Roger Penrose

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1,638 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard 3 Nov

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And with w the weather on that planet, there's n there's no life.

It just never got started.

And there's no butterfly to flap its wings and cause the weather to do this or that.

It's just um a quantum mixture of all the different weathers it could possibly have.

And there's no conscious observer to look at it, so it's just a quantum superposition of all these different alternatives.

So the space probe which travels out takes a photograph of all this superposition of all these different weathers.

And when it gets back to Earth or close to Earth it sends a signal.

to the earth and says, This is the photograph I've just taken.

And somebody's sitting in the

looking at a screen, sees this superposition of weathers.

First time a conscious being has seen it, whoop, suddenly it becomes one weather.

Doesn't make any sense.

So that's not what I believe.

It's not that consciousness cause causes the collapse of the wave function.

My view is almost the opposite.

It's that whatever consciousness is, it depends on

on the collapse of the wave function.

That there is the only thing which I could see which was not obviously computable.

Okay, the way we do it this would just an introduce a randomness, but that I would argue is an approximation, but there is something going on

Which is not just explained by randomness.

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