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Unclear Thoughts and Understanding
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24:28 - 31:36 (07:07)

The speaker reflects on the quality of understanding and how it influences different things in life, both personally and professionally. They discuss the advantages of possessing an understanding quality and how it's not limited to mathematicians doing their work.

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The quality of understanding is a tremendous advantage to mathematicians and everyone else; this is combined with neural networks that makes them able to pick one thing over another.
24:28 - 28:10 (03:41)
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Neural networks
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The quality of understanding is a tremendous advantage to mathematicians and everyone else; this is combined with neural networks that makes them able to pick one thing over another. It is possible to make a machine do creative outputs like putting funny things on a paper.

Chapter
Unclear Thoughts and Understanding
Episode
#85 – Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast
The speaker discusses how humans tend to romanticize and anthropomorphize animal behavior, despite it being a result of natural selection.
28:10 - 29:50 (01:40)
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Animal Behavior
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The speaker discusses how humans tend to romanticize and anthropomorphize animal behavior, despite it being a result of natural selection. They specifically mention elephants caressing bones and elephants needing to travel long distances.

Chapter
Unclear Thoughts and Understanding
Episode
#85 – Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast
The speaker ponders over the complexity of human thought and the underlying mechanisms that drive it, questioning whether or not hardware mechanisms in computers could aid in understanding it.
29:50 - 31:36 (01:45)
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Human thought
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The speaker ponders over the complexity of human thought and the underlying mechanisms that drive it, questioning whether or not hardware mechanisms in computers could aid in understanding it.

Chapter
Unclear Thoughts and Understanding
Episode
#85 – Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast