Epstein Secrets

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t we take for a Universe really nothing more complex than putting a DVD in the slot and hitting play? One last piece of trivia links Hofstadter with Penrose: Roger Penrose and his father invented the Penrose Steps, inspiring the never- ending staircase in the Escher prints featured in Hofstadter’s book. F

standing? Each summer I go on holiday to escape engineering for a couple of weeks. While away I indulge my passion for reading books by the likes of Douglas Hofstadter, David Deutsch and Stephen Hawking. One book that struck me years ago was Roger Penrose’s The Emperors New Mind. In it, he tackles the question of wh

sume that it’s possible to make AGI on digital computers. While we suspect this is correct, we must note that it isn’t proven. It might be that — as Penrose [Pen96], Hameroff [Mam87] and others have argued — we need quantum computers or quantum gravity computers to make AGI. However, there is no evidence

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