Hofstadter, Dennett - The Mind's I

Index 499soul, 5, 25, 32; attribution of, 114; in book, 450; brain asphysical seat of, 220; collapse of two souls into one, 407; ofcow, 386; dualistic no tion of, 381; exhaustion of, 345;flamelike notion of, 408-9; and free will, 454; greater thanhum of its parts, 191; of hurricane, 75; immateriality of, 224;as incompressible core,385; interlevel feedback in creationof, 279, 281; and mind, 107; miracle drug to annihilate, 383,384, 386; nature of, 385; as neural dance, 453; of personoids,303, 306, 317, 318; of a prince, 465; and self-reproductivepower, 113; as sentience, 406; and spirit, 121; thinking asfunction of, 57; transmigration of, 5; true seat of, 233soul-breaking, 386soul-killing, 114soul meter, 107soul searching, 4, 47soulism, 197sound, 438; of words, 456; as wave phenomenon, 141, 399sow. offspring crushed to death by, 110space: curved, 458; different size-scales in, 197; discrete, 319;locality in, 319, 385; minusculecapering of electrons in, 291;movement of object through, 282; nature of, 298spacecraft, 125space-time continuum, 327spatial proximity, 449specialization, 169, 171species-specific viewpoint, 398, 399speech center, neutral activity of, 101speech impairment of ant colony, 163-64speech neurons, 442speech organs, 438SPEECHIAC, 351speed of operations, 376spelling, 266Sperry, R. W., 472spiders, 9Spinoza, Baruch, 19spiral galaxies, 122, 145spirit, 4, 119-22split-brain research, 14-15, 481split characters, 47 split self, 47Spoilar, 209-12spontaneity, 120 sportscasters, 31squid, 121squiggles and squoggles, 359-60; of Chinese, 378; meaningless,378SRI International, 21stability, 125-26Sta-Hi, 257starquakes, 77stars, 125states, 178, 193; superpositions of, 193; see also brain states;mental statesstatistics, 168; regularity of, 166steam shovels, 86steel hammer, 112Steiner, George, 414, 477stimulus, 114stomachs, information processing by, 360, 371Stonehenge, 382stories, capacity to understand, 254-60, 363, 369, 370, 373storytelling and science, 460"strange loops," 475stratification, 195, 199Stratton, G. M.. 475Strawson, Peter, 249Stretto of fugue, 164-65strong A1, 353, 361, 366structural integrity, 449-50structure-altering numbers, 437 sstuff, 375; mental and physical, 387style, individual, 385subatomic collisions, 291subconscious, 156, 158; biases of, 84; and creativity, 283subject, 406; duality of object and, 25; fluctuationbetween object and, 33subjectivity, 43, 478; of experience, 392-93, 39596, 402-3, 409-14; imputed to animals, 134;and quantum physics, 46; oftime experience, 302sublimation, 282subliminal appeals, 113subminds, 14subpersonal information processing system,233, 237subpersons, 342subsystems of brain, 13, 14; active, 176; free will of, 341-42; ofGod, 48; rival, 201; semiautonomous, 200; understanding in,359Subtillion, 96, 98Suci, G. J., 480suffering, 328, 462; creation of, 291, 292, 294; end to, byannihilation of soul, 384; evil as, 333; sinning as cause of,336sugar, 372suicide, 90, 383sums of parts, 144-45, 187, 432Sun, 120, 458; setting, 47;stability of atoms in, 125sunlight, 126super-ego, 12Superman, 388superposition of states, 43-44, 46, 47, 193Supersonic Tunneling Underground Device (STUD), 217, 226surprises, 155survival: of fittest, 124; of stable, 124survival machines, 122, 131-34, 137, 140, 141, 458swans, 340Swanson, J. W., 478swirling, style of, 79Swiss cheese, 381syllogisms, 30-31symbolic imagination, 400symbolic logic, s424symbols, 176-84, 192, 193, 200, 281; active, 265; manipulationof, 76, 107, 180, 355-56, 359,361-65, 368, 370, 372, 373,377; modification of, 412; musical, 433; nonreflexive, 200; innumber theory, 187-88; programming of neurons by, 282; vs.signals, 177-78; triggering patterns of, 177-81, 380, 413; thatunderstand themselves, 458symmetry: external, of body, 404; of "to be," 407-8sympathetic imagination, 400sympathy, 106symphony, existence of, 6symptoms of consciousness, 10synapses, 35, 377, 378; coding of high-level goals into, 385;sequence of, 367; simulated, 363, 364; systematic changes instructures of, 282synchronization, condition of, 207-10synergy, 89synonyms, 114syntax, 106, 375, 406; of beliefs, 369; of computers, 368, 370;of personoids, 302; simple minded, 108systems creation, 298