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Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.

I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance.

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about - and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

Our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

Even an aardvarks think their offspring are beautiful

Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

Do not be afraid to skip equations (I do this frequently myself).

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.