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. Roger Penrose More Quotes by Roger Penrose More Quotes From Roger Penrose 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 gauges understanding ideas 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 knowing real people This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it. Roger Penrose physics relationship book I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems. Roger Penrose tenacious problem 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 consistency requirements way The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions. Roger Penrose dimensions theory add I was indeed very slow as a youngster. Roger Penrose youngsters 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. Roger Penrose feelings people thinking Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes. Roger Penrose theme wells But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality. Roger Penrose pregnancy beauty thinking Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation. Roger Penrose mindless deals understanding And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about. Roger Penrose long people thinking I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring. Roger Penrose worth i-am something think My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record. Roger Penrose up champion brother chess 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. Roger Penrose better respect humanity world So what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing Schrodinger's equation at some level when masses become too big at the level that you might have to worry about Einstein's general relativity. Roger Penrose saying think you worry As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness. Roger Penrose question well morality consciousness The image of Stephen Hawking - who has died aged 76 - in his motorised wheelchair, with head contorted slightly to one side and hands crossed over to work the controls, caught the public imagination as a true symbol of the triumph of mind over matter. Roger Penrose imagination mind work hands A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever. Roger Penrose just being clever mind Quantum entanglement is a very intriguing issue, but it is not impossible. Roger Penrose issue very quantum impossible
