Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense..

There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge. For example, there is ….

It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have to regard the brain as "o….

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train..

Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which ….

The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions..

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 no….

I was indeed very slow as a youngster..

It seems to me that we must make a distinction between what is "objective" and what is "measurable" in discussing the question of physical reality, a….

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does..

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 o….

There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance. Some people take the view that the u….

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment..

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can..

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance..

Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes..

We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then….

No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern parent o….

If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it..

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding ….

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up.