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Comment author: Caledonian2 17 May 2008 07:01:11PM 3 points [-]

The question is: How could the human brain do more than a universal Turing machine can? The answer is:

that it can't, that Penrose wants to believe a certain thing, so he started out with his conclusion and worked backwards. The problem with working backwards is that you tend not to notice logical forks.

Human brains can't do more than universal Turing machines.