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Index 498scribes, 128Scriptures, 383, 462sculpted forms, grooves of records as, 433sea: acoustics of, 138; of possibilities, 42Searle, John R., 93, 94, 268, 352, 353-82, 384, 387, 407, 477Searle's demon, 376, 378, 380seaslugs, 10seeing, 6, 30; two distinct types of, 32self, 5, 466, 467; belief in, 7; as by-product of organism, 167;continuity of, 410; and control, 268, 453; inhabiting body,24; interlevel feedback in creation of, 279; and mirror-image,28; and otherness, 32; process of creation of, 352; riddles of,458; as sentience, 406; thinking about, 20-22, 467self-awareness, 182, 447self-consciousness, 11, 182, 266-67, 340; capacity of machinesfor, 61, 63; in chimpanzees, 471; self-regarding behaviorwithout, 266; of spirit, 122self-contradictory belief system, 277self-deception, 29self-defense, 12self-destructive tendencies, 305 self-engulfing television system, 279, 281selfhood, 266self-image: introspective, 41; pattern of, on TVscreen, 281; ofsoul-free objects, 386selfishness, 4, 142, 228self-model, 82, 83self-organizing processes, 291; of mind, 294self-perception, 29, 199self-portrait, 86self-preservation, 131self-recognition, 19, 28self-reference, 92, 181, 475; indirect, 184; looplike, 279;parameters of, 281self-referential paradoxes, 275-79, 475self-reflecting mirrors, 304self-regard, 266, 268self-reliance of computers, 87self-replicating systems, 41self-representation, 21self-reproductive power, 113self symbol, 200, 264-67, 413selves, multiple, 12semantic differentials, 480semantic level of processing, 15semantic potential, 196semantics, 375, 406; computers' lack of, 368, 370semiautonomous subsystems, 200Seng-Ts'an, 339senility, 107, 248, 409sensations, 8, 26, 122senses: God as, 330; human, 394; see also hearing; perception;visionsensory deprivation, 306sensory input messages, 167sensory modalities, 11, equivalence of, 411, 433sentences: comprehension of, 14; constructed bypersonoids,302; identity-asserting, 408sentience, creation of, 297Septuagint, 128sequence of neural firing, 363servo-control, 111, 141Seuss, Dr., 78sex, true nature of, 114sex-change operations, 225sex-role differences, 72sexual reproduction, 132; and personetics, 309sexuality, 250shadows: confusion of reality and, 77; formal. 367Shakespeare, William, 382, 462, 464"Shakey," 21-22"she loves me, she loves me not," 47Shoemaker, Sydney, 474short-term memory, 410shortwave radio, 76SHRDLU, 317, 354, 475Siamese twins, 406Sigma-5 computer, 380, 412signals, 171-72, 176, 177, 180, 199; purposefulness of, 174signs, linguistic, 107Simon, Herbert, 358, 471, 472, 477simplicity, 124simulated worlds, 317-18, 476; see also personeticssimulation, 87, 94, 139-42, 145; of ability to use language, 294;of bat experience, 414; of chemical conditions of Earthbefore life, 126-27; of cognitive capacities, 353 (see alsoartificial intelligence); of complex behavior, 73; confusionofreality and, 73; of cow, 94, 372; of death, 308; duplicationdistinguished from, 369-71: emulation distinguished from,380, 477; of hurricane, 73-78; of interacting molecules, 145;oflactation or photosynthesis, 372; of Middle Ages, 97; ofparanoid, 91; of primordial light ning, 126; of sadness, 83; ofsensory perception, 234; of thought, 73; time needed to run,318, 459; of a world, 476sinning, 321-25, 327-29, 336, 339, 341641 (prime number), 194, 387size of simulation, 376skepticism, 27-28; about artificial intelligence, 69; aboutFermat's Last Theorem, 150-51 skill, 246skintact, 233-34slaughter, random, 115slaughterhouses, 114sleep, 9slipperiness, biological, 89Slobodkin, Lawrence B., 41Sloman, Aaron, 201, 473Slote, Michael, 476 slugs, 121small-souled men, 107 Smart, J. J. C., 478"smart bullets," 90Smullyan, Raymond, 92, 265, 321-40, 340-43, 383-84, 384-88,415-26, 427-29, 467, 479Smythies, J. R., 473soap bubbles, 125Sober, Elliott, 472 social behavior, 34social processes, large-scale, 302socialization, 302 sociobiology, 37, 40sociodynamics, 303sociology, 140Socrates, 31, 144 SSocratic method, 326sodium channels, 193-94sodium ions, 125software, 80, 89; mind as. 243; preservation of, 261; replicatorsof, 145; see also programs software universe, see personeticssolar energy, 260, 262solar system, 126; clockwork, 122solids, 145solipsism, 60, 61, 83, 400, 456; on human condition, 30-32sonar, 141; of bats. 393, 395, 402; of blind people, 397song, mentality like a, 95; simulated, 97, 99"Sonic Oven," 275sonnet-writing machine, 60