detailed knowledge as blocking understanding
dialogues
diamond found in the Caspian sea
dichotomy: between the animate and the inanimate; between the physical and the nonphysical
die, unpredictability of tosses of
Dirac, P. A. M.
direct feeding: of brain solely by hard-wired perceptual system; of screen A solely by camera A
direct
disease, microscopic causes of
dislodging: “I”-myth; “sun moves” myth
distance function in personality space
distorted image of self, in self-symbol
distributedness of human souls; butterfly metaphor for; easy to forget
dividuals, in Twinwirld
divine perversity
DNA
“dog”, category of
dog breeds, as proper level of discourse for dog breeders
doggie cam at kennel
dogmas, religious, as causing wars
dogs: compassion of; episodic memories of; as food; friends of; in heat; limited symbol repertoires of; magnanimity of; non-universality of; not entering into other dogs’ minds; as people; reverberant barking of; self- awareness of; size of strange loops in; as smaller-souled than humans; straining at the leash; as “who”, not “which”
dollops of Consciousness; fractional
domino chainium
Domino, Fats
domino theory of Cold War era
“doorways” in corridor
dots on a line, human souls likened to
doubts about “I”-ness
downloading virtual machines
downward causality; in brains; in careenium; in chainium; in combustion engines; disintegration of; in everyday life; in mathematics; in traffic jam
downwards reasoning: in mathematics; in mountaineering
dramaturgical conventions for pennable lines
drawn
dreads and dreams of sunflowers
dressing styles, tested out
droning, as telltale zombie behavior
Droste’s hot chocolate
dualism: espoused by some neuroscientists; ever so gently parodied; giving up on; grazed by Sperry; implied by inverted spectrum; murkiness of; mystical terms of; pulls and pitfalls of; rejected by SL # 642; riddles evoked by
E
Eakins, Thomas, portrait of
“easy” and “hard” meanings of pixel patterns
eavesdropping, visual
eclipse of soul
ecstasy, unfelt
Edson, Russell
efficiency and survival
effortless decoding of isomorphism
egalitarian tendencies
ego, id, and superego
8, lonely cube in Fibonacci sequence
Einstein, Albert
election as metaphor for decision-making
electromagnetic spectrum, as giving rise to visual sensations
electromagnetism: as fundamental force; as having unquestionably precise properties
electron spin, as unquestionably precise fact
electrons in non-conductors and in metals
elephant: squeezing into matchbox; squeezing DNA of, into matchbox
email exchange with Dan Dennett; act of compressing
embassies of a country, opposing caged-bird metaphor
emergent forces as patterns
emergent phenomena: in brain; in complex plane; in everyday world, coming from quantum-mechanical substrate; in minerals; resulting from
Eminem
emotional forces, as coloring one’s opinions
empathy as by-product of representational universality
empirical evidence
emptiness
emulation by one machine of another
English language, imprecision of
English translation of Bach aria words
Enrustle, Y. Ted
entelechy
entrenchedness of “I”: in main brain; in other brains
entwinement: of feedback loops; of human souls
envelopes in box; not perceivable individually
Epi (apparent marble in envelope box); parameters determining reality of; poem about; possible explanatory power of; seeming reality of
Epimenides
epiphenomena: in brain; in careenium; in envelope box; in minerals; in video feedback
episodes as concepts
episodic memory: central role of, in “I”-ness; containing precedents for new situations; of dogs; of human beings
episodic projectory
episodic subjunctory
Erdos, Paul
Ernst, Tom
