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Episode 11: The Turing Principle and Artificial General Intelligence

The Theory of Anything

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Penrose's Argument for Non-Computable Element in Consciousness

Penrose in his in Emperor's New Mind he says I shall argue strongly that there must be an essentially non algorithmic element in the action of consciousness. He then goes on to argue but he argues consciousness isn't described by classical physics, quantum mechanics or even quantum gravity. His whole argument is computers can't violate Goldle's incompleteness theorem and therefore they shouldn't be able to do what humans are doing. Is it possible that we'll need quantum mechanics quantum computers or quantum gravity computers even to build consciousness yet? There's reasons why it seems unlikely though we know that quantum phenomena can't really exist in the brain right at least based on our best current understandings of how you engineer

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