abstractions: as causes; centrality of: formidable tower of, in human minds
abstractly swirling patterns
accidents in mathematics: absence of; possibility of
accretion: of self-model; of soul
Ackermann’s function
active symbols,
affinity of souls,
afterglow of a soul
Aimable, the village baker
“alacrity, celerity, assiduity”, etc.
Alfbert, the; dream of
Alf and Bertie’s Posh Shop
algorithmic information theory
Ali, Muhammad
Alienware machine, emulated by Macintosh
Alighieri, Dante
alignment: of
allegoric license
“Alle Menschen Müssen Sterben” (Bach)
Alzheimer’s disease
ambiguity of operations inside computers
amino acids
amplification of input in audio feedback; saturation of
analogies: central role of, in this book; as fabric of human thought; having force proportional to precision and visibility; index entries for; jumping out automatically; made by bees; as mediating reference; research on; retrieved automatically by new events; rivalry between two similar ones; seen as simmball patterns in the careenium; self-referential; as source of meaning; tossed off effortlessly; trivial-seeming examples; by W. V. O. Quine
