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Table of Contents
Praise
Title Page
Dedication
A note from the Publisher
WORDS OF THANKS
PREFACE
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER 1 - On Souls and Their Sizes
Soul-Shards
What Is It Like to Be a Tomato?
Guinea Pig
Pig
Revulsion, Revelation, Revolution
Reversion, Re-evolution
The Mystery of Inanimate Flesh
Give Me Some Men Who Are Stouter-souled Men
Small-souled and Large-souled Humans
Hattie the Chocolate Labrador
Ollie the Golden Retriever
Where to Draw that Fateful, Fatal Line?
Interiority What Has it, and to What Degree?
The Gradual Growth of a Soul
Lights On?
Post Scriptum
CHAPTER 2 - This Teetering Bulb of Dread and Dream
What Is a Brain Structure?
A Simple Analogy between Heart and Brain
Can Toilet Paper Think?
The Terribly Thirsty Beer Can
Levels and Forces in the Brain
Who Shoves Whom Around Inside the Cranium?
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
Thinkodynamics and Statistical Mentalics
CHAPTER 3 - The Causal Potency of Patterns
The Prime Mover
The Causal Potency of Collective Phenomena
Neurons and Dominos
Patterns as Causes
The Strange Irrelevance of Lower Levels
A Hat-tip to the Spectrum of Unpredictability
The Careenium
Simmballism
Taking the Reductionistic View of the Careenium
Taking a Higher-level View of the Careenium
Who Shoves Whom Around inside the Careenium?
The Dance of the Simmballs
CHAPTER 4 - Loops, Goals, and Loopholes
The First Flushes of Desire
A Soccer Ball Named Desire
The Slippery Slope of Teleology
Feedback Loops and Exponential Growth
Fallacy the First
Fallacy the Second
Feedback and Its Bad Rap
God, Gdel, Umlauts, and Mystery
Savoring Circularity and Self-application
The Timid Theory of Types
Intellectuals Who Dread Feedback Loops
CHAPTER 5 - On Video Feedback
Two Video Voyages, Three Decades Apart
Diary of a Video Trip
Enigmatic, Emergent Reverberation
Feeding Content to the Loop
A Mathematical Analogue
The Phenomenon of Locking-in
Emergent New Realities of Video Feedback
CHAPTER 6 - Of Selves and Symbols
Perceptual Looping as the Germ of I-ness
Varieties of Looping
Reception versus Perception
Mosquito Symbols
Mosquito Selves
An Interlude on Robot Vehicles
Pondering Dogthink
The Radically Different Conceptual Repertoire of Human Beings
Episodic Memory
CHAPTER 7 - The Epi Phenomenon
As Real as it Gets
Concrete Walls and Abstract Ceilings
The Many-faceted Intellectual Grounding of Reality
No Luck, No Soap, No Dice
An Out-of-the-Blue Ode to My Old Friend Epi
No Sphere, No Radius, No Mass
Where the Buck Seems to Stop
The Prime Mover, Redux
Gods Eye versus the Careeniums Eye
I Am Not God
CHAPTER 8 - Embarking on a Strange-Loop Safari
Flap Loop, Lap Loop
Seeking Strange Loopiness in Escher
Seeking Strange Loops in Feedback
Seeking Strange Loops in the Russellian Gloom
Mr Berry of the Bodleian
I Cant Tell You How Indescribably Nondescript It Was!
