I Am a Strange Loop - Douglas R. Hofstadter [246]
Fibonacci numbers; perfect mutual avoidance with powers
fidelity of copy of another’s interiority
Fields, W. C.
fine-grained vs. coarse-grained loops
first-person vs. third-person view of “I”; see also The Hard Problem
first-person writing style
fish, respect for life of
flap loop; photo of
flexibility, maximal, of machines
flip side of Mathematician’s Credo
flipping-around of perceptual system
flirting with infinity
float-ball in flush toilet
fluid pointers
flush-toilet fill mechanism
food: for people in virtual environments; for virtual creatures
fooled by the realism of Drawing Hands
football: sensation swapped with baseball sensation; on television
forces: in the brain; in physics; vs. desires
forest vs. trees
form–content interplay
formula fragment in PM
43 and 49, as uninteresting integers
foundations of mathematics, quest for stable
fractalic gestalts of video feedback
frames as brain structures
Frank, Anne
Franklin, Benjamin
free will: of machine; as opposed to will; overridden by itself
Free Willie
Frege, Gottlob
French people having flipped color qualia
French translation: of Bach aria words; of “my leg is asleep”
Freud, Sigmund
friends: constituting threshold for consciousness; giving rise to “I”; personal identity of; self-inventorying sentences as; sharing of joys and pains of
Frucht, William
frustration of one’s will
funerals, purpose of
funneling of complex input into few symbols
fusion, psychic: of Chaplin twins; of halves in Twinwirld; of husband and wife; of souls, as inevitable consequence of long-term intimate sharing
G
g (Gödel number of Gödel’s formula); bypassing of; code number of unpennable line in play
“g is not prim”; see also KG
galaxies: colliding in cyberspace; colliding in space; emerging from video feedback
Galileo Galilei
Galois, Évariste, as radical
Gandhi, (Mahatma) Mohandas
gargantuan integers
gases, behavior of
gemstones found in the Caspian Sea
generosity, as bedrock cause for humans
genes: as abstract entities; human, as source of potential strange loop; as patterns copied in different organisms; as physical entities; as remote from real life
genetic code
Gershwin, George
Giant Electronic Brain
gleb/knurk fence; see also knurking
Glosspan, Aunt (in “Pig”)
Glover, Henry
glue: on dollops of Consciousness; on envelopes as source of Epi
gluons
gluttony vs. weight-watching
goal-lacking and goal-possessing entities, perceived schism between
goal-orientedness of systems, blurriness of
goals of living creatures
goals, shared
God: elusiveness of mathematical truth and; not a player of dice; reality of
Göd
Gödel, Escher, Bach: central message of; dialogues in; linking author with Bach; typesetting of; video feedback photos in; writing of
Gödel, Kurt; arithmetizes PM; believer in PM ’s consistency; birthyear of; as black belt; bypasses indexicality; code for PM symbols and formulas; concocts self-referential statement in PM; discovery of strange loop by; “God” in name of; growing up in Brünn; 1931 article of; as re-analyzer of what meaning is; respect for power of PM; sees analogy between Fibonacci numbers and PM theorems; sees causal potency of meaning of strings; sees representational richness of whole numbers; umlaut in name of; as young mathematician
Gödel numbering; freedom in; revealing secondary meaning of Imp
Gödel rays
Gödelian formulas, infinitude of
Gödelian swirl; ease of transportability; isomorphism of any two, at coarse-grained level; pointers in; see also strange loop
Gödel’s formula KG: condensability of; described through abbreviations; downward causality and; hiddenness of higher-level view of; high-level and low-level meanings of; higher-level view fantasized as being obvious; inconceivable length of; lack of indexicals in; as repugnant to Bertrand Russell; translated with the indexical pronoun “I”; truth of; unprovability of
Gödel’s formula KH, for Super-PM
Gödel’s incompleteness theorem: as proven by Chaitin; as proven by Gödel
Gödel’s Proof (Nagel and Newman)
Gödel’s strange