Reason Special interview with Roger Penrose

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Penrose talks about when we need to sidestep reason

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  • Considering if you're wrong isn't sidestepping reason, that IS reasoning.. same with looking at both sides of a position.

  • Powerful mind! Excellent teacher! Outstanding man!

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  • Penrose is one of the most important physicists working today, because he is willing to look out outside the box.

  • @mrqsilveira amen to that

  • This is a great map of how self criticism actually works

  • Hegel might be of some use here.

  • @alexeevic Joyce´s "Do i contradict myself? Very well, i contradict myself." is hardly logic - but is of course rational.

  • @SuperFractality Strange... I always thought that those two wore somehow... intertwined :p

  • One must learn to think rationally rather then logically.

  • @signorellil: Absolutely. Penrose's achievement is that you can enjoy the book even if you understand only 10% or less of it. He's an amazing writer. And the mathematical problems in the footnotes with those funny symbols for different degrees of frustration you would get solving them - plain genius.

  • @Mattprole: At last, someone is speaking it out loud. Thanks for that. There are too many people around with "theories" who don't have the slightest clue about even the basics of physics. That's the backside of Youtube. 20 years ago those people were just some weirdos who printed their own books at home and sold them via snail mail to other weirdos. :)

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