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by sarchertech 248 days ago
I replied to your other post. His proof is much subtler than that and if it has flaws that isn’t it.

https://calculemus.org/MathUniversalis/NS/10/01penrose.html

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I replied to you there.

But in section 4.5 of this "rebuttal", he admits to the flaw that I just pointed out, and dismisses it as logically possible but absurd. The fact that he grants that it is logically possible, demonstrates that his attempted logical demonstration is broken.

Also his opinion on absurdity has to be weighed against the unlikeliness of his conclusion that the known laws of physics will not suffice to explain the operation of the brain. Clearly that question is not as cut and dried as he believes.

responded to your other reply.