I Am a Strange Loop - Douglas R. Hofstadter [258]
skivaganzas
slaughterhouse, tour of
slavery
sleazeball, as familiar but blurry pattern
slider on wire determining identity
sliding scale: of consciousness; of élan mental; of symbol repertoire
slingshots
slippery slope of teleological language
slow vs. fast: controlling of bodies by brains; feeding of brains by perceptual systems;
Sluggo, daydreaming about himself
smallest uninteresting integer
“small-souled men”
small-souled vs. large-souled beings
smiling like Hopalong Cassidy
snippets of other people’s talk and inner worlds
“snow”, elusiveness of concept
“s0 + s0 = ss0”
“soap digest rack” explained in Sanskrit
“soap opera”: causality attached to the concept of; as deeply nested concept; as very real pattern
soaring up to into the sky
soaring up to into this guy
soccer ball, as goal-seeker
social hierarchies, position in, in self-symbol
Socrates, as dialogue character
software beings inside us
soil of novels and of souls
Solar System, vagueness of the notion
solid-state physics
Sommerfeld, Arnold
“Song of Myself ” (Whitman)
Sophie’s Choice
soul: and ability to think; architecture of; as dot located on a line; as efficient shorthand; expressed on face; of flea; floating up into heaven; higher-level, forged in marriage; as illusion; lacking in animals, dogma of; lacking in women, dogma of; likened to butterfly swarms; living in brains of other souls; of mosquito; of mouse; as pattern; as region along a line; serial number of; sizes of; slow growth of; sudden extinction of; traditional immortality of; in Twinwirld; value of; as wispy aura
soul merger: speculated about before Carol’s death; wedding ceremony as
soular corona
soular eclipse
souledness: correlation with musical taste; degrees of; increasing with age; not limited to 100 hunekers
soulless creatures
souls: deep vs. shallow alignment of; hierarchy of values of
soul-shards, survival of
soul-soil
sound transmission, predictability of
soup can in cart, reliability of behavior of
speaking in unison
spectrum of mentalistic verbs
speech, unpredictability of one’s own
sperms
Sperry, Roger
splashtacular scuba specials
splits in oneself (or in one self ) as suggesting presence of two or more selves
spotting the gist
spouse, death of, as trauma
spying on dog in kennel via webcam
squabbles among subselves for dominance in brain
squares; sums of two
squirting chemicals, in brain
“ss0 + ss0 = sssss0”, as conceivable PM theorem
stable volume of audio feedback
Stanford Elementary School
Stanford University
Stanley (robot vehicle); claimed to be “thinking”; counterfactual version of; episodic memory of; episodic projectory of; episodic subjunctory of; hopes and fears of; irrelevance of location of computer; self-image of; supposedly having “algorithmic equivalent of self-awareness”; what is lacking for an “I” to exist in it
Star Wars
statistical mechanics
statistical mentalics
statistical robustness of coin flips
steam-engine governor
steering wheels, reliability of
Stephen, the stoning of
sticking a formula’s Gödel number inside the formula itself
storytelling technique, efficacy of
strange loop: as core of “I”-ness; definition of; enhanced by élan mental; essence of; existence of; flavorings of; Gödel’s discovery of; growth of; illusory, in Drawing Hands; lack of, in mosquito; less than one per neonate brain; as level-crossing feedback loop; many per brain; nonphysicality of; one per brain; one privileged one, per brain; as paradoxical; in Principia Mathematica; seeming lack of identity; of selfhood, as trap; small size, in dog; as soul-less; as ungraspably elusive; “vanilla”; various “sizes” of; and video feedback
Strange Loops #641 and #642: dialogue between; names of; rift between
strangeness (of loops), essence of
strength of PM is its doom
strings of symbols; edible vs. inedible
strong force in physics
stuff of consciousness; see also feelium, élan mental
subjectless formula fragment by Gödel
subjectless sentence fragments
subjunctive replays of episodes
subjunctory,