I Am a Strange Loop

splits in oneself (or in one self ) as suggesting presence of two or more selves

spotting the gist

spouse, death of, as trauma

spying on dog in kennel via webcam

squabbles among subselves for dominance in brain

squares; sums of two

squirting chemicals, in brain

“ss0 + ss0 = sssss0”, as conceivable PM theorem

stable volume of audio feedback

Stanford Elementary School

Stanford University

Stanley (robot vehicle); claimed to be “thinking”; counterfactual version of; episodic memory of; episodic projectory of; episodic subjunctory of; hopes and fears of; irrelevance of location of computer; self-image of; supposedly having “algorithmic equivalent of self-awareness”; what is lacking for an “I” to exist in it

Star Wars

statistical mechanics

statistical mentalics

statistical robustness of coin flips

steam-engine governor

steering wheels, reliability of

Stephen, the stoning of

sticking a formula’s Godel number inside the formula itself

storytelling technique, efficacy of

strange loop: as core of “I”-ness; definition of; enhanced by elan mental; essence of; existence of; flavorings of; Godel’s discovery of; growth of; illusory, in Drawing Hands; lack of, in mosquito; less than one per neonate brain; as level-crossing feedback loop; many per brain; nonphysicality of; one per brain; one privileged one, per brain; as paradoxical; in Principia Mathematica; seeming lack of identity; of selfhood, as trap; small size, in dog; as soul-less; as ungraspably elusive; “vanilla”; various “sizes” of; and video feedback

Strange Loops #641 and #642: dialogue between; names of; rift between

strangeness (of loops), essence of

strength of PM is its doom

strings of symbols; edible vs. inedible

strong force in physics

stuff of consciousness; see also feelium, elan mental

subjectless formula fragment by Godel

subjectless sentence fragments

subjunctive replays of episodes

subjunctory, see episodic

subselves; see also “i”

substrate of thought: improbability of a mind postulating it; invisibility of; irrelevance of details of

subsymbolic frenzy, imperceptibility of

subwoofers producing rumbles

“suffer along with”, meaning of “compassion”

suffrage inside brain, at desire level

Sullivan, Maxine

sunflowers as desire-possessing systems

Super-PM, just as incomplete as PM

super-prim numbers

Suppes, Patrick C.

survival: double; as function of transportability of one’s psychic point of view; as goal of living beings; key role of perception in; partial, in other brains; shades of gray in; via teleported clones

SUV’s

swing set; reliability of; symbol for

Swingle Singers

swirliness, transportability of, from one brain to another

switches thrown to change personality

syllable counting: in descriptions of integers; vagueness of the notion

symbol manipulation: by mathematicians; by PM

symbolic logic

symbolic nature of simmballs

symbols in brain: analogous to books in library; as by-product of evolution; dance of; defined; direct perceivability of; of dogs; hierarchical nesting of; of humans; “I” as most complex of all; joint activation of; of mosquitoes; perceived by other symbols; poofing out of existence; representing other people; triggering of, by episodes; triggering of, by signals; typical examples of; unlimited repertoire of, in humans

symbols on pages of Principia Mathematica forming patterns

sympathetic pleasure

synapses

synchrony: of Pomponnette and Aurelie; of prim numbers and PM theorems; of simmballs and outer world

synonymy of “I”, “self ”, “soul”, “consciousness”, “light on”, “first-person viewpoint”, “interiority”, etc.

T

tackiness, as familiar but blurry pattern

tactile illusion: as hint of wrongness of one-self view; of marble in envelope box, see Epi, marble

tail wagging dog

tall tale

tallness vs. souledness

Taoism; see also Zen

Tarski, Alfred

Tarzan and Jane

Tati, Jacques

“teetering bulb of dread and dream” (Edson)

Teleclones Mark IV and Mark V

teleological language: irresistible slide towards, in opaque systems; as shorthand

telephone menu tree, droning voices in

telephonic telepresence

teleportation; goggles giving impression of; to Mars; of thought experiment; to Venus

telepresence; via nose-mounted TV cameras; via novel-reading

Teletransporters (Parfit)

television salesperson

temperature: as cause; as emergent

tennis-playing

Tesler, Larry

“the present work”, “the present chapter”

theorems: as bottom lines of formal derivations; first, second (etc.) generations of; as meaningful patterns; as meaningless patterns; mirrored by prim numbers