I Am a Strange Loop

anthropomorphic language, temptation of

ants’ disrespect for property lines

“ants in my leg”

“Anything you can docan do meta”

arbitrarily extensible repertoires of categoriessee also concepts, symbols

arbitrarily subtle properties of whole numbers; see also universality

arbitrary mapping between stimuli and sensations

Archimedes

arithmetization of PM formulas

Arnheim, Rudi and Mary

Around the World in Eighty Days

arrangement as cause

artificial “I”, still far off

artificial intelligence; see also robots

“ashes to ashes, dust to dust”

atomes crochus, avoir des (“having hooked atoms”), as French for interpersonal chemistry

atoms as abstract entities

audio feedback; pitch of; vanilla loop in

Aurelie, straying wife

Aus meiner Kindheit und Jugendzeit (Schweitzer)

Austen, Jane

Austranius

authority, arguments by

Avogadro’s number

awareness: of dance of symbols; levels of, compared; see also consciousness, perception

axioms: analogous to seeds in recursion; as top lines of PM proofs

B

b (Berry’s number)

Babbage, Charles

baby: impoverished perceptual system of; lack of self at birth or conception

Bach, Johann Sebastian; cantata by; organ music by; tricentennial birthday party for

“bachelor”, elusiveness of concept

bad-breath analogy

bandwidth of communication as determinant of degree of interpenetration

banishment of toy guns from household

barber paradox

barberry jelly

“bare” strange loop of selfhood

barking, reverberant

Bartok, Bela; violin concerto # 2

baseball and football sensations swapped

Baskerville, John

basketball: skill in, as part of self-symbol; unpredictability of, when tossed

Beardsley, Dick

beauty, as bedrock cause for humans

“because” coinciding with “although”

Bechet, Sidney

beer cans and ping-pong balls as substrate for thinking

bees, swarm of, opposing caged-bird metaphor

Beethoven, Ludwig van

behaviors, attempted and evaluated

being: in two places at the same time; at two times in the same place

being someone else: economy-class version; with a “foreign accent”

beings: defined as systems having representational universality; modeling other beings

belief: as experienced by a zombie; shared by two people

believability of The True View

Berkeley, University of California at

Bernstein, Jeremy

Berry, G. G.

Berry’s paradox: as breeding ground for Godel’s theorem; as formalized by Chaitin; as strange-loop candidate

Bierce, Ambrose

“Bigger they are, harder they fall”

bile, single-edged or double-edged

biologists paying attention to informational rather than physical level of genes

birds saved by young Schweitzer

black-and-white smudges: as early teleportation technology; as soul-shards

black-belt maneuver by Godel

“black holes” in video feedback

bleu blanc rouge (colors of the French flag)

blocked infinite regress

blood, nonexperienced quale of

“blooming, buzzing confusion” (Wm. James)

Bloomington, Indiana

blue humpback

blueprint used in self-replicating machine

blurriness of everyday concepts

boat with endless succession of leaks

bodies vs. souls

body parts initiate self-representation

Bohr atom, as stepping stone en route to quantum mechanics

Bohr, Niels

boiling water, reliability of

Bonaparte, see Napoleon

bon mots: by Carol Hofstadter; by David Moser

“Book of nature written in mathematics” (Galileo)

Boole, George

boot-removal analogy

boundaries between souls, blurriness of

boundaries, macroscopic, as irrelevant to particles

box with flaps making loop

Brabner, George

brain activity: hiddenness of substrate of; modeled computationally; need for high-level view of; obviousness of high-level view of

brain-in-vat scenario

brain research, nature of