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My older brother is a distinguished theoretical physicist, a fellow of the Royal Society.

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My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record.

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My father came from a Quaker family. His father was a professional artist who did portraits - very traditional, a lot of religious subjects.

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My father himself was a human geneticist who was recognized for demonstrating that older mothers tend to get more Down syndrome children, but he had lots of scientific interests.

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A computer is a great device because it enables you to do anything which is automatic, anything that you don't need your understanding for. Understanding is outside a computer. It doesn't understand.

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I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring.

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When I was in Cambridge reading mathematics, I went to Amsterdam for the International Mathematics Congress. There I saw M.C. Escher's fascinating work. That inspired me to try my hand at drawing such impossibilities.

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Quantum entanglement is a very intriguing issue, but it is not impossible.

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I used to make polyhedra with my father. There were no clear lines between games and toys for children and his professional work.

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Might we... be doing something with our brains that cannot be described in computational terms at all? How do our feelings of conscious awareness - of happiness, pain, love, aesthetic sensibility, will, understanding, etc. - fit into such a computational picture?

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Physicist

Born: August 8th, 1931

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