Quotes About Roger Penrose

Awareness, I take to be one aspect-the passive aspect-of the phenomenon of consciousness. Consciousness has an active aspect also, namely the feeling of free will.

I am not so much concerned, at this stage, with how individual mathematicians might differently approach a mathematical problem, but more with what is universal about our understandings and our mathematical perceptions.

do not see how natural selection, in itself, can evolve algorithms which could have the kind of conscious judgements of the validity of other algorithms that we seem to have.

WHAT PRECISELY IS an algorithm, or a Turing machine, or a universal Turing machine? Why should these concepts be so central to the modern view of what could constitute a 'thinking device'?

Embracing the subjective interpretation quickly leads us to assertions that are patently absurd, underscoring the independence of mathematical knowledge of any human activity Just take me there...

To me the world of perfect forms is primary (as was Plato's own belief)-its existence being almost a logical necessity-and both the other two worlds are its shadows.

My older brother is a distinguished theoretical physicist, a fellow of the Royal Society.

associates and collaborators were Roger Penrose

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.