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Sir Roger Penrose | The Emperor’s New Mind: Consciousness & Computer | INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast (#311)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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The Inconsistency of Quantum Theory

In a certain sense, I mean there's an irony here because, okay, conscious beings came about in a way by natural selections. But they were successful in the view I hold by probing the laws of physics at a much deeper level than we've seen yet. And this has to be still, it was already the argument I gave in the Emperor's News New Mind but although not quite the right criteria in my view. It has to be at this place where we have to go beyond current quantum theory. My claim is you've got to harness that bit and somehow the conscious brain is at some point making use of this part of this place.

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