English - Physicist | August 8, 1931 -
Sometimes it's the detours which turn out to be the fruitful ideas.
Roger Penrose
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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.
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Quantum entanglement is a very intriguing issue, but it is not impossible.
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But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
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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.
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I have certainly enjoyed puzzles since an early age, and things that look like impossible things are often particularly intriguing.
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If the computer-guided robots turn out to be our superiors in every respect, then will they not find that they can run the world better without the need of us at all? Humanity itself will then have become obsolete.
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People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.
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Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.
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Science and fun cannot be separated.
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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.
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The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself.
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