I Am a Strange Loop - Douglas R. Hofstadter [255]
pigments in eyes
pinball machines and careenium
pistons pushed by pressure of gas
pitch: of audio feedback system; vs. rumble
pixel patterns on TV screen: as coding for events; as meaningless patterns when seen by dogs; as teleportation technology
planetoids, growing by collisions
plant and shoots, opposing caged-bird metaphor
plants as potentially having souls
Plath, James
Plato, as dialogue character
plays about plays
pleasure and displeasure as flipped sensations
Pluto, dubious category membership of
PM (formal system of Principia Mathematica); believed consistent by all logicians; destroyed by any provable falsity; enrichment of, still incomplete; expressive power of, as doom; Gödel numbering of; hope of completeness of; hope of consistency of; impossibility of gaining completeness by augmenting; notation of, exhibited; pointing at self is like video camera pointing at TV; proved incomplete by Gödel; as universal representational system
PM strings, edible vs. inedible
poems: found in the text; self-writing
point of view: missing in physical activity; as transportable and modular
pointers: in a mind, to other things; inwards-pointing; outwards-pointing
Poland surviving as abstract landless entity
Policansky, David
political feelings, innate
Pollock, Jackson, painting by
Pomponnette, straying cat
porcinal identity
“pork” vs. pigs
Porter, Cole
portrait of someone else in one’s brain, grain size of
Posh Shop Picketeers, The (Rosalyn Wadhead)
pottery vs. pattern
Poulenc, Francis
powers in the Fibonacci sequence; powers in the wff numbers
“preceded by itself in quote marks”
precision, lack of, in language
predictable macroscopic phenomena
preludes and fugues
Presley, Elvis
pressure, as emergent phenomenon
pressures collectively dictating pathway in life
prim numbers; as apex of 46-story abstraction tower; infinitude of; mirroring provable formulas; recognized by Göru; sums of two; uncanny power of; unpredictability of; as valid subject of study in number theory
primary location of being, blurriness of
primary meaning of KG, see lower-level meaning
primary self, associated with a given brain; unthreatened by coarse-grained rivals
primary swirl, as personal gemma
prime factorizations of integers
prime mover (641)
prime numbers; of form 4n + 1 vs. form 4n + 3gaps between; infinitude of; machine for detecting; sums of two; as sums of two squares
Prince Hyppia
Prince Hyppia: Math Dramatica (Y. Ted Enrustle)
Princess Bloppia
Principia Mathematica (Whitehead and Russell)hypothetical volumes devoted to wff numbers and prim numbers; as intrinsically vulnerable to self-reference; as invaded fortress; one page of; opening with self-reference; praised by Gödel; prickly notation of; as solid foundation for all of mathematics; its strength is its weakness; studying its own properties
prisons, morality of
privileged strange loop in brain
probability theory, origin in gambling
projectory, see episodic
Prokofiev, Sergei; piano concerto #3; violin concerto #1
“pro-lifer-ate”
pronouns: as embodying default assumptions; as self-referential devices; used in text in unusual manner; see also indexicality
pronoun conventions: as reflecting degree of souledness; as reflecting one’s beliefs about identity; as reinforcing naïve ideas of identity; in violation of naïve ideas of identity
proof in geology
proof in mathematics; assumed equivalence to truth; unclear nature of; vs. computer searches
provable formulas of PM (theorems); always true
Provable-KG Scenario; assumed; not believed by KG; shown wrong
pseudo-memories as valid memories
psychological continuity
psychopaths, violent, as low-huneker beings
pulsating patterns in video feedback
puns, tested out
purpleness, experience of
Pushkin, Alexander
pushovers, naïve (author and reader alike)
putting on and taking off someone else’s style
Q
Q (the product of all prime numbers)
Qéé Dzhii, numerologist in Prince Hyppia
qualia, as ineffable, primordial experiences; toilets and; as usual sine qua non for consciousness
Quandary,