I Am a Strange Loop - Douglas R. Hofstadter [243]
central loop of cognition
cerulean sardine
chain of command in brain
chainium (dominos), causality in
Chaitin, Greg
Chalmers, David; zombie twin of
chameleonic nature: of integers; of universal machines
Chantal Duplessix, seeing pixel-patterns as events; missing second level of Aimable’s remarks
chaos, potential, in number theory
Chaplin twins, (Freda and Greta)
character structure of an individual
Chávez, César
chemistry: bypassed in explanation of heredity and reproduction; of carbon as supposed key to consciousness; reduced to physics; virtual, inside computers
“chemistry” (interpersonal); enabling people to live inside each other; as function of musical taste alignment; as highly real causal agent; as “hooked atoms”; lack of, between people
“chicken” (meat) vs. chickens
chickens as edible creatures
children: as catalysts to soul merger of parents; as having fewer hunekers than adults; self-awareness of
chimpanzees
chinchillas
Chinese people, as spread-out entity
Chinese Room
chirpy notes and deep notes interchanged
Chopin, Frédéric; étude Op. 25 no. 4 in A minor; étude Op. 25 no. 11 in A minor; nostalgia of; pieces by, as soul-shards of; survival of
chord–angle theorem
Christiansen, Winfield
church bells
Church’s theorem
cinnamon-roll aroma in airport corridor
circular reasoning, validity of, in video feedback
circumventing bans by exploiting flexible substrates
clarity as central goal
Class A vs. Class B prime numbers
classical view of human identity, see Cartesian Ego, caged-bird metaphor
clouds: interpreted in sophisticated and simple-minded ways; unconsciousness of
club: of all prime numbers; of all wff numbers
coarse-grained copies of a soul
coarse-grainedness: of others’ souls inside us; of perception; in video feedback
codons in DNA
coffee: tracked in real time by symbols in brain; turned into theorems by mathematicians
“Cogito ergo sum”
cognition, central loop of
Cohn, John H. E.
coincidences in mathematics
coin-flipping, as robust statistical phenomenon
collages, curious
collective phenomena, as valid causes
colloidal particles
color feelings as subjective inventions
colors triggering knurking or glebbing
columns in visual cortex
combustion engines
comet approaching Jupiter
communication ease between people, factors influencing
communication rate between brains: as determining number of souls present; hypothetically tweaked in thought experiments
communication rate between hemispheres as determining degree of unity of brain
communication, techniques for
compassion; etymology of the word
completeness of PM, hope for
complexity threshold for universality
comprehensibility as crucial for survival
compression of KG to humanly graspable size
computational universality
“computer” as merely a historic term
computer searches vs. proofs
computers: as computing devices; invisibility of computation within; as non-computing devices; programming of; Stanford University’s only
concepts: activation of; as brain structures; embodied in simmballs; handed to people on silver platter; nestedness of
Condition humaine, La (Malraux)
cone: of consciousness; of souledness
conscience: close link of concept and word to consciousness; of dogs, lions, and mosquitoes
consciousness: as an add-on feature to a brain; allegedly missing from my tale; another person’s, inside one’s own head; apparent but unreal; as automatic emergent consequence of brain design; as close relative of conscience; cone representing levels of; disintegrating; distributedness of; dollops of; equated with thinking; friendships, as criterial for; as illusion; locus, absence of; measured by musical taste; as mirage; not merely acting and claiming to be, but being; organic chemistry as source of; physicality of; as quantum phenomenon; “right stuff ” as source of; shades of gray in; and strange loops; as thinking; threshold for; vs. reflexes; the very stuff of
Consciousness, Capitalized Essence of
Consciousness Explained (Dennett)
consistency of PM: certainty of; hope for
consistency