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magical thinking connected with “I”-ness

“magical” vs. “ordinary” entities

magnanimity; etymology of the word

“Mahatma”, etymology of

“main brain” of a given soul

Malagasy language, presumed opacity of

Mallory, George

Malraux, André

mammals as dividing line for food

Mandelbrot, Benoit

Mann, Lois

Mantle, Mickey

mapping: of colors to color sensations; at core of life; giving rise to meaning; of PM patterns into the world of numbers

“marbelous”, too much for words

marble, illusory, in envelope box; see also Epi

Margolin, Janet

marital bond, tightness of

Marot, Clément

marriage: of Carol and Doug; as soul merger; as third patient in counseling for a couple

Married People: Staying Together in the Age of Divorce (Klagsbrun)

Mars, teleportation to

Martin, Mary

Martin, Richard M.

Marx, Groucho

matheism

mathematical causality

mathematical community, blurriness of

mathematical reasoning unified with logic

mathematicians: as coffee-to-theorem convertors; as conjecture-to-theorem convertors; as cousins of Einstein; as pattern-seekers; perseverance of; as reason-seekers

Mathematician’s Credo; contradicted by Gödel’s formula; empirical confirmation of; flip side of; presumably mechanized in PM

mathematics: blurry borders of the discipline; graduate school in; modeling itself; reasoning about itself; as study of patterns

Maxwell, James Clerk

maze, see hedge maze

McCorduck, Pamela

McCullers, Carson

McMahon, Miss (first-grade teacher)

meaning: as always mediated by mappings/analogies; in arbitrary substrates; as by-product of evolution of brains; as cause; as consequence of reliable alignment; as criterial for “I”-ness; emerging upon zooming-out; made from meaningless constituents; molecular, mediated by mapping; in music; unintended by author

meaningless marks on paper

meaninglessness: alleged, of self-reference; of low-level brain activity; of PM symbols and strings

meat: different types, mixed; perception of; see also “It Ain’t”

meat-eating

mechanical symbol-shunting rules imbuing symbols with meanings

mechanization of reasoning

medical care, unequal distribution of

medium vs. message

“mega inconsistency”, see omega-inconsistency

members vs. non-members of number clubs

memes

memories of a loved one: coarse-grained copies in oneself; as infinitesimal soul-shards

memory: episodic; in reverberant barking; short-term and long-term; in video reverberation

memory organization packets

me-ness, see hereness, “Where am I ?”

Mendelssohn, Felix

mental spaces

mentalistic notions vs. physical substrate

metallic strip in Video Voyage I

“Metamagical Themas” column

metamathematics

metaphor salad

meteorites, absorption of, as metaphor for accretion of self

metric between minds

Michigan, University of

micro-events: invisibility of, in brain; irrelevance of

“microgödelinos”

microscope examining own lenses

“might makes right” as moral principle

Mignotte, Maurice

milk-pouring, predictability of

mind and matter, chasm between

mind–body problem for tomatoes

Mind’s I, The (Hofstadter and Dennett)

minerals, emergent properties of

mini-samaritanism

Minsky, Marvin

mirage of consciousness

mirrors mirroring mirrors

missing a plane, memory of

Mitchell, Melanie

mixed metaphors: for author’s plight; for Gödel’s construction

modus ponens

modus tollendo tollens

molecular biology reduced to physics

Molecular Gods: How Molecules Determine Our Behavior

molecules: existence of; irrelevance of; life stories of; submissive to desires; vs. thoughts; virtual, in computers

Monet, Claude

Monroe, Marilyn

moonroof, power, as distinct from consciousness

Moravec, Hans

morphing between two people

mortality, one’s own

Morton Salt, (blocked) infinite regress on label of

mosaic portrait of another person’s essence

Moser, David: admiration for Carol Hofstadter; brilliant wit of; grousing about lousy hosts; likened to devil incarnate

mosquitoes; complexity of brains of; equally conscious as humans; experience of blood of; experience of purpleness of; friendlessness; having no conscience,