I Am a Strange Loop

primary meaning of KG, see lower-level meaning

primary self, associated with a given brain; unthreatened by coarse-grained rivals

primary swirl, as personal gemma

prime factorizations of integers

prime mover (641)

prime numbers; of form 4n + 1 vs. form 4n + 3gaps between; infinitude of; machine for detecting; sums of two; as sums of two squares

Prince Hyppia

Prince Hyppia: Math Dramatica (Y. Ted Enrustle)

Princess Bloppia

Principia Mathematica (Whitehead and Russell)hypothetical volumes devoted to wff numbers and prim numbers; as intrinsically vulnerable to self-reference; as invaded fortress; one page of; opening with self-reference; praised by Godel; prickly notation of; as solid foundation for all of mathematics; its strength is its weakness; studying its own properties

prisons, morality of

privileged strange loop in brain

probability theory, origin in gambling

projectory, see episodic

Prokofiev, Sergei; piano concerto #3; violin concerto #1

“pro-lifer-ate”

pronouns: as embodying default assumptions; as self-referential devices; used in text in unusual manner; see also indexicality

pronoun conventions: as reflecting degree of souledness; as reflecting one’s beliefs about identity; as reinforcing naive ideas of identity; in violation of naive ideas of identity

proof in geology

proof in mathematics; assumed equivalence to truth; unclear nature of; vs. computer searches

provable formulas of PM (theorems); always true

Provable-KG Scenario; assumed; not believed by KG; shown wrong

pseudo-memories as valid memories

psychological continuity

psychopaths, violent, as low-huneker beings

pulsating patterns in video feedback

puns, tested out

purpleness, experience of

Pushkin, Alexander

pushovers, naive (author and reader alike)

putting on and taking off someone else’s style

Q

Q (the product of all prime numbers)

Qee Dzhii, numerologist in Prince Hyppia

qualia, as ineffable, primordial experiences; toilets and; as usual sine qua non for consciousness

Quandary, The

quantum electrodynamics

quantum-mechanical collisions as ultimate reality

quantum mechanics, development of

quarks

Quine, Willard Van Orman

Quine’s analogy for Godel’s construction

Quine’s Quasi-Quip and Quine’s Quip; yielding self-referential sentence

quotation marks: analogous to taking Godel numbers; proper use of; questionable use of; in self-referential sentences; shades of gray for

R

Racecar Power^®, as optional

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

radar

radicals

rainbow, as metaphor for “I”-ness

random glitches in mathematics

randomness of physical world but not of math

randomness of simm-level activity in careenium

ranking of creatures’ “value”

Rattner, Justin

Ravel, Maurice

raw sensation, see qualia, experience

reachable vs. non-reachable integers

Reagan, Ronald

reality: blurriness of; as determined by perception; dubious, of where one is located; grounding of; of higher- level view of living organisms; of “I”, tacitly presumed by average person; levels of; macroscopic patterns as “realest” level of; of pixel patterns on screen; sorting-out of

reasoning, mechanization of

reasonless pattern in mathematics

Reasons and Persons (Parfit)

reasons behind patterns

reception vs. perception

recursive rules: with outputs always larger than inputs; with outputs possibly smaller than inputs

recursively defined sets of formulas

recursively defined sets of integers

red and blue sensations, flipping of

red spot in Exploratorium

reductionism’s lack of respect for spatiotemporal boundaries

reductionist view: of careenium; of dog traits; of gas; hopeless complexity of; of video feedback; see also boundaries

Reductionist View (of Derek Parfit)

reference, as always mediated by analogy; direct vs. indirect, as matter of degree

reflexes vs. consciousness

regrouping as strategy in pattern-hunting

regularities in macroworld; in mathematics, as always having reasons

relativity

reliable macroscopic phenomena taken for granted

religion, as cause for war

remote events as causes

repertoires of symbols; as determinant of size of self; in dogs; extensibility of, in human minds; in mosquitoes; and representational universality