#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness

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OUTLINE:
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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