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
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
Karen,
Kasparov, Garry
Kennedy, Robert
Kern, Jerome
KG or KH,
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
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
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
