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

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Is It Related to Intuition or Pattern Recognition?

i was wondering if you would be willing to give us a sense of your, your er, the way you describe the three spheresof matter and o mind and mathematics. It might give us a basis for some rich conversation subsequently. Well, may i ask, there's a e, i think, one important distinction here from what i can understand. When one understands something, let's say its the simple equation that two plus two equals four, it is not a belief. That that true e understanding is operating at a level that is beyond belief. So this is certainly a feeling that, as far as i'm aware, most mathematicians have. And the truths are there, and they're

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