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A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

~Roger Penrose

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The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself.

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My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

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I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.

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People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

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And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.

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Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.

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As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.

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The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.

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Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Physicist

Born: August 8th, 1931

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