maybe of interest! Best, Jeremy ------ Jeremy Butterfield: Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ: Tel: 07557-668413 (mobile) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:21:28 +0000 From: William Earley <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Roger Penrose Talk [Monday 6th March]
Dear all, Sorry for the mass mailing, I hope the content makes up for it! CUCaTS (the Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society) are hosting Professor Sir Roger Penrose for a talk next Monday, on the non-computability of conscious thinking. If youâre interested, the details are below: ---------- We invite you to our very exciting fifth talk of the year by Prof. Sir Roger Penrose - a mathematician, physicist, and philosopher of science. He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford. Title: On the non-computability of conscious thinking Abstract: It is argued, using the Gödel-Turing argument and considerations of natural selection, that human understanding cannot be an entirely computational activity. It is further argued that the non-computational ingredient of human thinking is a product of consciousness and, moreover, that this cannot be the result of solely classical physical actions in the brain. Even quantum procedures, as currently understood will not suffice, and it is argued that actions going beyond current quantum mechanics will be needed. Arguments from physics give some indication of the nature of these new actions. Date, time, and location: Monday the 6th of March, 8pm-9pm, Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/416810495324980/ <https://www.facebook.com/events/416810495324980/> Come along to the talk to find out more about the connection between fundamental physics, consciousness, and computability! We are heading to the pub with Roger Penrose after the talk, and the first drink is on CUCaTS! FREE DRINKS! Hope to see many of you at the talk and pub. ---------- If youâve read this far, weâre also holding our AGM on Tuesday 14th March with *free pizza* and more *free drinks*. Weâre always looking for interested people! Details are here (https://www.facebook.com/events/278224239265617/ <https://www.facebook.com/events/278224239265617/>), or reply to me for more information. Kind regards, Will Earley
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