Notes on Roger Penrose – Why Intelligence Is Not a Computational
consciousness
Roger Penrose thinks that intelligence is not the result of computation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTVN6tFknCg
- There are things that happen in the physical world that are not computational.
- Quantum reality is different from classical physical reality.
- Those things may be happening in our brain, and there are thoughts that we have that provide strong evidence that it is the case that we can have thoughts that are not derived from computation.
- wavefunction collapse is not captured by the Schrödinger equation. It is considered “random”. The theory doesn’t explain when or why collapse happens — or even what exactly constitutes a “measurement.”
- This incompleteness is central to interpretations like Many-Worlds (no collapse, all outcomes happen).
- wavefunction collapse is often seen not as a feature, but as a placeholder for a deeper understanding yet to be found.