Consciousness must be beyond computable physics, says mathematician Roger Penrose

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Joel  Kontinen 

The University of Oxford mathematician Roger Penrose. He thinks he is an agnostic but he does not doesn’t believe in the Darwinian theory that  consciousness is located in the brain and says that consciousness must be beyond computable physics,  However, he thoughts are not religious.

In 2020, Penrose was awarded one half of the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery the black hole.

Source:  

Brooks,  Michael, 2O22. Roger Penrose: "Consciousness must be beyond computable physics" New Scientist, 14 November.