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Index 500systems theory, 358-62, 374, 377Szechuan food, 428tactile perception, 234talking to God, 330-31Tammer, 304Tannenbaum, Andrew, 380, 477Tannenbaum, P. H., 480Taoism, 82, 330, 333, 338, 341, 467 tapes, mind, 243-9, 252Tapscott, B. L., 476target-tracking computers, 90taste, 427-28"team" of ants, 168, 171technology, 3, 207; and artificial intelligence, 366-67; ofinformation processing, 299; runaway, 275; survivalmachine,132; telepresence,240; for transferring informationbetween different brains, 252teddy bears, 114Teleclone Mark V teleporter, 7Teleclone Mark IV teleporter, 3-4, 7telekinesis, 68teleology, 83, 120, 122, 172, 174, 196, 197telepathy, 66-67, 307telephones, 361-62;time service, 378teleporter, 3-4, 7telepresence, 240, 475television, 193, 212-13, 447-48; closed-circuit, 20; interlevelfeedback on, 279, 281; seeing oneself on, 266; in simulationof vision, 411temperature, 168template, replicator as, 127, 128tempo, 155Terrace, Herbert, 470terrorism, 192, 386Terry, 242, 243, 245, 246, 248tesseract, 298TEX, 259-61Thatcher, R. W., 466Thaumaturge, 96, 99theodicy, 309, 311, 312, 314, 316theogony, 300, 314; experimental, 296theology. 312; liberation of science from, 42; objection tothinking machines in, 57-58thermodynamics, 39, 308thermostats, 358, 371; beliefs of, 361Thigpen, Corbett H., 479thing: "it is like something to be," 13, 478; as stable collectionof atoms, 124; see also BATsthinking, 4, 6; about one's self, 20-22, 467; by dogs, 32;impossibility of stopping, 25; and feeling, 81; emotions asautomatic side effects of, 81; by machines, 53-67, 70. 84,368, 372 (see also artificial intelligence); and organization ofentity, 80; in second language, 379, 477; as sentience,406;test for, 80third-person perspective, 20, 30Thomas, Dylan, 115Thomas, St., 57, 336Thoreau, Henry David, 203thornbush, 125Thornton, M. T., 478thought, 35, 39; appearance and character of, 42; awareness of,181; capacity for, 21; imitation of, 305; influence on electronof, 195; language of, 274; and machines, 60, 110;mechanisms of, 196; and neural flash, 452; origin of, 41; aspattern. 78; personoid, 302; and point of view, 221; asprimary. 39; production of, 13; simulation of, 73, 77; andspirit, 120thought experiments, 8, 375, 458, 459, 479thread, thickening at end of, 119thresholds, 167, 171, 435-36thrills, 155thrown grapefruit, 451thunder, 126time, 38, 42; dimension of, 297, 310; discrete, 319; beforeevolution, 124; locality in, 319, 385; manipulation of, 316,318; movement of object through, 282; and prediction, 197;subjectivity of experience of, 302time scales: relativity of, 145; varying, 174, 441, 446time-varying intelligence, 409 Tin Woodman, 237"tinklers," 198title of this book, 408toilet paper and small stones, computer constructed of, 369top-down control, 342topology, 207-9, 274Tortoise, 149-91, 195; in Jardin du Luxembourg, 430-57Tortoise's song, 452total self-knowledge, 454toxicological assays, 271*toy worlds," 476transfinite numbers, 396transitive verb, 408translations, 99; perversion of meaning in, 128transmigration of souls, 5transparency of mind to itself, I Itrees: talking to, 335, 339; see also forest triangles, equilateral,336triggering patterns of symbols, 177-81, 380,413tropism, 121true love, 404Trurl, 287-94truth, 331; of expressible propositions, 396; of mental states,358nTSR cones, 411-12Ts'ui P6n, 42tuning, 247-48Turing, Alan M., 53-67, 67-71, 377, 379, 469 70Turing machine, 274, 276, 354Turing test, 69-95, 107, 115, 306, 360, 371, 373, 375, 376, 378,409, 469Tweedledee, 349Tweedledum, 349-50"Twin Earth" thought experiment, 231, 474-5two-dimensional physics, 319typewriters, 371; nonfunctioning, 144tyrants, 339Ullman, Shimon, 467ultimate perfection, 333ultraviolet light, 126, 127unconscious concepts, 267unconscious processes, 9. 12-15; and neural firing patterns, 386;in scientific induction, 61;sublimation of conscious activityinto, 282unconscious purposive behavior, 135understanding, 400; of jokes, 80; of language, 405; nature of,353-63, 368-70, 374, 377, 378, 381uninterpreted formal symbols, 355-56unitary feeling of self, 48universal machines, 56universal wave function, 46, 48; collapse of, 48universe, 287, 34 1; arcana of, 347;author of, 462, 463;beginning of, 124, 125; boundryless, 343; chaotic. 343:creation of new. 327: cybernetic.