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I believe there is something going on in a conscious being, which includes many animals, as well as ourselves, that is not a computational activity. And to be conscious at all is not a quality that a computer as such will ever possess - no matter how complicated, no matter how well it plays chess or any of these things.
— Roger Penrose
Tags: will, matter, quality, believe

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My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record.
— Roger Penrose
Tags: up, chess, champion, brother
I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.
— Roger Penrose
Tags: pretty, problems
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.
— Roger Penrose
Tags: try, way, never, you
My father came from a Quaker family. His father was a professional artist who did portraits - very traditional, a lot of religious subjects.
— Roger Penrose
Tags: who, professional, father, family
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.
— Roger Penrose
Tags: long, thinking, time, hope
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