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 Read Quote
Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion. Roger Penrose Read Quote
In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don’t know if either one of them is the right approach to nature. Roger Penrose Read Quote
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality. Roger Penrose Read Quote
My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go. Roger Penrose Read Quote
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 Read Quote
A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever. Roger Penrose Read Quote
Well I didn’t actually see the Matrix but I’ve seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes. Roger Penrose Read Quote
