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human identity, video metaphor for

humpback, blue

Huneker, James

hunekers, as measure of souledness

hunekometer

hurricane as swirling pattern

hype about robot vehicle Stanley

hypothetical syllogism

I

i, Gödel number of Imp

“i” (half-pairson pronoun in Twinwirld)

“I”: analogous to Gödel’s strange loop; of another, as perceived by oneself; artificial; automatic consequence of perception; of baby; born out of generosity; as brain-independent essence; capitalization of; certain existence of; coarse-grained perception as crucial for; as commonsense belief of average person; denoting a couple; disintegration of; as efficient shorthand; as emerging from gloom; “empty” case of; flitting from brain to brain; “freely” overriding own will; as fusion of two hemispheres; germ of; growth of, over time; as hallucination; as illusion; indexicality of; indispensability of illusion of; infinitesimal changes in, over time; influenced by closest other “I” ’s; as lacking “God’s-eye view”; launching actions and receiving feedback; likened to epiphenomenal marble; as linguistic reflexes; locking-in of; as locus of causality; main brain of; missing from mosquito brain; more than one, per brain; as “most real” of all things; mystification of; as myth, self-reinforcing; needed, in order to be; not a crutch to be tossed later; not findable in physical activity; as outcome, not starting point; paradoxicality of; of particle physicist is no less entrenched; perceived as prime mover; as plural pronoun; questionable reality of; of robot vehicle; shades of gray in; in Siamese Twinwirld; simultaneously abstract and physical; spread out among many brains; as straightforward concept; as strange loop; as Strange-Loop City; as summary of much downward causality; survival value of illusion of; of symbols for other people; as third-person entity; as transportable from brain to brain; in Twinwirld; as unavoidable illusion; unbreakable feeling of; as unified representation of hopes, beliefs, etc.; vs. “i” and “Twe”

I Am a Strange Loop: analogies in; dialogues in; form–content interplay in; new ideas in; origins of; title of; zombie perspective advocated in

“I am alive” as reflex statement

“I am edible”/“I am inedible”

“I am large, I contain multitudes” (Whitman)

“I am lying”

“I am not a theorem”

“I am thirsty”, written on beer can

“I am unprovable”

I Am You (Kolak)

“I at the Center” (Oleson)

“I can’t tell you X”, as paradoxical phrase

Icelandic language, presumed opacity of

idealized image of oneself

ideas: causal potency of; interaction among

identical twins in Twinwirld

identical twinns in Twinwirld, tendency to split apart

identity, see personal identity

“if… then…”, formalization of

“i is not prim”

“I”-less mode of being human

illusion of consciousness

imagery, lack of

Imlac room

Imp, claim of infinitude of perfect numbers; contrasted with KG; hypothetical secondary meaning of; truth and unprovability of

inability to see low-level brain activity, as central to the strange loop of “I”-ness

inaccessibility of interiority of others

inaccessible core of passing strangers

inanimate matter, as substrate for animacy

incarceration, as indicative of soul-size

incompleteness of PM: deriving from PM ’s strength; due to system’s expressive power; following from Gödel’s formula’s existence

incomprehensibility of low-level view

inconsistency of PM following from any provable falsity

“indescribably”, as paradoxical adverb

index, ordeal of making a good

indexicality: barred by Russell; bypassing of, by Gödel; of “I” as magical; not needed for self-reference

Indian dinner chez Carol and Doug

“Indian hot” dishes

Indiana University

indirect motor control

indirect perceptual feeding

indispensable illusion of “I”

indistinguishability: of content-free loops; of self-containing singleton sets; of Universes Q and Z

inferiority complex as incommunicable feeling

infinite coincidence: apparent, in Fibonacci sequence; nonexistence of

infinite regress,; bypassed;