Consciousness is Not a Computation (Roger Penrose) | AI Podcast Clips

Why HN readers recommended it

Pointed to in consciousness and AI threads as the best-known statement of Penrose's view, which commenters find interesting even when they disagree.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Lex Fridman

Topic

consciousness and computation

Format

podcast

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• I think it was on this site that someone posted the very interesting perspectives on consciousness by Roger Penrose.[2] From that I found this video by Dr. Stuart Hameroff, M.D.: Microtubules & quantum consciousness.[1] Higly recommended. [1]: [LINK] [2]: [VIDEO]

• Consciousness is Not a Computation (Roger Penrose) | AI Podcast Clips [VIDEO] Full episode: [LINK] I don't take Roger's view about consciousness for granted but it is very interesting nevertheless.

• Roger Penrose talked about this with Lex Fridman. The anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff is looking into how anesthesia affects microtubules and the implications for consciousness. Penrose is intrigued by the symmetry of microtubules and the possibility for this symmetry to enable quantum coherence to be accessible …