Trapped at the High Level
First Key Ingredient of Strangeness
Second Key Ingredient of Strangeness
Sperry Redux
CHAPTER 15 - Entwinement
Multiple Strange Loops in One Brain
Content-free Feedback Loops
Baby Feedback Loops and Baby “I” ’s
Entwined Feedback Loops
One Privileged Loop inside our Skull
Shared Perception, Shared Control
A Twirlwind Trip to Twinwirld
Is One or Two Letters of the Alphabet?
Pairsonal Identity in Twinwirld
“Twe”-tweaking by Twinwirld-twiddling
Post Scriptum re Twinwirld
Soulmates and Matesouls
Children as Gluons
CHAPTER 16 - Grappling with the Deepest Mystery
A Random Event Changes Everything
Desperate Lark
Post Scriptum
CHAPTER 17 - How We Live in Each Other
Universal Machines
The Unexpectedness of Universality
Universal Beings
Being Visited
Chemistry and Its Lack
Copycat Planetoids Grow by Absorbing Melting Meteorites
How Much Can One Import of Another’s Interiority?
Double-clicking on the Icon for a Loved One’s Soul
Thinking with Another’s Brain
Mosaics of Different Grain Size
Transplantation of Patterns
CHAPTER 18 - The Blurry Glow of Human Identity
I Host and Am Hosted by Others
Feeling that One is Elsewhere
Telepresence versus “Real” Presence
Which Viewpoint is Really Mine?
Where Am I?
Varying Degrees of Being Another
The Naive Viewpoint is Usually Good Enough
Where Does a Hammerhead Shark Think it is?
Sympathetic Vibrations
Am I No One Else or Am I Everyone Else?
Interpenetration of National Souls
Halos, Afterglows, Coronas
CHAPTER 19 - Consciousness = Thinking
So Where’s Consciousness in my Loopy Tale?
Enter the Skeptics
Symbols Trigger More Symbols
The Central Loop of Cognition
CHAPTER 20 - A Courteous Crossing of Words
CHAPTER 21 - A Brief Brush with Cartesian Egos
Well-told Stories Pluck Powerful Chords
What Pushovers We Are!
Teleportation of a Thought Experiment across the Atlantic
The Murky Whereabouts of Cartesian Egos
Am I on Venus, or Am I on Mars?
The Radical Nature of Parfit’s Views
Self-confidence, Humility, and Self-doubt
Morphing Parfit into Bonaparte
The Radical Redesign of Douglas R. Hofstadter
On “Who” and on “How”
Double or Nothing
Trains Who Roll
The Glow of the Soular Corona
CHAPTER 22 - A Tango with Zombies and Dualism
Pedantic Semantics?
Two Machines
Two Daves
The Nagging Worry that One Might Be a Zombie
Consciousness Is Not a Power Moonroof
Liphosophy
Consciousness: A Capitalized Essence
A Sliding Scale of Elan Mental
Semantic Quibbling in Universe Z
Quibbling in Universe Q
CHAPTER 23 - Killing a Couple of Sacred Cows
A Cerulean Sardine
Bleu Blanc Rouge = Red, White, and Blue
Inverting the Sonic Spectrum
Glebbing and Knurking
The Inverted Political Spectrum
Violets Are Red, Roses Are Blue
A Scarlet Sardine
Yes, People Want Things
The Hedge Maze of Life
There’s No Such Thing as a Free Will
