I Am a Strange Loop

Schweitzer, Albert; Bach and; guns and; Günsbach and; as musician; rare compassion of; reverential style of, as Bach organist; on sacred vs. profane

science-fiction thought experiments; as liberating

Scientific American

scientific viewpoint as correct but too complex

Scriabin, Alexander

Searle, John

second meaning lurking in first meaning

secondary meaning of KG, see higher-level meaning

secondary swirl, as diluted “I” in another’s brain

seeds, in recursive definitions

seeing out from another’s viewpoint

seeing straight through pixels to events

self: inner layers of; middle layers of; outer layers of; reality of; as union of two half-selves

self-affirming formula

Self-Analysis (Horney)

self-awareness, limited: of children; of dogs; of robot vehicles

self-confidence vs. self-doubt

self-delusion as part of self-symbol

self-destruction of audio feedback system

self-inventorying sentences

selflessness; and soul-full-ness

self-perception; of dogs; of humans; of mosquitoes; naturalness of; of robot vehicles

self-reference: banishment of; as cause for PM ’s incompleteness; centrality of, in life; essential; as innocuous; of Principia Mathematica; via reference to clone; seemingly direct but actually indirect; as spelled out by Gödel; without indexicality; without infinite regress

self-referential sentences; failed attempts at constructing; in Principia Mathematica; without indexicals

self-reproduction, Gödelian mechanisms of

self-stabilizing structures

self-symbol: accreting over time; of careenium; coarse-grained copies of, in others; of dog; initial emptiness of; locking-in of; seen as strange loop, reasons for; self-delusions in

self-undermining words and phrases

Sellers, Peter

“semantic juice”, as underwriting meaning and “aboutness”

semantics: and machinery; possession of, as criterial for consciousness; quibbling over as serious; transplantable to other brains

semiclassical view: of quantum phenomena; of self and soul

sense of humor as brain structure

sensual experiences, as basis for consciousness

sentences that inventory each other

serial numbers, as determining human identity

Seuss, Dr.

Seven Year Itch, The

1729, as interesting number

72900 (code number for “0=0”)

777,777, short descriptions of

sewing machines, as indistinguishable zombies

sex of child, determined by microscopic factors

sexist language and sexist thinking; exemplified

sexuality: as bedrock cause for humans; in Twinwirld

shades of gray: of consciousness; for mentalistic verbs; for perception; in personality space; for quotation marks; for reality; for souledness; for where one is

Shahn, Ben

Shakespeare, William

shared goals leading to shared identity

shared yearnings

Shell sign, reality of top side of

shopping cart, reliability of

shorthands, as necessary for survival

Shostakovich, Dmitri

shout into chasm

Shultz, Charles

Siamese Twinwirld

signals, as triggering symbols

signature done via hard-wired motor control vs. via linguistic instructions

Siksek, Samir

simballic “logic”

simmballs (in careenium); imbued with meaning

simms (“small interacting magnetic marbles”); as blurry soup

simms vs. simmballs

simplification as human glory

simultaneous presence in multiple places

sincere belief as experienced by a zombie

singing in unison

singletons and pairs in sequence of primes

62, as boring integer

641, primality of, as cause; role of, in history of mathematics

skeptics, voice of

skiing: unpredictability of; vacation in California

Skinnner, B. F., on self-referential sentences

skivaganzas

slaughterhouse, tour of

slavery

sleazeball, as familiar but blurry pattern

slider on wire determining identity

sliding scale: of consciousness; of élan mental; of symbol repertoire

slingshots

slippery slope of teleological language

slow vs. fast: controlling of bodies by brains; feeding of brains by perceptual systems;

Sluggo, daydreaming about himself

smallest uninteresting integer

“small-souled men”

small-souled vs. large-souled beings

smiling like Hopalong Cassidy

snippets of other people’s talk and inner worlds

“snow”, elusiveness of concept

“s0 + s0 = ss0”

“soap digest rack” explained in Sanskrit

“soap opera”: causality attached to the concept of; as deeply nested concept; as very real pattern

soaring up to into the sky

soaring up to into this guy

soccer ball, as goal-seeker

social hierarchies, position in, in self-symbol

Socrates, as dialogue character

software beings inside us

soil of novels and of souls

Solar System, vagueness of the notion

solid-state physics

Sommerfeld, Arnold

“Song of Myself ” (Whitman)

Sophie’s Choice