Recovering academic now in public safety. You’ll find me kibitzing on brains (my academic expertise) to critical infrastructure and resilience (current worklife). Also hockey, games, music just because.
“Summit competence” of the Peter Principle applies here. He is a giant in his field, so he has to move to an area where he is not an expert. Consciousness is a magnet for people who think their insights can expand beyond the arena in which they were developed. The issue is they often don’t know anything about brain or cognition when they try to do it.
It certainly wasn’t in The Emperor’s New Mind when he started to get into brain science.
Penrose should stay the fuck out of the brain. He spends too much time with the computational people and not enough time looking at how cognition actually works. Hint: we are not universal Turing machines.
So revenue is falling. The only way the bubble grows is forcing this shit into even more places?
Article is about Trump walking. Has video of Trump standing.
I think he does here, which is interesting. It is a little unclear because he keeps coming back to AI (and the interviewer is a douche) but he does seem to articulate that intelligence means consciousness which means something non-algorithmic.
I’m not even sure I have my copy of New Mind anymore but I want to go back and check my understanding of what he was arguing back in 2004 or whenever it was.
Eta: I feel like a doofus on a number of fronts. It was 1989, and right there in the wikipedia summary…
So here is where I admit that Penrose is with it and I am going senile.