@philosophyminis: So many of the conversations we have around #artificialintelligence and #consciousness feature what's called the ‘computational model of the mind.’ This is where we assume that our conscious life is a product of our brain. And, while our #brain is hugely complicated, it essentially runs by rules: the rules of biology and therefore #physics . But in this book ‘The Shadows of the mind’, the Nobel Prize winning Roger #Penrose uses Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem to argue this cannot be right. And I was lucky enough to see him live at HowTheLightGetsIn festival this weekend to revisit his argument. This is the problem: Godel's theorem shows that in any system of logic, there will always be truths that cannot be proven within the system itself. In other words, no matter how powerful a formal system is, it can't account for everything. This applies to computers and algorithms, too. They process data, and they spit out outputs, but they cannot go beyond their programming to discover truths that go beyond their logic. But according to Penrose, the human #mind can do something different. Because, mathematicians can understand things which go beyond formal rules – something that no computer can do on its own. Therefore, Penrose argues that the human mind must work not on a computational or algorithmic basis. So, what is consciousness? Penrose speculates that it may arise from those weird #quantum processes in the brain that go beyond classical computation. If Penrose is right, then consciousness is not just another program in the mind, but it's something much deeper and it's something unknown by modern science, at least at the moment. #AI #quantumphysics #philosophy #IAI

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