as stepping stone en route to quantum mechanics
Bohr, Niels
boiling water, reliability of
Bonaparte, see Napoleon
bon mots: by Carol Hofstadter; by David Moser
“Book of nature written in mathematics” (Galileo)
Boole, George
boot-removal analogy
boundaries between souls, blurriness of
boundaries, macroscopic, as irrelevant to particles
box with flaps making loop
Brabner, George
brain activity: hiddenness of substrate of; modeled computationally; need for high-level view of; obviousness of high-level view of
brain-in-vat scenario
brain research, nature of
brain-scanning gadgets
brain structures
brains: compared to hearts; complexity of, as relevant to consciousness; controlling bodies directly vs. indirectly; eerieness of; evolution of; as fusion of two half-brains; as inanimate; inhabited by more than one “I”; interacting via ideas; main; as multi-level systems; not responsible for color qualia; perceiving multiple environments simultaneously; receiving sensory input directly or indirectly; resembling inert sponges; unlikely substrate for interiority
Braitenberg, Valentino
bread becoming a gun
Brown, Charlie
Brownian motion
Brünn, Austria (birthplace of Kurt Gödel)
buck stopping at “I”
Bugeaud, Yann
bunnies as edible beings
“burstwise advance in evolution” (Sperry)
Bushmiller, Ernie
butterflies: not respecting precinct boundaries; in orchard, as metaphor for human soul
Buzzaround Betty
C
caged-bird metaphor; as analogous to Newtonian physics; hints at wrongness of; as ingrained habit; at level of countries and cultures; metaphors opposed to; normally close to correct; as reinforced by language; temptingness of
Cagey’s doubly-hearable line
cake whose pieces all taste bad, as inferrred by analogy
candles
cantata aria
Cantor, Georg
capital punishment
Capitalized Essences; canceled
careenium; growing up; self-image of; two views of; unsatisfactory to skeptics
Carnap, Rudolf
Carol-and-Doug: as higher-level entity; joint mind of; shared dreads and dreams of
Carolness, survival of
Carol-symbol in Doug’s brain: being vs. representing a person; triggerability of
cars: as high-level objects; pushed around by desires
Cartesian Eggo
Cartesian Ego; as commonsensical view; fading of
Cartesian Ergo
Cartier-Bresson, Henri
Caspian Gemstones, allegory of
casual façade as Searlian ploy
Catcher in the Rye, The (Salinger)
categories and symbols; see also repertoires
categorization mechanisms: converting complexity into simplicity; as determining size of self; efficiency of
Caulfield, Holden
causality: bottoming out in “I”; buck of, stopping at “I”; of dogmas in triggering wars; and insight; schism between two types of; stochasticity of in everyday life; tradeoffs in; upside-down; see also downward causality
causal potency: of ideas in brain; of meanings of PM strings; of patterns
“causal powers of the brain”, semantic
cell phones as universal machines
Center for Research into Consciousness and Cognetics
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