- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was indeed very slow as a youngster.
- Little Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.
- Motion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature.
- Gauge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
So what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing Schrodinger's equation at some level when masses become too big at the level that you might have to worry about Einstein's general relativity.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The image of Stephen Hawking - who has died aged 76 - in his motorised wheelchair, with head contorted slightly to one side and hands crossed over to work the controls, caught the public imagination as a true symbol of the triumph of mind over matter.
- Distinguished
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- Nov 07, 2020
My older brother is a distinguished theoretical physicist, a fellow of the Royal Society.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father came from a Quaker family. His father was a professional artist who did portraits - very traditional, a lot of religious subjects.
- Demonstrating
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father himself was a human geneticist who was recognized for demonstrating that older mothers tend to get more Down syndrome children, but he had lots of scientific interests.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science and fun cannot be separated.
- Computational
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Computation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you come from mathematics, as I do, you realize that there are many problems, even classical problems, which cannot be solved by computation alone.
- Clever
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- Nov 07, 2020
A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have certainly enjoyed puzzles since an early age, and things that look like impossible things are often particularly intriguing.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in Cambridge reading mathematics, I went to Amsterdam for the International Mathematics Congress. There I saw M.C. Escher's fascinating work. That inspired me to try my hand at drawing such impossibilities.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020