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Eakins, Thomas, portrait of

“easy” and “hard” meanings of pixel patterns

eavesdropping, visual

eclipse of soul

ecstasy, unfelt

Edson, Russell

efficiency and survival

effortless decoding of isomorphism

egalitarian tendencies

ego, id, and superego

8, lonely cube in Fibonacci sequence

Einstein, Albert

élan mental; sliding scale

élan vital

election as metaphor for decision-making

electromagnetic spectrum, as giving rise to visual sensations

electromagnetism: as fundamental force; as having unquestionably precise properties

electron spin, as unquestionably precise fact

electrons in non-conductors and in metals

elephant: squeezing into matchbox; squeezing DNA of, into matchbox

email exchange with Dan Dennett; act of compressing

embassies of a country, opposing caged-bird metaphor

emergent forces as patterns

emergent phenomena: in brain; in complex plane; in everyday world, coming from quantum-mechanical substrate; in minerals; resulting from Principia Mathematica pointing at itself; in video feedback

Eminem

emotional forces, as coloring one’s opinions

empathy as by-product of representational universality

empirical evidence vs. proofs

emptiness

emulation by one machine of another

English language, imprecision of

English translation of Bach aria words

Enrustle, Y. Ted

entelechy

entrenchedness of “I”: in main brain; in other brains

entwinement: of feedback loops; of human souls

envelopes in box; not perceivable individually

Epi (apparent marble in envelope box); parameters determining reality of; poem about; possible explanatory power of; seeming reality of

Epimenides

epiphenomena: in brain; in careenium; in envelope box; in minerals; in video feedback

episodes as concepts

episodic memory: central role of, in “I”-ness; containing precedents for new situations; of dogs; of human beings

episodic projectory

episodic subjunctory

Erdös, Paul

Ernst, Tom

errors, study of

Escher, Maurits Cornelis

essence: extraction of, in brain; pinpointing of, as the goal of thought

essential incompleteness

essentially self-referential quality required to make an “I”

esthetic pressures as affecting content

études (Chopin)

etymologies of words

Euclid’s Elements

Euclid’s proof of infinitude of primes

Eugene Onegin (Pushkin)

Euler, Leonhard

Everest, Mount

everyday concepts defining human reality; blurriness of

evolution: of brain complexity; of careenium; and efficiency; of hearts; producing meanings in brains as accidental by-product; producing universality in brains as accidental by-product; throwing consciousness in as a bonus feature

existence: blurriness of, of “I”

experiences, as co-present with “I”-ness; as determining “I”, not vice versa; “pure”, as unrelated to physics

experiencers vs. non-experiencers

explanations, proper level of

Exploratorium Museum

exponential explosions

extensible category system of humans; and representational universality; yielding consciousness

extra bonus feature of consciousness

extra-physical nature of consciousness

F

F numbers; see also Fibonacci

fading afterglow of a soul

failures, perception of one’s own

faith in one’s own thought processes

falafel, savored by two brains

Falen, James

falsity in mathematics, assumed equivalent to lacking proof

Fauconnier, Gilles

Fauré, Gabriel

fear: of feedback loops; of self-reference; of self-representation in art

feedback loops; and central goals of living creatures; content-free; and exponential growth; as germ of consciousness; in growth of human self-symbol; as instinctive taboo; irrelevant to hereness, for SL #642; level-crossing; see also strange loops

feeding a formula its own Gödel number

feeling one is elsewhere

feeling posited to be independent of physics

feeling vs. nonfeeling machines

feelium, as stuff of experience and sensation

Feigen, George

Femme du boulanger, La (Pagnol), indirect meanings carried by analogy in

Fermat, Pierre de

Fermat’s Last Theorem, proof of

fetus having no soul

Fibonacci