I Am a Strange Loop

line in play

“g is not prim”; see also KG

galaxies: colliding in cyberspace; colliding in space; emerging from video feedback

Galileo Galilei

Galois, Evariste, as radical

Gandhi, (Mahatma) Mohandas

gargantuan integers

gases, behavior of

gemstones found in the Caspian Sea

generosity, as bedrock cause for humans

genes: as abstract entities; human, as source of potential strange loop; as patterns copied in different organisms; as physical entities; as remote from real life

genetic code

Gershwin, George

Giant Electronic Brain

gleb/knurk fence; see also knurking

Glosspan, Aunt (in “Pig”)

Glover, Henry

glue: on dollops of Consciousness; on envelopes as source of Epi

gluons

gluttony vs. weight-watching

goal-lacking and goal-possessing entities, perceived schism between

goal-orientedness of systems, blurriness of

goals of living creatures

goals, shared

God: elusiveness of mathematical truth and; not a player of dice; reality of

God

Godel, Escher, Bach: central message of; dialogues in; linking author with Bach; typesetting of; video feedback photos in; writing of

Godel, Kurt; arithmetizes PM; believer in PM ’s consistency; birthyear of; as black belt; bypasses indexicality; code for PM symbols and formulas; concocts self-referential statement in PM; discovery of strange loop by; “God” in name of; growing up in Brunn; 1931 article of; as re-analyzer of what meaning is; respect for power of PM; sees analogy between Fibonacci numbers and PM theorems; sees causal potency of meaning of strings; sees representational richness of whole numbers; umlaut in name of; as young mathematician

Godel numbering; freedom in; revealing secondary meaning of Imp

Godel rays

Godelian formulas, infinitude of

Godelian swirl; ease of transportability; isomorphism of any two, at coarse-grained level; pointers in; see also strange loop

Godel’s formula KG: condensability of; described through abbreviations; downward causality and; hiddenness of higher-level view of; high-level and low-level meanings of; higher-level view fantasized as being obvious; inconceivable length of; lack of indexicals in; as repugnant to Bertrand Russell; translated with the indexical pronoun “I”; truth of; unprovability of

Godel’s formula KH, for Super-PM

Godel’s incompleteness theorem: as proven by Chaitin; as proven by Godel

Godel’s Proof (Nagel and Newman)

Godel’s strange loop: as inevitable as video feedback; as prototype for “I”-ness

Godel–Turing threshold for universality

“God’s-eye point of view”

Goldbach Conjecture; decided by Goru

Golden Rule

Goldsmith, John

good and bad, sense of, in growing self

Goru: falling short of hopes; machine for solving all mathematical problems; machine for telling prims from non-prims; non-realizability of

Gott ist unsre Zu versicht (Bach); counterfactual extension of

Gould, Glenn

gradations of consciousness

Graham’s constant

graininess: in representations of others; in video loops

grandmother cells

grand-music neuron

grass and souls

grasshopper rescued

gravitation

grazing of paradox

Greater Metropolitan You

“great soul” as hidden meaning of “magnanimous” and of “Mahatma”

green button, fear of pushing

Greg and Karen, Twinwirld couple

Greg’l and Greg’r

griffins, uncertain reality of

“grocery store checkout stand”: causality attached to the concept of; as nested concept; vignette involving

grocery stores’ meat displays

growth rules, recursive, defining sequences of numbers

growth rules, typographical, for strings in PM

guinea pigs sacrificed for science

gulf between truth and provability

Gunkel, Pat

guns fashioned from sandwiches

Guru, machine that tells primes from non-primes

Gutman, Hattie

Gutman, Kellie

H

h (Godel number of Godel’s formula KH)

“h is not a super-prim number”

H1 (robot vehicle)

halflings in Twinwirld

hallucination hallucinated by hallucination

halo: counterfactual, around personal identity; of each soul; of national souls

halves, left and right, in Twinwirld

hammerhead shark, location of

hands-in-water experiment

hangnails, reality of one’s own

hardness and roundness of Epi