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• 15:43, 15 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Loops, Goals, and Loopholes (content before blanking was: "* Mechanical systems with feedback such as James Watt’s steam-engine governor. * The presence of a feedback loop is a strong pressure to shift levels of description from the goalless level of mechanics (in which forces make things move) to the goal-oriented level of cybernetics (in which desires make things move). * The suspicion of loops just runs in our human grain. * From Russel’s theory of types and elsewhere, we see that people can be irrationally aller...")
• 15:42, 15 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page How We Live in Each Other (content was: "* The inner circuitry of cell phones has surpassed a certain threshold of complexity and that fact allows them to have a chameleon-like nature. I'll call it the Godel-Turing threshold, and once it is surpassed, a computer can emulate any kind of machine. * Turing realized that the critical threshold for this kind of computational universality comes at exactly that point where a machine is...", and the only contributor was "Rob" (talk))
• 15:42, 15 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page How Analogy Makes Meaning (content was: "* We effortlessly generalize outwards. * It is out of a dense fabric of a myriad of invisible, throwaway analogies that the vast majority of our rich mental life is built. * What seem like the most mundane analogies can, when they are examined, be seen to have sprung from, and to reveal, the deepest roots of human cognition. * An isomorphism is just a formalized and strict analogy. * What we might be tempted to call « direct » reference is mediated by a code too - the code...")
• 15:42, 15 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Grappling with the Deepest Mystery (content was: "* The name Carol denotes for me , far more than just a body, which is now gone, but rather a very vast pattern, a style, a set of things including memories, hopes, dreams, beliefs, loves, reactions to music, sense of humor, self-doubt, generostiry, compassion, and so on… a pattern imbued with fantastic triggering power. * A person is a point of view - not only a physical point of view (...", and the only contributor was "Rob" (talk))
• 15:42, 15 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Godel’s Quintessential Strange Loop (content was: "* Mathematicians see their pristine, abstract world as the antithesis to the random, accident-filled physical world we all inhabit. * In mathematics, where there’s a pattern, there’s a reason. * What a recursive definition does, albeit implicitly, is to divide the entire set of integers into members and non-members of the club. * Godel’s formula is making a claim about itself. (Chapter 11 of "I am a Strange Loop" by Douglas Hofstadter)")
• 15:42, 15 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Embarking on a Strange-Loop Safari (content before blanking was: "* A strange loop is a paradoxical level-crossing feedback loop. (Chapter 9 of "I am a Strange Loop" by Douglas Hofstadter)")
• 15:41, 15 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Consciousness = Thinking (content was: "* Consciousness is the dance of symbols inside the cranium. Or, to make it even more pithy, consciousness is thinking. * Most of the time, any given symbol in our brain in dormant, like a book sitting inertly in the remote stacks of a huge library. Every so often, some event will trigger the retrieval of this book from the stacks, and it will be opened and its pages will come alive for some reader. In an analogous way, inside a human brain, perceived external events are continu...")
• 15:41, 15 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page An Affable Locking of Horns (content was: "Plato: Some Thoughts I think about consciously before uttering Socrates: In what sense do you think consciously about them? P: I don’t know. I suppose that I try to find the correct words to describe them. S: What guides you to the correct words? P: Why, I search logically for synonyms, similar words, and so on, with which I am familiar. S: In other words, habit guides your thought...", and the only contributor was "Rob" (talk))
• 15:41, 15 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page A Tango with Zombies and Dualism (content was: "* Category assignments go right to the core of thinking. * Consciousness is not an optional feature that one can order independently of how the brain is built. Consciousness is nothing but the upper end of a spectrum of self-perception levels that brains automatically possess as a result of their design. It is an inevitable emergent consequence of the fact that the system has a sufficient...", and the only contributor was "Rob" (talk))
• 15:41, 15 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page A Courteous Crossing of Words (content was: "* What we know as our consciousness is nothing but the physical activity inside a human brain that has lived in the world for a number of years. * Some kinds of physical systems can mirror what’s on their outside and can launch actions that depend upon their perceptions. * To make an I you need meanings, and to make meanings you need perception and categories - a repertoire of categorie...", and the only contributor was "Rob" (talk))
• 15:40, 15 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page A Brief Brush with Cartesian Egos (content was: "* Something of Jim is surviving strongly - surviving in other brains, thanks to human love. * All of these things survive at different levels in many people who, thanks to having interacted with him intimately over many years of decades, constitute his "soular corona". * His soul will still exist, in partial, low-resolution copies, scattered about the globe.", and the only contributor was "Rob" (talk))
• 15:40, 15 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs undeleted page Main Page (34 revisions)
• 15:39, 15 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Main Page (content was: "My main focus is on consciousness, with a particular focus on the work of Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter, along with: * project * science * philosophy of mind - a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of the mind and its relation to the body and the external world. * psychology - the study of mind and behavior including the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both conscious and unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoug...")
• 15:39, 15 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Entwinement (Duplicate)
• 15:39, 15 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Strangeness in the I of the Beholder (Duplicate)
• 15:38, 15 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page The Elusive Apple of My I (duplicate)