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244. Asking A Theoretical Physicist About The Physics Of Consciousness | Roger Penrose

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The Potential Necessary Function of Consciousness

consciousness seems to do, from a neuro physiological perspective, we tend to become conscious of our procedure errors. And so it looks to me like it's something like a correction system for for underlying elgarthmic systems. If the future is deterministic, then an elgaritic system could, in principle, adapt to it. But i don't, it doesn't seem to me that the future can be predictable. I think that that might be grounded in something like quantum indeterminacy - because there isn't a fundamental determinism that propagates all the way upso well. The question is whether this coincides with yourne standing about what things are true or false in mathematics.

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