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I Am a Strange Loop

categorization mechanisms: converting complexity into simplicity; as determining size of self; efficiency of

Caulfield, Holden

causality: bottoming out in “I”; buck of, stopping at “I”; of dogmas in triggering wars; and insight; schism between two types of; stochasticity of in everyday life; tradeoffs in; upside-down; see also downward causality

causal potency: of ideas in brain; of meanings of PM strings; of patterns

“causal powers of the brain”, semantic

cell phones as universal machines

Center for Research into Consciousness and Cognetics

Central Consciousness Bank

central loop of cognition

cerulean sardine

chain of command in brain

chainium (dominos), causality in

Chaitin, Greg

Chalmers, David; zombie twin of

chameleonic nature: of integers; of universal machines

Chantal Duplessix, seeing pixel-patterns as events; missing second level of Aimable’s remarks

chaos, potential, in number theory

Chaplin twins, (Freda and Greta)

character structure of an individual

Chávez, César

chemistry: bypassed in explanation of heredity and reproduction; of carbon as supposed key to consciousness; reduced to physics; virtual, inside computers

“chemistry” (interpersonal); enabling people to live inside each other; as function of musical taste alignment; as highly real causal agent; as “hooked atoms”; lack of, between people

“chicken” (meat) vs. chickens

chickens as edible creatures

children: as catalysts to soul merger of parents; as having fewer hunekers than adults; self-awareness of

chimpanzees

chinchillas

Chinese people, as spread-out entity

Chinese Room

chirpy notes and deep notes interchanged

Chopin, Frédéric; étude Op. 25 no. 4 in A minor; étude Op. 25 no. 11 in A minor; nostalgia of; pieces by, as soul-shards of; survival of

chord–angle theorem

Christiansen, Winfield

church bells

Church’s theorem

cinnamon-roll aroma in airport corridor

circular reasoning, validity of, in video feedback

circumventing bans by exploiting flexible substrates

clarity as central goal

Class A vs. Class B prime numbers

classical view of human identity, see Cartesian Ego, caged-bird metaphor

clouds: interpreted in sophisticated and simple-minded ways; unconsciousness of

club: of all prime numbers; of all wff numbers

coarse-grained copies of a soul

coarse-grainedness: of others’ souls inside us; of perception; in video feedback

codons in DNA

coffee: tracked in real time by symbols in brain; turned into theorems by mathematicians

“Cogito ergo sum”

cognition, central loop of

Cohn, John H. E.

coincidences in mathematics

coin-flipping, as robust statistical phenomenon

collages, curious

collective phenomena, as valid causes

colloidal particles

color feelings as subjective inventions

colors triggering knurking or glebbing

columns in visual cortex

combustion engines

comet approaching Jupiter

communication ease between people, factors influencing

communication rate between brains: as determining number of souls present; hypothetically tweaked in thought experiments

communication rate between hemispheres as determining degree of unity of brain

communication, techniques for

compassion; etymology of the word

completeness of PM, hope for

complexity threshold for universality

comprehensibility as crucial for survival

compression of KG to humanly graspable size

computational universality

“computer” as merely a historic term

computer searches vs. proofs

computers: as computing devices; invisibility of computation within; as non-computing devices; programming of; Stanford University’s only

concepts: activation of; as brain structures; embodied in simmballs; handed to people on silver platter; nestedness of

Condition humaine, La (Malraux)

cone: of consciousness; of souledness

conscience: close link of concept and word to consciousness; of dogs, lions, and mosquitoes

consciousness: as an add-on feature to a brain; allegedly missing from my tale; another person’s, inside one’s own head; apparent but unreal; as automatic emergent consequence of brain design; as close relative of conscience; cone representing levels of; disintegrating; distributedness of; dollops of; equated with thinking; friendships, as criterial for; as illusion; locus, absence of; measured by musical taste; as mirage; not merely acting and claiming to be, but being; organic chemistry as source of; physicality of; as quantum phenomenon; “right stuff ” as source of; shades of gray in; and strange loops; as thinking; threshold for; vs. reflexes; the very stuff of

Consciousness, Capitalized Essence of

Consciousness Explained (Dennett)

consistency of PM: certainty of; hope for

consistency of rock base of KJ

content: fed into “empty” feedback loop

contingent facts in geology but not math

continua of consciousness and souledness

control of your body by my brain

cookies that all taste good, by analogy

copies of another person’s memories, fidelity of

copycats, borrowing from others

core me-ness