I Am a Strange Loop - Douglas R. Hofstadter [254]
oracle for number theory (Göru)
orchard filled with colored butterflies, as metaphor for distributed human souls
order in disorder, as quest of mathematicians
ordinary vs. Gödelian formulas of PM
organ music
other humans, represented in our brains
“O thou charming bridal pair”
Our Inner Conflicts (Horney)
overlap of souls seen as zones in a space
Overseas Chinese, as halo of Chinese people
Owens, Jesse
P
P (the largest prime number)
paeonic meter hidden in text
page breaks, exerting control over content
Pagnol, Marcel, analogy-mediated meanings in film of
pairenthood, in Twinwirld
pairsonal identity in Twinwirld
pairsonal pronouns in Twinwirld
pairsons, in Twinwirld; inability to imagine how identical twinns feel; strong resistance to breaking into two halflings
“pangram”, self-referential, found by Lee Sallows
panpsychism
paper, valuable
paradox: in Drawing Hands; grazing of; inside mathematics; irrepressibility of; key role in strange loops; self-reference and; useful for pinpointing weaknesses in foundations of mathematics
paradoxophobia
Paraparte, Doleon
parenthood as soul merger
Parfit, Derek; morphed into Napoleon; radicalness of views of; self-doubt expressed by
parquet deformations
particle physicist’s “I”
particle viewpoint favored over “I”
particles: disrespect for macroscopic categories; vs. higher-level entities as causes; as serving higher-level forces in brain
Pascal, Blaise
pattern implies reason
pattern-searching in number theory
pattern-seekers vs. pattern-disdainers
patterns: causal potency of; infinite; reasons behind
Peano, Giuseppe
peanut-butter sandwich as flexible medium
“Peanuts” episode
pearl found in the Caspian sea
“peck-order” hierarchy in brain
peer pressure
Penfield, Wilder
Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers, The (Wells)
pennable lines, dramaturgical conventions for
people, as represented by symbols in brains
people vs. country
perception: in brains; in careenium; coarse-grainedness of; of consequences of one’s actions; of dancing symbols; as germ of “I”-ness; impossibility of suppression of; indispensability of, in creating an “I”; as level-changing shift in strange loop; of microscopic causes; of mosquitoes; of perceiver itself; primitive vs. fluid; vs. reception; in robot vehicles; as search for precedents and analogues; shades of gray of directness; through teleportation goggles; as two-way process; without perceiver
perceptual systems: growing over time; impoverished
perfect numbers, potential infinitude of
person: as point of view; shallower and deeper aspects of
personal gemma (Lem), as core of human identity; obliteration of; riding, diminished, on another’s hardware; see also Cartesian Ego
personal identity: coalescing slowly over time; as determined by brain, not vice versa; as determined by dollop doled out; as determined by most intense source of perceptual input; as determined by naming conventions and pronoun conventions; as determined by serial number; as determined by slider on wire; as determined by strange loop’s content; as incoherent notion; lacking in sewing machines; puzzles about, in a world with Consciousness; shared by the two halves of a pairson; untrustability of claims about
personality: layering of; space of
perversity of metamathematical results
Peterson, Nancy
Pfeiffer, John
philosophers: falling for Searle’s ploys; having ambitions of rigor; fear of being a zombie; knurking and glebbing without need for a brain
philosophizing like Roger Sperry
photograph: as evidence for reality; felt as meaningless; as set of soul-shards; triggering-power of
physical activity: hypothetically inadequate to explain feeling; as insufficient for skeptics; as sufficient for SL #641
physicality and “I”, conflict between
physics: as opposed to free will; as the sole type of causality
picket line in play, analogous to picket line outside theater
Pickwick, Samuel, Esq.
“Pig” (Roald Dahl short story)
piggybacked mappings
pig head, severed, on display
Pig Latin as language
piglet in Sardinian banquet