Awareness Quote by Roger Penrose

I believe there is something going on in a conscious being, which includes many animals, as well as ourselves, that is not a computational…

— Roger Penrose

“consciousness has a precise role to play in the computational economy of the brain—it selects, amplifies, and propagates relevant thoughts.”

— Stanislas Dehaene

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

— Roger Penrose

The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

— Timothy Leary

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship…

— Tony Hoare

“It’ll be decades—and maybe never—before the computer can replicate many of the things that the brain can do in terms of imagination, synthesis, and…

— Ray Dalio

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

— Roger Penrose

The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our…

— Eric Kandel

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks…

— Thomas Nagel

A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have…

— Tony Hoare

The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our…

— Eric Kandel

The computer model will be replaced by an organic model, in which the brain-mind is embodied - part of a whole, dynamic, living organism:…

— Siri Hustvedt