Sometimes it's the detours which turn out to be the fruitful ideas.
Roger PenroseIf the computer-guided robots turn out to be our superiors in every respect, then will they not find that they can run the world better without the need of us at all? Humanity itself will then have become obsolete.
Roger PenrosePeople think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.
Roger PenroseI believe there is something going on in a conscious being, which includes many animals, as well as ourselves, that is not a computational activity. And to be conscious at all is not a quality that a computer as such will ever possess - no matter how complicated, no matter how well it plays chess or any of these things.
Roger PenroseSo what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing Schrodinger's equation at some level when masses become too big at the level that you might have to worry about Einstein's general relativity.
Roger Penrose