Hofstadter, Dennett - The Mind's I

Index 496physical symbol system, 365physicalism, 393, 400-4physics, 195, 199, 301; antimatter postulated in, 388: atomic.36; building blocks of, 6; on consciousness, 304;epistemological problems in, 414: integration of biology andpsychology with, 39; laws of, 66, 142, 144, 319; materialismin, 34; mirror puzzle in, 404; on nature of space, 298;observer systems in, 44-45; twodimensional, 319physiology, 35, 212; and behavior, 36; and origin of thought, 41pi, 7, 151; value of, 65Picasso, Pablo, 59, 406pigeons, 273, 393pigs, 114piranhas, 114planets: chemical raw materials present on, 126;distant, voyages to, 142plants as survival machines, 133Plastic Big Hawley, 236-39plastic surgery, 225plate tectonics, 77Plato, 466plausibility, 106playing records, see records playthings, 103pocket calculators, 84poetic license, 268poetry, 319point of view, 9, 13, 24, 25, 278, 434; of ants, 173; changing,174; in dreams, 350; toward God, 335; levels of, 179;location of 221-24, 237; me-ness attached to, 48; and personetics, 301; of programmers, 355; of robot, 268; assentience, 406; shifts in, 196; and subjective character ofexperience, 393, 396-99, 402, 409, 411, 413; switching, 343;and thought experiments, 376, 381; uninhabited or vacated,268poison, 105polar hears, 139polygon, philosophical, 309pond-hole experience, 203, 204Popper, Karl, 477positive-negative replication, 128potato chips, 342Potter, Beatrix, 268power: and knowledge, 313; of the "Word," 274; see also causalpowersprecognition, 66, 68preconscious concepts, 267 predictionism, 197predictions: genetic, 139: through simulation, 139preludes, 154, 190; relationship between fugues and, 154-55Premack, David, 470pressure, 168Pribram, Karl, 472primal grammar, 107primal intuition, 335primal loop, 283primates: autobiographers, 460; difference from other animalsof, 41: intentionality ascribed to, 365; language of, 106, 107;see also specific speciesprime factors, 195prime numbers, 387primeval soup, 127-30, 133primitives, talking to trees by, 335primordial cause, 195Prince of Wales. 387principles, soul as gulf between particles and, 385prism-shaped glasses, 412privacy of experience, 396"private 1," 281privacy of mind. 7-9probability, 127; in quantum mechanics, 43probability distribution, 38problem solving, 9, 361process: God as, 333-34; person as, 444, 446products that think, 70programmer, role of, 136-37programming: of Analytical Engine, 64; of computer by itself,63programs: Al, see artificial intelligence and specificprograms; of domino-chain network, 195; emulation by, 412;feelingless, 84; mind as, 243;operating in parallel, 363;person as, 97; inpersonetics, 299. 300, 307; point of view of,410, 411; read out of brains, 252; redesigners of computers,252; representational, 193;rigid, extinction of, 200; selfmodelabsent in, 82; self-monitoring abilities of, 282; selfunderstanding abilities of, 282; trust of protoplasm in, 112;Turing tests of, 90; see also simulationproject, 120projection, 114, 115, 374, 413; language as medium of, 413-14;see also mappingpronoun' he," 443proofs, 94-95; of existence of God, 315; of theorems, 151, 153properties: emergent, 145; on other levels, 84; of wholes vs.parts, 144propositional content, 362Prospero, 464prosthetic vision, 231, 411, 475proteins, 35, 88, 125; synthesis of, 139proto-carnivores, 131protoplasm, 112Proust, Marcel, 69psyche, 305; influence of sensory deprivation on,306; scientificobservation of, 42 psychiatrists: atheism of, 330; fooled bycomputer, 91, 469psychic distancing, 221psychics, 195psychoanalysts, 480psychokinesis,66psycholinguistics, 14, 273psychology, 34; AI as branch of, 361; extrasensory perceptiondisputed by, 67; integration of biology and physics with, 39;introspective,369; life as experiment in, 32; philosophical,399; physiological, 35psechonics, 297psvchophagi, 308 psychopathology,12psvchophvsical theory, 391, 398, 401Pucceti, Roland, 478pulsars, 77punishment: eternal, 383; for sins, 322, 324purines, 127purpose, 120"purpose machine," 135purposeful behavior, 172-74purposiveness, 122, 191, 386purring machine, 111, 112Putnam, Hilary, 231n, 474-75, 478Pvlshyn, Zenon. 360. 374pyrimidines, 127quantum electrodynamics, 145quantum field theory, 145quantum mechanics, 36-39, 41, 42, 48, 49, 167;many worldsinterpretation of, 46. 458: of oxygen atom, 145