I Am a Strange Loop

interiority: entering into another’s; of Frédéric Chopin; of Carol Hofstadter; of Robert Hofstadter; of knee; of mosquitoes; preserved, by critical mass of surviving shards; of robots; secondary instantiations of; of symbols for other people; of tomato; varying levels of importability of

internal model of someone else as “wrong kind of structure” to be an “I”

internalization of outer world in brains and in careenium

interpenetrating human souls: denied by ordinary language; extent of; image of; as result of many intimate conversations

interpenetrating national souls

interword spacing, exerting control over content

Introduction to Logic (Suppes)

intuition pumps

inventors not foreseeing consequences

inverted-spectrum riddle; as fairy tale; floral variation; political variation; sonic variation; sports variation; timidity of

invisibility of numbers in today’s computers

irrelevance of lower-level details

isomorphisms: as formal analogies; as mediating reference

“is white”, color of

“It ain’t the meat, it’s the motion” (Mann and Glover)

Italian translation of Bach aria words

Italy, unclear boundaries of country and of nation

iteration in complex plane

J

James, William

jealousy, as causal agent

Jefferson, Thomas

“Jetzt bin ich ein strahlendes Paar”

Jewish sense of humor as explanatory device

Jews during Diaspora

“jilted”, as essence of Nicole episode

Jim (friend’s father)

Joan of Arc

jogger, in thought experiment

jokes, as causes of laughter

Jones, Peter

joystick control of remote robot (or dog)

judo, exploiting adversary’s strength

Jupiter, approached by comet

“just too very Berry”

K

k (Gödel number of Gödel’s formula fragment)

Karen, see Greg

Kasparov, Garry

Kennedy, Robert

Kern, Jerome

KG or KH, see Gödel’s formula

killing of animals

Kim, Scott

King, Carole

King, Jeannel, poem by

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

kits, electronic

KJ, Himalayan peak, unscalability of

Klagsbrun, Francine

Klee, Paul

Klüdgerot, the

Klüdgerotic condition

knees: awareness level of; as candidates for consciousness; reflex behavior of

knobs of Twinwirld

knowing, elusive nature of

knurking and glebbing; not physical processes but subjective sensations; reliably evoked independently of brain’s wiring

koans

Kolak, Daniel

Krall, Diana

Kriegel, Uriah

Külot, Gerd, drama critic, review of Prince Hyppia: Math Dramatica by

L

lambs as edible beings

landmark integers

language: acquisition of; as unperceived code; without self-reference

“language”, vagueness of the term

lap loop; photo of

large-souled vs. small-souled beings

Latin

leaf piles: as endowed with Leafpilishness; intrinsic nature of; as macroscopic entities

Leafpilishness, Capitalized Essence of

leather, purchase of

leatherette dashboard

Leban, Roy and Bruce

leg that is asleep

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von

Le Lionnais, François

Leonardo di Pisa (Fibonacci)

letters of the alphabet, as meaningless

level-confusion, prevalence of, in discussions of brain/mind

level-crossing feedback loops

level-shifts, perceptual

levels of description: causality at different; oscillation between

Lexington (in “Pig”)

liar paradox

liberty and imprisonment as flipped sensations

life: defined; as illusion; in Universe Z

Life, John Conway’s Game of

“light on inside”; suddenly extinguished

linguistic sloppiness in reference to robots

Linus (“Peanuts”)

lions: compassion of; conscience of; possible vegetarianism of

liphosophy