I Am a Strange Loop

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Where to Draw that Fateful, Fatal Line?

Interiority — What Has it, and to What Degree?

The Gradual Growth of a Soul

Lights On?

Post Scriptum

CHAPTER 2 - This Teetering Bulb of Dread and Dream

What Is a “Brain Structure”?

A Simple Analogy between Heart and Brain

Can Toilet Paper Think?

The Terribly Thirsty Beer Can

Levels and Forces in the Brain

Who Shoves Whom Around Inside the Cranium?

Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Thinkodynamics and Statistical Mentalics

CHAPTER 3 - The Causal Potency of Patterns

The Prime Mover

The Causal Potency of Collective Phenomena

Neurons and Dominos

Patterns as Causes

The Strange Irrelevance of Lower Levels

A Hat-tip to the Spectrum of Unpredictability

The Careenium

Simmballism

Taking the Reductionistic View of the Careenium

Taking a Higher-level View of the Careenium

Who Shoves Whom Around inside the Careenium?

The Dance of the Simmballs

CHAPTER 4 - Loops, Goals, and Loopholes

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