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Meredith. Marsha. 625

Mergenthaler. Otto. 630

message-passing languages. 662~3

messages. 154. 158-76; in ant colonies. 350; in

bottles. 167~9. 524; layers of. 166-71. 524.

703-4; from nature. 408-9; see also frame mes-

sage. inner message. outer message

messenger. for wans. 235-36. 238

messenger RNA. see mRNA

meta. 216-17. 224

meta-agnosticism. 114

meta-analogy. 673-74

meta-answer-schema. 463

meta-author. 607-9. 726

metabook. 22

meta-descriptions. 656-57. 674

meta-evidence. etc.. 693-94

Meta-Genie. see Genie

meta-hiccups. 726

meta-intuition. 605

META-JOSHO. etc .• 443

metaknowledge. 364

metalanguage. 22. 184. 194. 248. 270. 514

metalogic. 23. 676

metamathematics. 23. 579; reflected inside TNT.

449--50

Metamorphosis (Escher). 14-15

metaphase.~7

metaphor. 672

meta-proteins. 533-34

metarules. etc.: in chess. 687-88; in inteUigence.

26-27. 559. 684-85

meta-search. 397

meta-symbols. 560

metatheorems. 193-94

metatheory. fonnalized. 194

meta-TNT. etc .• 442-43. 533-34

meta-wishes. see wishes

meteorites. 167. 172

methylation. 540-41

metric. mental. 613. 614; see also conceptual near-

ness

Meyer. Leonard B .• 167. 704

Michelangelo. 642

microprogramming. 295

minds: overlap of. 376; programmability of. 302.

679. see also AI. paradox of AI. Tesler's The-
     orem. non programmability; thoughts and.
     369--90; two ways of creating. 390; vs. brains.


680. 575-77; see also brains. inteUigence. etc.
     mini-vocabulary. 647
     Minsky. MalVin. 373. 388. 644. 679. 722
     mirroring. see isomorphisms. representation
     misspelling and computers. 297-98
     MIU-numbers. 264~7: See also theorem-numbers
     MIU-system. 33-41. 46. 47. 48. 52. 191. 260~7;
     as model for TNT. 439-42. 466; table of rules
     of. 260
     MIU+MU-system.466
     Mobius Strip I (Escher). 29-30
     Mobius Strip II (Escher). 276
     modes of fugue-listening. 282-84
     modularity. 149-50. 615-18. 628. 677-78; see also
     localization. local vs. global properties
     modulation. 10. 121-23. 129--30. 466. 501. 717.
     739
     modules in brain. see symbols
     Modus Ponens. see detachment
     molecular biology. 504. 514-48
     Mondrian. Piet. 700

Index

monkeys. vision of. 345-46

Monod. Jacques. 161

morphogenesis. 539. 543-44

Mosaic II (Escher). 61~3

mountain-car wreck story. 338-39. 361. 365

Mozart. W. A.. 649. 702

mRNA. 517-20. 522-25. 527-28. 530-33. 536.

545. 
     
     
     
     547. 
          
          
          
          662. 663
               MU. as possible theorem of MIU-system. 33-41.
          
          
          
          
     
     
     
     


546. 25~1. 265~7. 271. 708
     MU. Zen word. 233. 241. 246. 254. 259. 272. 311.
     312-313. 328
     MU-LOOP (FiooP). 424-25. 441
     Mu Offering. A. 272. 628
     mu-operator.424
     MU-piaure. 283-84. 310-13. 327. 328-29.
     525-26
     MU-puzzle. 33-41. 259~1. 509-10. 613-14
     multifurcation of TNT. 467
     multiple representations. 616-18. 670-71. 674
     multiplication. 54-56. 64~5. 206. 409. 455. 566.
     567
     Mumon. 242. 246. 248-49. 253. 259. 260. 272;
     commentaries by. 246-49. 252; poems by.
     246-49. 252. 272
     MUMON. string of TNT. 265~7. 271. 441-42
     MumonItan. 246
     music: composed by computer. 25. 595. 597. 603.
     607-9. 626-27. 676-77; dimensions of. 175;
     mathematics and. 227. 555. 560; modern.
     156-57. 163~. 174-75. 699-700. 704; notation
     of. 552-59. see also SMUT; semantics of. 83.
     162~. 167. 174-75. 582-84. 626-27. 676-77;
     superhuman comprehension of. 172. 679; syn-
     tax of. 121-23. 129-30. 227. 626-27. 737; to
     break phonographs by. 75-78; to infiltrate pho-
     nographs by. 487-88; see also fugues. canons.
     pianos. flutes. etc.
     music box. preprogrammed. 677
     Musical Offering. Tlui (Bach). 4-10. 86. 665. 666.


547. 
     
     
     
     720. 
          
          
          
          724. 
               
               
               
               727. 739-42
                    mutations. 295
               
               
               
               
          
          
          
          
     
     
     
     

N. see number theory

Najunamar. Z .• 549-52

Nansen. 248-49. 253. 255

natural language utterances as programs. 629

natural numbers: defined. 54. 204; generalized;

453-56; postulates for. 216-17; see also number

theory. numerals. TNT. prime numbers. etc.

near misses, see "ahnost"-situations

nearly decomposable systems. 303~

negation. 70. 71. 183. 191-92. 21O-11. 214. 545

negative space. 62~. 66~. 72; see also figure

and ground

nested movies. 184-85

nested works of art. 15. 106. 700-1. 705~

nesting. 127. 138-41. 184-85. 660; see also recur-

sion

neural networks. see symbols

Neuroneater. 382

neurons: compared with ants. 315. 325. 339-40;

described. 339-40; Euclid·s. 60; faultless func-

tioning of. 575-77; firing of. 83. 340. 316.

343-45. 347. 350. 357; as an inviolate level.

302. 
     
     
     
     677. 
          
          
          
          686. 691-92. see also inaccessibility;
               not controllable consciously. 302. see also inac-
               cessibility; on-center and off-center. 343-44; in
               retina. 343-44; simple. complex. hypercomplex.
          
          
          
          
     
     
     
     

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