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"Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does."
~ Roger Penrose
#BOTD 1931
~ Roger Penrose
#BOTD 1931
"Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known."
~ Roger Penrose
~ Roger Penrose
"It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them."
~ Roger Penrose
~ Roger Penrose
"There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance...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, I think that there is something much deeper about it, about its existence, which we have very little inkling of at the moment."
~ Roger Penrose
~ Roger Penrose
We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems,and these complex systems lead to consciousness,which then produces mathematics,which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it.
"I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance."
~ Roger Penrose
~ Roger Penrose
"There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge..."
~ Roger Penrose
~ Roger Penrose
"With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can."
~ Roger Penrose
~ Roger Penrose
"I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is made possible by each one having a direct route to truth...through the process of 'seeing'." ~ Roger Penrose
"It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment."
~ Roger Penrose
~ Roger Penrose
"Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation."
~ Roger Penrose
~ Roger Penrose
"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
~ Roger Penrose
"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
