Schweitzer, Albert; Bach and; guns and; Günsbach and; as musician; rare compassion of; reverential style of, as Bach organist; on sacred
science-fiction thought experiments; as liberating
scientific viewpoint as correct but too complex
Scriabin, Alexander
Searle, John
second meaning lurking in first meaning
secondary meaning of KG,
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-awareness, limited: of children; of dogs; of robot vehicles
self-confidence
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
self-referential sentences; failed attempts at constructing; in
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.
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
Siksek, Samir
simballic “logic”
simmballs (in careenium); imbued with meaning
simms (“small interacting magnetic marbles”); as blurry soup
simms
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
slingshots
slippery slope of teleological language
slow
Sluggo, daydreaming about himself
smallest uninteresting integer
“small-souled men”
small-souled
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)
