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Gödel–Turing threshold for universality

“God’s-eye point of view”

Goldbach Conjecture; decided by Göru

Golden Rule

Goldsmith, John

good and bad, sense of, in growing self

Göru: falling short of hopes; machine for solving all mathematical problems; machine for telling prims from non-prims; non-realizability of

Gott ist unsre Zu versicht (Bach); counterfactual extension of

Gould, Glenn

gradations of consciousness

Graham’s constant

graininess: in representations of others; in video loops

grandmother cells

grand-music neuron

grass and souls

grasshopper rescued

gravitation

grazing of paradox

Greater Metropolitan You

“great soul” as hidden meaning of “magnanimous” and of “Mahatma”

green button, fear of pushing

Greg and Karen, Twinwirld couple

Greg’l and Greg’r

griffins, uncertain reality of

“grocery store checkout stand”: causality attached to the concept of; as nested concept; vignette involving

grocery stores’ meat displays

growth rules, recursive, defining sequences of numbers

growth rules, typographical, for strings in PM

guinea pigs sacrificed for science

gulf between truth and provability

Gunkel, Pat

guns fashioned from sandwiches

Guru, machine that tells primes from non-primes

Gutman, Hattie

Gutman, Kellie

H

h (Gödel number of Gödel’s formula KH)

“h is not a super-prim number”

H1 (robot vehicle)

halflings in Twinwirld

hallucination hallucinated by hallucination

halo: counterfactual, around personal identity; of each soul; of national souls

halves, left and right, in Twinwirld

hammerhead shark, location of

hands-in-water experiment

hangnails, reality of one’s own

hardness and roundness of Epi

Hard Problem, The; see also first-person

hardware vs. patterns

“hard-wiring”: of hemispheric links; hypothetically tweaked; of motor control as source of identity; of perceptual hardware as source of identity

Hastorf, Albert H.

“he”, as hyped pronoun for robot vehicle

heart: architecture of; evolution of; summarizable as “a pump”

Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The (McCullers)

heart-shaped bread and heart on collar, analogy between

heat-seeking missile

“heavenly body”, vagueness of the term

hedge maze of life

Heisenberg, Werner

heliocentrism vs. geocentrism

hemisphere, cerebral, as site of a half-self

hemoglobin molecules, number of in body

Henkin, Leon

heredity studied at abstract before physical level

“hereness”, mystery of, for SL #642; as posed by Derek Parfit and Daniel Dennett

Herman, Robert

herrings: blue; red; see also humpback

hierarchy: of forces in brain; of living creatures; of recursive functions defined by Gödel; of souledness

higher-level logic, appeal of, to brains

higher-level meaning: downward causality and;of Gödel’s formula; hiddenness of, for KG; of Imp; obviousness of, for brains; of PM strings, as read by Klüdgerot; of Prince Hyppia’s outburst

higher-level soul, created in marriage

high-level view: of brain activity; of careenium; of dog genetics; of domino chainium; eclipsing low-level view; of Gödel’s formula; indispensability of; of life in general; of pixel patterns on TV screen; of traffic jam; of video feedback

Hilbert, David

Hilbert program

“hive spirit”

Hofstadter, Carol Ann Brush: being Doug; bon mots by; dubious transportability of deepest pointers inside; dying of brain tumor; eye-to-eye with Doug re children; gaze similar to Doug’s; as Indian-dinner giver; interiority of, survival of; love for Prokofiev first violin concerto; memorial service for; memories belonging to, copied inside Doug; personal losses of, as felt by Doug; physical suffering of, shared by Doug; as sharable pattern; soul-shards, survival of, in Doug; thinking with Doug’s brain; thought of in present tense after death; videotapes, as disorienting; washing dishes and replaying dinner party with Doug

Hofstadter, Daniel; as catalyst to soul merger of parents; internalizing friends’ mannerisms; spotting reverberant parking lot from air; wearing nose-mounted TV camera

Hofstadter, Douglas: arranging memorial