h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

IIRC wasn't the ordered list spoken in the (Sweedish voice, was it?) process of discovering the dog's name--exactly prior to the mentioning of the name "Kieron," didn't the dog bark? And didn't Dirk discover that the reason the dog barked is because it wanted to be told to shut up?

What it seems like is that the dog felt a volition to give Dirk a clue to help it solve the mystery of the dog's name. It also seems like the dog was willing to accept any kind of acknowledgment that the communication was received. One explanation for this is because perhaps the dog infers that Dirk is busy and is willing to shut up hoping that Dirk will infer the correct answer later, which Dirk does.

The reason I think this is because Dirk trades away a copy of On the Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, which elucidates the analagous point, if I understand Dr. Jynes correctly.

Addenum--
Tying in other correlations, Stephen Hawking mentions a "Psychological Arrow of Time" which is discrete from, but affected by the "Thermodynamic Arrow of Time." Remember that thermodynamics measure the degree of organization within the information content of a system, and also Dirk himself is one such system.

My point is that it's unnecessary for multiple copies of Dirk to exist in a--actually, I don't know what my point is--my point is a question--trying to identify, where is the disorganization occurring?

I think the way most of the local events of significance (such as presence of Bach music, which in the short term is a response to two professors of philosophy and music trying to cajole a Radio guy to play only Mozart) are measured is using Reg's abacus -- (see p.151 of A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking)

Does this make sense to anyone else?