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

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The Non-Deterministic Process

There's one way into this to speak about, I mean, so much of our thinking, of course, is calculative. We're calculating how to get to it. And that seems to point towards the realm or a kind of thinking or awareness that is clearly distinct from a simply mechanistic calculation. Yes. It's just it's hard to know whether those things could be put into a computational system. The reason for concentrating on this very specific area is that I can say something about it. So the particular area is mathematical proof. Most people don't bother themselves with mathematical proof, so they're conscious too. But if you can find something in what consciousness seems to do, which is

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