Brian Keating interviews Sir Roger Penrose: The Emperor’s New Mind — Consciousness & Computers (#034)

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Brian Keating

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🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Books mentioned in this episode: The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of Wadham College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. Penrose has made contributions to the mathematical physics of general relativity and cosmology. He has received several prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems. Penrose sat down with Professor Brian Keating to discuss artificial intelligence, consciousness, cosmology, and the many fascinating developments in physics since the publication of The Emperor’s New Mind in 1989. Previous talks at UC San Diego: Conformal Cyclic Cosmology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt1WH_SkazQ&t=2284s New Theory of Dark Matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlSMME-Cl5g Physics and Fantasy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaIdJMxP6bA Hawking Points in the CMB: https://youtu.be/gfYBfjVt08k Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic.
0:05.0	Five, four, three of the Arthur C. Clark Center for Human Imagination in the the
0:25.0	production of the Arthur C. Clark Center for Human Imagination in the Division of Physical Sciences at
0:27.0	UC San Diego.
0:28.0	And it's a treat to welcome Sir Roger Penrose back to UC San Diego.
0:32.0	Pleasure certainly, yes.
0:34.0	Yeah, we're certainly back.
0:36.0	Thank you.
0:37.0	We're extracting a lot out of you in this visit.
0:39.0	We are grateful to you for hosting, to be hosting these many talks that you're giving. You gave one
0:46.8	talk that was more than standing room only earlier today. You're doing this
0:51.5	interview now and tomorrow you're giving another talk.
0:54.0	It's really quite generous of you.
0:55.4	Thank you so much and I've come to expect that of you,
0:58.6	your gracious as always and so responsive and it couldn't be a greater treat to have you affiliated with our fine university.
1:07.6	When I was mentioning to some of my followers online that you were coming. I wanted to to highlight that this is actually the fifth
1:15.9	decade of this book here, The Emperor's New Mind, which is, as I pointed out, was the first popular,
1:22.3	so to speak,
1:23.1	science book that I ever read as a teenager in 1989
1:27.0	when it first came out.
1:28.8	And I've been remarking along with my friends
1:31.4	on how much has changed, but also how little has changed.
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