Blurriness Buries Berry
A Peanut-butter and Barberry Sandwich
An Autobiographical Snippet
Idealistic Dreams about Metamathematics
Post Scriptum
CHAPTER 9 - Pattern and Provability
Principia Mathematica and its Theorems
Mixing Two Unlikely Ideas: Primes and Squares
Pattern-hunting
People who Pursue Patterns with Perseverance
Where Theres Pattern, Theres Reason
Sailing the Ocean of Primes and Falling off the Edge
The Mathematicians Credo
No Such Thing as an Infinite Coincidence
The Long Search for Proofs, and for their Nature
CHAPTER 10 - Gdels Quintessential Strange Loop
Gdel Encounters Fibonacci
The Caspian Gemstones: An Allegory
A Tiny Spark in Gdels Brain
Clever Rules Imbue Inert Symbols with Meaning
Mechanizing the Mathematicians Credo
Miraculous Lockstep Synchrony
Flipping between Formulas and Very Big Integers
Very Big Integers Moving in Lock-step with Formulas
Glimmerings of How PM Can Twist Around and See Itself
Prim Numbers
The Uncanny Power of Prim Numbers
Gdelian Strangeness
How to Stick a Formulas Gdel Number inside the Formula
Gdels Elephant-in-Matchbox Trick via Quines Analogy
The Trickiest Step
An Elephant in a Matchbox is Neither Fish Nor Fowl
Sluggo and the Morton Salt Girl
CHAPTER 11 - How Analogy Makes Meaning
The Double Aboutness of Formulas in PM
Extra Meanings Come for Free, Thanks to You, Analogy!
Exploiting the Analogies in Everyday Situations
The Latent Ambiguity of the Village Bakers Remarks
Chantal and the Piggybacked Levels of Meaning
Pickets at the Posh Shop
Prince Hyppia: Math Dramatica
Analogy, Once Again, Does its Cagey Thing
How Can an Unpennable Line be Penned?
Not is Not the Source of Strangeness
Numbers as a Representational Medium
CHAPTER 12 - On Downward Causality
Bertrand Russells Worst Nightmare
A Strange Land where Because Coincides with Although
Incompleteness Derives from Strength
Bertrand Russells Second-worst Nightmare
An Endless Succession of Monsters
Consistency Condemns a Towering Peak to Unscalability
Downward Causality in Mathematics
Gru and the Futile Quest for a Truth Machine
The Upside-down Perceptions of Evolved Creatures
Stuck, for Better or Worse, with I
Proceeding Slowly Towards the Bottom Level
Of Hogs, Dogs, and Bogs
CHAPTER 13 - The Elusive Apple of My I
The Patterns that Constitute Experience
Reflected Communist Bachelors with Spin 1/2 are All Wet
Am I a Strange Marble?
A Pearl Necklace I Am Not
I Am My Brains Most Complex Symbol
Internalizing Our Weres, Our Wills, and Our Woulds
I Cannot Live without My Self
The Slow Buildup of a Self
Making Tosses, Internalizing Bounces
Smiling Like Hopalong Cassidy
The Lies in our Is
The Locking-in of the I Loop
I Am Not a Video Feedback Loop
I Am Ineradicably Entrenched
But Am I Real?
The Size of the Strange Loop that Constitutes a Self
The Supposed Selves of Robot Vehicles
A Counterfactual Stanley
CHAPTER 14 - Strangeness in the I of the Beholder
The Inert Sponges inside our Heads
Squirting Chemicals
The Stately Dance of the Symbols
In which the Alfbert Visits Austranius
Brief Debriefing
Soaps in Sanskrit
Winding Up the Debriefing
Trapped at the High Level
First Key Ingredient of Strangeness
Second Key Ingredient of Strangeness
Sperry Redux
CHAPTER 15 - Entwinement
Multiple Strange Loops in One Brain
Content-free Feedback Loops
Baby Feedback Loops and Baby I s
Entwined Feedback Loops
One Privileged Loop inside our Skull
Shared Perception, Shared Control
A Twirlwind Trip to Twinwirld
Is One or Two Letters of the Alphabet?
Pairsonal Identity in Twinwirld
Twe-tweaking by Twinwirld-twiddling
Post Scriptum re Twinwirld
Soulmates and Matesouls
Children as Gluons
CHAPTER 16 - Grappling with the Deepest Mystery
A Random Event Changes Everything
Desperate Lark
Post Scriptum
CHAPTER 17 - How We Live in Each Other
Universal Machines
The Unexpectedness of Universality
Universal Beings
Being Visited
Chemistry and Its Lack
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