Roger Penrose Quotes

The human brain has an amazing ability for pattern recognition, sometimes even better than a computer.

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness.

I love the human mind.

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

Intelligence is set by policy.

I believe there is something going on in a conscious being, which includes many animals, as well as ourselves, that is not a computational activity. And to be conscious at all is not a quality that a computer as such will ever possess - no matter how complicated, no matter how well it plays chess or any of these things.

To make real progress in A.I., we have to overcome the big challenges in the area of common sense.

The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.

Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.

My God...it can think.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

Mind is not your intelligence.

The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.

I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

My biggest resource is my mind.

Brains aren't everything, but they're important.