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INDEX
A
abbreviations piled on abbreviations
aboutness, double, of Godel’s formula
absorbing someone else’s essence
“abstraction ceiling” in author’s mind
abstractions: as causes; centrality of: formidable tower of, in human minds
abstractly swirling patterns
accidents in mathematics: absence of; possibility of
accretion: of self-model; of soul
Ackermann’s function
active symbols, see symbols
affinity of souls, see chemistry (interpersonal)
afterglow of a soul
Aimable, the village baker
“alacrity, celerity, assiduity”, etc.
Alfbert, the; dream of
Alf and Bertie’s Posh Shop
algorithmic information theory
Ali, Muhammad
Alienware machine, emulated by Macintosh
Alighieri, Dante
alignment: of PM theorems and code numbers; of truths and PM theorems; of two souls in married couple dedicated to common goals
allegoric license
“Alle Menschen Mussen Sterben” (Bach)
Alzheimer’s disease
ambiguity of operations inside computers
americain, pronunciation of the word in movie
amino acids
amplification of input in audio feedback; saturation of
analogies: central role of, in this book; as fabric of human thought; having force proportional to precision and visibility; index entries for; jumping out automatically; made by bees; as mediating reference; research on; retrieved automatically by new events; rivalry between two similar ones; seen as simmball patterns in the careenium; self-referential; as source of meaning; tossed off effortlessly; trivial-seeming examples; by W. V. O. Quine
analogies, serious examples of: between Alfbert and Whitehead/Russell; between audio and video feedback; between Aurelie and Pomponnette; between the author’s mind and others’ minds; between the author’s view of “I” and quantum mechanics; between beer cans and neurons; between brain and oil refinery; between brains and countries; between brains and PM as substrates for strange loops; between brain structures and genes or atoms; between butterfly swarms and souls; between careenium and brain; between careenium and pinball machine; between cars and dogs; between Chantal looking at movie and Russell looking at Godel’s formula; between children with muddy boots; between cookies on same plate; between couples; between crystal and orchard; between death and eclipse; between decision-making and political elections; between dedicated machines and music boxes; between dog looking at pixels and Russell looking at Godel’s formula; between domino chainium and traffic jam; between donning piece of clothing and identifying with someone else; between Doug and Carol; between edibility and provability; between electron clouds and human souls; between entwined video loops and entwined souls; between epiphenomena in brain and in mineral; between formula containing own Godel number and elephant in matchbox; between gems in Caspian Sea and powers in Fibonacci sequence; between genes and novels; between Godel’s construction and black-belt judo maneuver; between Godel number k and Morton Salt can; between Godel’s strange loop and video feedback; between grapplings with death and beautiful sailboat; between growing soul and accreting planetoid; between Guru and Goru; between heart and brain; between heart-shaped bread and heart on collar; between human soul and train; between “I” and dollar bill; between “I” and either “i” or “Twe”; between “I” and “Epi”; between “I” and video-feedback galaxy; between Imp and KG; between K. Godel’s article on Principia Mathematica and G. Kulot’s review of Prince Hyppia: Math Dramatica; between Kludgerot and Kurt Godel; between Leafpilishness and Consciousness; between learning to be someone else and learning a foreign language; between leg-tingles and ants (and ginger ale); between life and hedge maze; between listener not relating to Bartok and magnetic field not penetrating superconductor; between mosquito and flush toilet; between mosquito and heat-seeking missile; between mosquito and red spot; between naive careenium and young Doug; between Newtonian physics and naive view of self; between oneself and others; between pairsons and persons; between Parfit and Einstein; between picket lines in play and outside theater; between pieces of cake; between pixel patterns and events; between PM and sinking boat; between prim numbers and prime numbers; between Principia Mathematica and invaded fortress; between quoted phrases and Godel numbers; between recursion and plant growth; between recursive sequences of numbers and PM theorems; between robot vehicle and an ant; between Rosalyn Wadhead and Russell and Whitehead; between salt box and picture of salt box; between salt-box picture and Godel’s self- referential trick; between saucy numbers and unpennable lines in plays; between self-reference and self-replication; between self-symbol and video feedback; between Sluggo dreaming of himself and self-quoting sentence; between “soap digest rack” spelled out in Sanskrit and Godel’s formula spelled out in PM notation; between souledness and tallness; between Sperry’s and Godel’s balancing acts; between strange loops and selves; between symbols in brain and books in library; between uninteresting number and Berry’s number; between universal machines and chameleonic integers; between universal machines and people; between unpennable lines and unprovable strings; between unscalability of KJ and unprovability of KG; between video feedback and iteration in complex plane; between windmill and thoughtmill; between Xerxes’ breath and Yolanda’s breath; between Y. Ted Enrustle and Whitehead and Russell
Andromeda galaxy
animacy, found in inanimate substrate
animals: killing of; self-awareness of
another soul, living inside oneself
ant: crossing property lines; rescued; Schweitzer’s personal
Antarctica, reality of
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