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

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The Relationship Between Conscious Beings and the Nature of What Is Independent of Us

Do you think that there is a kinship or perhaps that mathematical reality or truth is part of a realm that exists as independently as mathematics do? I think there's an, I believe I have in some places adorned this picture with the platonic world being part of a bigger picture. And I remember drawing a picture somewhere, I can't even remember where now, in which this platonic world was part of a larger body of things like beauty and virtue. Not quite what I've been talking about, which is a very specific thing, which is understanding mathematical truth. So I certainly would agree that there's more to it than that, and I think that's what you're telling me.

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