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Part 2: Sir Roger Penrose & Stuart Hameroff: What is Consciousness? (#248)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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You Can't Prove It by the Rules, but You Trust Them

When i was a graduate dent in cambridge, i went to three courses which were nothing to do with what i was doing. I'd been puzzled by girdle's theorem, and it seemed to show there were things in mathematics you couldn't prove. What the girdl fer depends on is not using the rules, but your belief that these rules actually work. And that depends on understanding the rules. The quality of under tanding something isn't constrained by rules of any kind. It's not algoy thanits not, a computer is not capable of understanding. You know, for my perspective, physicists suffer from mathematician envy, in that we don't have an equivalent of

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