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Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose
English Physicist
Born: Aug 8, 1931
About Consciousness Father People Think You
Related authors: Albert Einstein J. Robert Oppenheimer Martin H. Fischer Michio Kaku Niels Bohr Richard P. Feynman Stephen Hawking Werner Heisenberg
When I was in Cambridge reading mathematics, I went to Amsterdam for the International Mathematics Congress. There I saw M.C. Escher's fascinating work. That inspired me to try my hand at drawing such impossibilities. Roger Penrose
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My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record. Roger Penrose
Champion Brother Record Chess Up Times Ended Younger Younger Brother British
Some people take the view that the universe is simply there, and it runs along - it's a bit as though it just sort of computes, and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing. I don't think that's a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe. Roger Penrose
People Some People Looking Accident Think Universe Way Bit Though Ourselves Find Runs Some Take Simply Along Sort Very Just Happen Fruitful View Helpful Thing
Quantum entanglement is a very intriguing issue, but it is not impossible. Roger Penrose
Impossible Intriguing Quantum Issue Very
Sometimes it's the detours which turn out to be the fruitful ideas. Roger Penrose
Sometimes Out Detours Ideas Fruitful Which Turn
I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems. Roger Penrose
Problems Pretty Tenacious
As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on. Roger Penrose
You Consistency Extra String Way String Theory Say Dimensions About How Behave Certain Should Requirements Requires Theory
The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions. Roger Penrose
Extra Add Dimensions Theory Basic
Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has. Roger Penrose
Understanding Gauge Our Has-Been Physical Idea Longer Days Also Well Forces Around Been Mathematical Very Than Dependent Which Theory Fundamental
Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much. Roger Penrose
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But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality. Roger Penrose
Beauty Think Other Say About Morality Absolutes Issue Wonder Serious Platonic
If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it. Roger Penrose
You World Morality Any Really Beings Conscious Consciousness
Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes. Roger Penrose
Seen Other See Similar Well Sort Matrix Where Movies Themes Actually
My older brother is a distinguished theoretical physicist, a fellow of the Royal Society. Roger Penrose
Older Society Distinguished Brother Physicist Fellow Theoretical Older Brother Royal
My father came from a Quaker family. His father was a professional artist who did portraits - very traditional, a lot of religious subjects. Roger Penrose
Family Father Religious Quaker Came Traditional His Lot Subjects Very Did Artist Who Professional Portraits
My father himself was a human geneticist who was recognized for demonstrating that older mothers tend to get more Down syndrome children, but he had lots of scientific interests. Roger Penrose
Father Down Older Syndrome Recognized More Tend Had He Geneticist Himself Scientific Mothers Demonstrating Lots Get Human Children Interests Who
I believe there is something going on in a conscious being, which includes many animals, as well as ourselves, that is not a computational activity. And to be conscious at all is not a quality that a computer as such will ever possess - no matter how complicated, no matter how well it plays chess or any of these things. Roger Penrose
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If you come from mathematics, as I do, you realize that there are many problems, even classical problems, which cannot be solved by computation alone. Roger Penrose
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I have certainly enjoyed puzzles since an early age, and things that look like impossible things are often particularly intriguing. Roger Penrose
Age Impossible Intriguing Puzzles Since Like Look Particularly Often Certainly Enjoyed Things Early Early Age
I used to make polyhedra with my father. There were no clear lines between games and toys for children and his professional work. Roger Penrose
Work Father Clear Between Toys Make Were His Lines Children Used Games Professional
Might we... be doing something with our brains that cannot be described in computational terms at all? How do our feelings of conscious awareness - of happiness, pain, love, aesthetic sensibility, will, understanding, etc. - fit into such a computational picture? Roger Penrose
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