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"Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations."
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"There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium."
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"There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations."
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"Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations."
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"As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production."
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"If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it."
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"Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion."
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"As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on."
Consistency
"But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality."
Beauty
"People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that."
People
"My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go."
Time
"And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about."
People
"The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions."
Theory
"In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature."
Nature
"I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems."
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