The Collapse of the Wave Function and Origins of Consciousness: A Conversation with Roger Penrose

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As my son the artist and many other people worry obsessively about AI, I kept wondering how Roger Penrose would see all this, as many years ago, I wandered desultorily through his book The Emperor's New Mind.

Somehow I found myself drifting in the internet to this lecture, which is absolutely fascinating, a discussion of the origins of consciousness viewed from a physicist's perspective. I can't recommend this clear exposition enough, which includes a wonderful discourse on the origins of the universe.

I was extremely privileged once to have spent an afternoon with the physicist Freeman Dyson in his office before he died, and this recalls that afternoon, one of the finest afternoons of my life, unforgettable. Finding this conversation, with an excellent interviewer, recalls that afternoon.