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Roger Penrose
Physicist and mathematician who argued human consciousness is non-algorithmic.
Organizations
University of Oxford
Major Achievements
- •Though his AI critique ('The Emperor's New Mind') was published later, his mathematical work in the 70s set the stage for it.
- •Argued utilizing Gödel's incompleteness theorems that the human brain operates on quantum physical principles that classical AI can never simulate.
- •Provided a prominent, scientifically-grounded counter-narrative to computationalism.