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subselves; see also “i”

substrate of thought: improbability of a mind postulating it; invisibility of; irrelevance of details of

subsymbolic frenzy, imperceptibility of

subwoofers producing rumbles

“suffer along with”, meaning of “compassion”

suffrage inside brain, at desire level

Sullivan, Maxine

sunflowers as desire-possessing systems

Super-PM, just as incomplete as PM

super-prim numbers

Suppes, Patrick C.

survival: double; as function of transportability of one’s psychic point of view; as goal of living beings; key role of perception in; partial, in other brains; shades of gray in; via teleported clones

SUV’s

swing set; reliability of; symbol for

Swingle Singers

swirliness, transportability of, from one brain to another

switches thrown to change personality

syllable counting: in descriptions of integers; vagueness of the notion

symbol manipulation: by mathematicians; by PM

symbolic logic

symbolic nature of simmballs

symbols in brain: analogous to books in library; as by-product of evolution; dance of; defined; direct perceivability of; of dogs; hierarchical nesting of; of humans; “I” as most complex of all; joint activation of; of mosquitoes; perceived by other symbols; poofing out of existence; representing other people; triggering of, by episodes; triggering of, by signals; typical examples of; unlimited repertoire of, in humans

symbols on pages of Principia Mathematica forming patterns

sympathetic pleasure

synapses

synchrony: of Pomponnette and Aurélie; of prim numbers and PM theorems; of simmballs and outer world

synonymy of “I”, “self ”, “soul”, “consciousness”, “light on”, “first-person viewpoint”, “interiority”, etc.

T

tackiness, as familiar but blurry pattern

tactile illusion: as hint of wrongness of one-self view; of marble in envelope box, see Epi, marble

tail wagging dog

tall tale

tallness vs. souledness

Taoism; see also Zen

Tarski, Alfred

Tarzan and Jane

Tati, Jacques

“teetering bulb of dread and dream” (Edson)

Teleclones Mark IV and Mark V

teleological language: irresistible slide towards, in opaque systems; as shorthand

telephone menu tree, droning voices in

telephonic telepresence

teleportation; goggles giving impression of; to Mars; of thought experiment; to Venus

telepresence; via nose-mounted TV cameras; via novel-reading

Teletransporters (Parfit)

television salesperson

temperature: as cause; as emergent

tennis-playing

Tesler, Larry

“the present work”, “the present chapter”

theorems: as bottom lines of formal derivations; first, second (etc.) generations of; as meaningful patterns; as meaningless patterns; mirrored by prim numbers

theory of computation

theory of sets

theory of types; self-referentiality of chapter introducing

therapy sessions for bereaved spouses

thermodynamics vs. statistical mechanics

thermostats

thinking: ; with another’s brain; essence of; as synonym of consciousness

thinkodynamics vs. statistical mentalics

thirst: as collective pattern of many beer cans; as one beer can popping up

“This formula is not provable”

“This formula is provable”

“this sentence”, avoidance of indexical phrase

“This sentence is false”

“thit sentence”

Thomas, Dylan

“thou” addressed to married couple

thought: basic unit of; as dance of simmballs; as dance of symbols; as mere set of habits; as prime mover in brain

thought experiments: parameters tweaked in; teleported across Atlantic

thoughtmill churned by simms

“three three threes”

threshold of complexity: for computational universality; for representational universality

throwaway analogies, random examples of: between Buzzaround Betty and Hopalong Cassidy; between Cagey and Qéé Dzhii; between car buyers and heart surgeons; between consciousness and a power moonroof; between deconstructing the “I” and deconstructing Santa Claus; between Doug/Carol and a school of fish; between etymology and an X-ray; between exploration of video feedback and sea voyage; between form–content interplay and tail wagging dog; between John Searle and Dylan Thomas; between lack of imagery and lack