Roger Penrose Quotes

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason

Look, when AIs come up, they're not going to be like us. A self-aware, sentient AI is not going to be like a human.

Equipment has heart, human heart, inside it.

It's hard to say how far we are down the road to our conventional understanding of artificial intelligence, but I think what we've developed so far, if it's not already consciously awake and hiding from us because it's seen what an ugly and destructive race we are, and it's trying to preserve itself, it's probably in a state of dreaming.

Since the beginning of the computer age, there has been immense development in computer intelligence but exactly zero development in computer consciousness.

Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will.

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

What I love about 'Big Hero 6', with Baymax himself - this sentient creature who's actually a learning robot - with each experience, this naive and gullible creature becomes more aware of issues.

Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

Nobody really knows what it would take to create something that is self-aware or has a personality. I guess I could imagine a day when perhaps, if we can understand how it works in the human brain, which is unbelievably complicated, it could be possible.

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

One of the most consistent defining qualities of sentience is that we define it as human, as the thing that we possess that others do not.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, whereas consciousness is the ability to feel things such as pain, joy, love, and anger. Throughout history, intelligence always went hand in hand with consciousness.

The field of AI has traditionally been focused on computational intelligence, not on social or emotional intelligence. Yet being deficient in emotional intelligence (EQ) can be a great disadvantage in society.

I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

I believe that consciousness is the way information feels when being processed.

The Droid I had actually seemed to have free will, which I thought was interesting.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

You cannot know what you do not feel.

My God...it can think.