I Am a Strange Loop

Replicator inside Teletransporter

representational universality of human brains

resonance frequency in audio feedback

resonance in personality space with others

resurrection of departed, in souls of living

reverberant barking

reverberant parking lot

reverence: for Bach; for life

rhyming prose

rhythmic prose

Richard, Jules

riddles about the Capitalized Essence of Consciousness

“right stuff ” vs. “wrong stuff ”: Searle’s refrain; as substrate of consciousness

ripples: as represented in symbols in brain; sent out and returning

Roberts, Lamar

robots: consciousness of; controlled by joysticks; engaged in collective honking orgy; location of body vs. location of “brain”; platoon of many clones, as all lifeless; transmitting perceptions to remote brain

robot vehicles; honking at each other; souls of

Rodgers, Richard

roller coaster: confused with baseball game; in movie theater

roman a clef

romantic situations, analogy between

Roosevelt, Eleanor

rope, swinging, unconsciousness of

Rosser, Kathleen

rouge means “blue”

Rovereto, Italy

R2-D2 (robot)

rubber-band brains

ruby found in the Caspian Sea

rules of inference; analogous to rules in recursive definitions; careful design of; ignoring all meaning; mirrored by computational rules; producing shorter output strings than input strings

running despite pain

running out of primes

Russell, Bertrand: banishing self-reference; banning self-containing sets; blindsided by Godel’s insights; conceding there is meaning in PM formulas; denying there is meaning in PM formulas; employing self-referential language; formalizing reasoning; as paranoiac paradoxophobe; repelled by self-reference; second-worst nightmare; seeing only one level of meaning for PM strings; seemingly unaware of self-referential sentences in Principia Mathematica; unaware of integers’ universality; as whiteheaded alien from Ukia; worst nightmare

Russellian meaning of KG, see lower-level meaning

S

“s” (symbol in PM )

Sabatini, Silvia (lap-loop person “B”)

sacred cows, killing of

sacred vs. profane; Schweitzer on

Sadat, Anwar

Sagan, Francoise

Sallows, Lee

Sanskrit

Santa Claus, deconstructing of

sardines, see herrings

Sardinian pig roast

saucy (non-prim) numbers; preferred to prim numbers by Qee Dzhii; recognized by Goru

saxophones and sassafras trees

Scanner inside Teletransporter

scarlet sardine

Schank, Roger

schism perceived between goal-lacking and goal-possessing entities

Schrodinger, Erwin

Schweitzer, Albert; Bach and; guns and; Gunsbach and; as musician; rare compassion of; reverential style of, as Bach organist; on sacred vs. profane

science-fiction thought experiments; as liberating

Scientific American

scientific viewpoint as correct but too complex

Scriabin, Alexander

Searle, John

second meaning lurking in first meaning

secondary meaning of KG, see higher-level meaning

secondary swirl, as diluted “I” in another’s brain

seeds, in recursive definitions

seeing out from another’s viewpoint

seeing straight through pixels to events

self: inner layers of; middle layers of; outer layers of; reality of; as union of two half-selves

self-affirming formula

Self-Analysis (Horney)

self-awareness, limited: of children; of dogs; of robot vehicles

self-confidence vs. self-doubt

self-delusion as part of self-symbol

self-destruction of audio feedback system

self-inventorying sentences

selflessness; and soul-full-ness

self-perception; of dogs; of humans; of mosquitoes; naturalness of; of robot vehicles

self-reference: banishment of; as cause for PM ’s incompleteness; centrality of, in life; essential; as innocuous; of Principia Mathematica; via reference to clone; seemingly direct but actually indirect; as spelled out by Godel; without indexicality; without infinite regress

self-referential sentences; failed attempts at constructing; in Principia Mathematica; without indexicals

self-reproduction, Godelian mechanisms of

self-stabilizing structures

self-symbol: accreting over time; of careenium; coarse-grained copies of, in others; of dog; initial emptiness of; locking-in of; seen as strange loop, reasons for; self-delusions in

self-undermining words and phrases

Sellers, Peter

“semantic juice”, as underwriting meaning and “aboutness”