I Am a Strange Loop - Douglas R. Hofstadter [244]
content: fed into “empty” feedback loop
contingent facts in geology but not math
continua of consciousness and souledness
control of your body by my brain
cookies that all taste good, by analogy
copies of another person’s memories, fidelity of
copycats, borrowing from others
core me-ness
corona during soul eclipse; soular
corridors; helical; truncated vs. endless
Cosby, Bill
counterfactuals: in formation of human self; by Stanley
counting, ill-definedness of
country vs. people
cows: as edible beings; experience of purpleness of; sacred
creativity vs. rigid rules
credit card, understanding of
crimes against animals
critical mass of soul-shards needed to qualify as some kind of survival
crystal lattice of atoms, as metaphor
C-3PO (robot)
cuteness
cyclic refilling of leaky flush toilet
cynicism, potential, on reader’s part
D
Dahl, Roald
Dalí, Salvador
dance of simmballs as thought
dance of symbols: as constituting another’s soul; as constituting consciousness; perceived by yet other symbols; as thought
darts thrown at text, causing rewriting
David and Lisa
Davies, Dennis
Dawkins, Richard
dear eater
death of Carol Hofstadter
death’s sting, reduced
Debussy, Claude
decision procedures
decisions as votes
deconstructing the “I” à la Zen
dedicated: machines; music boxes
Deep Blue (chess-playing computer)
deepest beliefs of humans involve macro-level concepts
De Morgan, Augustus
Dennett, Daniel C.; email exchange between author and; on his friend’s “desperate lark”; putting motto into friend’s mouth; teleportation fantasy by; “Where Am I?” story by; on zombies
Dennis the Menace, on leg that’s asleep
Descartes, René
descriptions of integers: long and short; vague
desires: as causal agents; in conflict with each other; imputed to flush toilet; imputed to soccer ball; imputed to sunflowers and vines; on meta-level; as prime movers; thwarted by obstacles; unanalyzability of
Desperate Lark
destructive-teleportation scenarios
detailed knowledge as blocking understanding
dialogues
diamond found in the Caspian sea
dichotomy: between the animate and the inanimate; between the physical and the nonphysical
die, unpredictability of tosses of
Dirac, P. A. M.
direct feeding: of brain solely by hard-wired perceptual system; of screen A solely by camera A
direct vs. indirect: motor control, shades of gray in; perception, shades of gray in
disease, microscopic causes of
dislodging: “I”-myth; “sun moves” myth
distance function in personality space
distorted image of self, in self-symbol
distributedness of human souls; butterfly metaphor for; easy to forget
dividuals, in Twinwirld
divine perversity
DNA
“dog”, category of
dog breeds, as proper level of discourse for dog breeders
doggie cam at kennel
dogmas, religious, as causing wars
dogs: compassion of; episodic memories of; as food; friends of; in heat; limited symbol repertoires of; magnanimity of; non-universality of; not entering into other dogs’ minds; as people; reverberant barking of; self-awareness of; size of strange loops in; as smaller-souled than humans; straining at the leash; as “who”, not “which”
dollops of Consciousness; fractional
domino chainium
Domino, Fats
domino theory of Cold War era
“doorways” in corridor
dots on a line, human souls likened to
doubts about “I”-ness
downloading virtual machines
downward causality; in brains; in careenium; in chainium; in combustion engines; disintegration of; in everyday life; in mathematics; in traffic jam
downwards reasoning: in mathematics; in mountaineering
dramaturgical conventions for pennable lines
Drawing Hands (Escher), as strange-loop candidate; with one hand erasing
drawn vs. drawer, as upwards level-shift
dreads and dreams of sunflowers
dressing styles, tested out
droning, as telltale zombie behavior
Droste’s hot chocolate
du (second-person singular pronoun) addressed to married couple
dualism: espoused by some neuroscientists; ever so gently parodied; giving up on; grazed by Sperry; implied by inverted spectrum; murkiness