I Am a Strange Loop

goal-orientedness of systems, blurriness of

goals of living creatures

goals, shared

God: elusiveness of mathematical truth and; not a player of dice; reality of

Göd

Gödel, Escher, Bach: central message of; dialogues in; linking author with Bach; typesetting of; video feedback photos in; writing of

Gödel, Kurt; arithmetizes PM; believer in PM ’s consistency; birthyear of; as black belt; bypasses indexicality; code for PM symbols and formulas; concocts self-referential statement in PM; discovery of strange loop by; “God” in name of; growing up in Brünn; 1931 article of; as re-analyzer of what meaning is; respect for power of PM; sees analogy between Fibonacci numbers and PM theorems; sees causal potency of meaning of strings; sees representational richness of whole numbers; umlaut in name of; as young mathematician

Gödel numbering; freedom in; revealing secondary meaning of Imp

Gödel rays

Gödelian formulas, infinitude of

Gödelian swirl; ease of transportability; isomorphism of any two, at coarse-grained level; pointers in; see also strange loop

Gödel’s formula KG: condensability of; described through abbreviations; downward causality and; hiddenness of higher-level view of; high-level and low-level meanings of; higher-level view fantasized as being obvious; inconceivable length of; lack of indexicals in; as repugnant to Bertrand Russell; translated with the indexical pronoun “I”; truth of; unprovability of

Gödel’s formula KH, for Super-PM

Gödel’s incompleteness theorem: as proven by Chaitin; as proven by Gödel

Gödel’s Proof (Nagel and Newman)

Gödel’s strange loop: as inevitable as video feedback; as prototype for “I”-ness

Gödel–Turing threshold for universality

“God’s-eye point of view”

Goldbach Conjecture; decided by Göru

Golden Rule

Goldsmith, John

good and bad, sense of, in growing self

Göru: falling short of hopes; machine for solving all mathematical problems; machine for telling prims from non-prims; non-realizability of

Gott ist unsre Zu versicht (Bach); counterfactual extension of

Gould, Glenn

gradations of consciousness

Graham’s constant

graininess: in representations of others; in video loops

grandmother cells

grand-music neuron

grass and souls

grasshopper rescued

gravitation

grazing of paradox

Greater Metropolitan You

“great soul” as hidden meaning of “magnanimous” and of “Mahatma”

green button, fear of pushing

Greg and Karen, Twinwirld couple

Greg’l and Greg’r

griffins, uncertain reality of

“grocery store checkout stand”: causality attached to the concept of; as nested concept; vignette involving

grocery stores’ meat displays

growth rules, recursive, defining sequences of numbers

growth rules, typographical, for strings in PM

guinea pigs sacrificed for science

gulf between truth and provability

Gunkel, Pat

guns fashioned from sandwiches

Guru, machine that tells primes from non-primes

Gutman, Hattie

Gutman, Kellie

H

h (Gödel number of Gödel’s formula KH)

“h is not a super-prim number”

H1 (robot vehicle)

halflings in Twinwirld

hallucination hallucinated by hallucination

halo: counterfactual, around personal identity; of each soul; of national souls

halves, left and right, in Twinwirld

hammerhead shark, location of

hands-in-water experiment

hangnails, reality of one’s own

hardness and roundness of Epi

Hard Problem, The; see also first-person

hardware vs. patterns

“hard-wiring”: of hemispheric links; hypothetically tweaked; of motor control as source of identity; of perceptual hardware as source of identity

Hastorf, Albert H.

“he”, as hyped pronoun for robot vehicle

heart: architecture of; evolution of; summarizable as “a pump”

Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The (McCullers)

heart-shaped bread and heart on collar, analogy between

heat-seeking missile

“heavenly body”, vagueness of the term

hedge maze of life

Heisenberg, Werner

heliocentrism vs. geocentrism

hemisphere, cerebral, as site of a half-self

hemoglobin molecules, number of in body

Henkin, Leon

heredity studied at abstract before physical level

“hereness”, mystery of, for SL #642; as posed by Derek Parfit and Daniel Dennett

Herman, Robert

herrings: blue; red; see also humpback

hierarchy: of forces in brain; of living creatures; of recursive functions defined by Gödel; of souledness

higher-level logic, appeal of, to brains

higher-level meaning: downward causality and;of Gödel’s formula; hiddenness of, for KG; of Imp; obviousness of, for brains; of PM strings, as read by Klüdgerot; of Prince Hyppia’s outburst

higher-level soul, created in marriage

high-level view: of brain activity; of careenium; of dog genetics; of domino chainium; eclipsing low-level view; of Gödel’s formula; indispensability of; of life in general; of pixel patterns on TV screen; of traffic jam; of video feedback

Hilbert, David

Hilbert program

“hive spirit”