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Index 490game of Life, 319-20, 385, 476game theory, 312Gandhi, Indira, 407Garden of Eden, 340"Garden of Forking Paths," 42, 482Gardner, Allen, 470Gardner, Beatrice, 470Gardner, Howard, 481Gardner, Martin, 476Garrett, Merrill, 14, 466gases, 145, 168, 170; atmospheric, 126; in soap bubbles, 125GAX, 259Gazzaniga, Michael, 481Geach, Peter, 467Gebhardt, 304gee!, 184general relativity, see relativity, theory ofgenes, 129, 472; bovine, 385; neural patterns coded for in, 386;passing on of, 144; selfish, 123-34; survival machines for,131-34, 137, 140, 141, 458geology, 35geometry, 298; non-Euclidean, 374German: identity-asserting sentences in, 408; understanding of,358 germ-line, 119"ghost-inside-the-machine," 6, 450ghosts, 5, 7; belief in, 66; novel writing as manufacture of, 387Gibson, James J., 467Gilbert, 351gliders, 320"glitches," 77global behavior, 385, 386Globus, G., 472gnosticism, 346goalism, 197goals: individual, 192; natural objects without, 120God, 30; as author, 464; consistency of, 315; creation ofuniverse five days ago by, 231; in dialogue with Mortal, 321-4!; and dice-playing, 45, 48; existence of, 311-16, 319, 320;false conception of, 330; immortal soul given by, 57; natureof, 330; as process and scheme, 333-34; universal wavefunction as brain of, 48; what is it like to be?, 406god: of fire, 344, 346, 348; spirit as, 120Gödel, Kurt, 277, 283Gödel sentences, 274, 276, 475Godelization, 306, 318Gödel’s Theorem, 58-59, 343, 414Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 338goldfish, 114Goodall, Jane von Lawick, 470goodness: of angels, 333; concept of, of personoids, 308;illumination of, 120; and reward, 329 "gooks," 114Gordon, G., 475Gospels, 128Gosper, Bill, 319, 320government: of microminiaturized society, 289 structure of, 342Graham, N., 468grammar, deficient. 102, 106grapefruit, thrown, 451gravity, 125, 196, 339Great Experience Feed, 207Great Pyramids, 382Gregg. Lee W., 473Gregory, R. L., 466, 475Griffin, Donald, 470grooves of records, 432Grunion. 121guided missiles, 135guillotined person, 406Guinea, 106Gunderson, Keith, 474Gunkel, Pat, 240Gustafson, D. F., 476haircuts, 6, 164hallucinations, 25, 225, 332, 346 ham radio, 76hamburgers, stories about, 354, 359Hamlet: Dennett's, 220, 226, 227, 232, 233, 235, 238, 351;Shakespeare's, 381, 462, 464 hand simulation of Al program,373-74, 459 happiness, 329Harding, D. E., 23-30, 31-33Harman, G., 468harmony, 155harpsichord, 153Hartree, 63Haugeland, John, 373, 376-78, 471, 475Haugeland's demon, 376-78he-symbol, 266head: electrons jumping around in, 292; firing of neurons in,210-1 l; having no, 23-30, 467headless monsters, 29hearing: of computers, 87; through sounds, 379heart, 360; beats of, 119; dream of, 346; evolution of, 132heaven, 120, 340Hechinger, Nancy, 412Hegelian world substance, 371Heisenberg, Werner, 38Heiser, J. F., 469helium, 125hell, 120Heller, Erich, 121Hemingway, Ernest, 256hemispheres of brain, 14hemoglobin, 125 Hendrix, Jimi, 255"hereafter" for personoids, 317"here-centered, now-centered" frame of refer ence, 410, 411hereditary units, 133heterosexuality, 250hierarchical conflicts of operation, 304high-level vs. low-level description. 178high-school students, 107higher-level beings, 166, 192higher-level laws, 174higher levels of structure, 320Hinayan Buddhists, 334hippies, 258Hofstadter, Douglas R., 69-95, 149-201, 265, 408, 430-57, 468,470, 472, 475holes: existence of. 6, 466; see also black holesholism, 159-62, 173, 182, 190, 196-97, 338, 472; vs.reductionism, 162; translatability of reductionism and, 196holismionism, 190 Holmes, Captain, 106 Homer, 444, 468homunculi. 13, 305, 342, 362-63, 458, 473Honderich, Ted, 476 Hope, Bob, 20Hopkins Beast, the, 471hormonal components of behavior, 36horses, 480houseflies, 10Howell, Robert, 476Hoyle, Fred, 137Hubert, 226-31