Penrose, consciousness, incompleteness
Scott Aaronson wrote a very nice piece about consciousness and Quantum Mechanics. Actually, he’s just bashing some of Penrose’s ideas about consciousness and the inability of machines to achieve it.
I personally dislike these ideas of Penroses or Searles (Such as the Chinese Room). I find that any logical proof regarding a computation machine must apply, by definition, to humans (the thought experiments such as the Chinese Room or the halting problem do not refer to a computer - they portray ideas inherent to any logic system).
If you think otherwise, it means you are assuming humans are beyond computers to begin with - and then no wonder you reach this conclusion eventually.
