Roger Penrose

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The um understanding of why the rules work.

is something which is not a computational thing.

What is it if it's not computational?

Well it's something to do with

Consciousness.

Now you see, I don't know anything about what I I I wrote my book The Emperor's New Mind to try and express this point of view.

And I learnt a bit of neurophysiology, thinking that if I kn learnt enough neurophysiology, I would find out somewhere what it is that uh

Maybe.

You see, I'd I've formed the view y yes, l I have to backtrack a little bit.

I formed the view

Thinking of all the laws of physics, you see, I'm a physicalist, so I believe whatever is going on in our heads is following the laws of physics.

But what are the laws of physics?

I don't know, it's a physics.

Newtonian mechanics does pretty well.

But then you have to go further than that.

You have to have Maxwell's equations, you have to talk about um

special relativity, a general relativity and uh

Quantum mechanics.

Well but all these things.

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