#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness
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Episode: #130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness
Pub date: 2020-10-12
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00:00 – Introduction
07:46 – Simulation
12:38 – Theories of everything
18:18 – Consciousness
40:32 – Roger Penrose on consciousness
50:44 – Turing test
54:31 – GPT-3
1:03:02 – Universality of computation
1:09:33 – Complexity
1:15:38 – P vs NP
1:27:57 – Complexity of quantum computation
1:40:03 – Pandemic
1:53:49 – Love
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