Roger Penrose: The Bro Emperor’s New Mind

Today the bros talk about a monumental, if flawed, effort to present a coherent argument against the idea that “Strong Ai” or the idea that consciousness arises solely from algorithmic processes (and that therefore the human brain is in essence a computer and the mind is a program). Does he succeed? Maybe. Probably not. But the process is very interesting. Bibliography: - Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Re: physicalism, qualia, individuated sentience, Einstein-brains - J.R. Lucas: Minds Machines and Godel - Searle: Minds Brains and Programs Re: Chinese Room -A Historical Overview of Ai Winters Re: Framing effect, “Ai Effect” -Newman and Nagel: "Gödel's Proof" Re: mathematical incompleteness -Wallace: Consider The Lobster, "Authority and American Usage" Re: Constructing realities, being and consciousness -Hegel: Example Of The Hegelian Dialectic" Duality of being and nothing, dialectic processes, sublation -Christian: Big History Re: Watchmaker fallacy, God of Gaps, philosophy of knowledge -Assefa: Tiling the Plane Recent discovery of infinite non-periodic tiling shapes