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Asking A Theoretical Physicist About The Physics Of Consciousness | Roger Penrose & Jordan Peterson

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The Paradox of Mathematics

There's only a tiny part of the conscious activity which is concerned with mathematics. So I had this picture which is sort of meant to be slightly paradoxical, that each world in a certain sense comes from a little bit of the world preceding it. And so it's drawn in a way which is like this impossible triangle which looks like a paradox. But there are certain creatures, things that just people in this room and elsewhere and probably other animals which may have less of it than humans,. but on the other hand, I certainly think they have consciousness, some of them.

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