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Oct 8, 2020 at 17:02 comment added Timothy Chow @Roboticist : Penrose's invocation of Goedel's incompleteness theorem to support his claims about consciousness are, at minimum, highly controversial. I would say that the dominant view among those trained in logic is that Penrose's argument is fallacious.
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Oct 8, 2020 at 12:11 comment added Hollis Williams See his views on quantum mechanics and the nature of consciousness, for example. Also his criticisms of cosmic inflation in the face of current experimental evidence.
Oct 8, 2020 at 6:32 comment added gmvh "mathematical physicist" is perfectly fine, my objection was only to the specific term "a mathematically literate physicist", which suggest something else.
Oct 8, 2020 at 2:04 comment added user106458 What are his "very controversial" statement?
Oct 7, 2020 at 20:56 comment added Robert Furber @gmvh In this interview Penrose says that physicists consider him a mathematician and mathematicians consider him a physicist, and he puts "mathematical physicist" when he has to write something on an official form: youtu.be/JiDWGbsVEno?t=1434
Oct 7, 2020 at 19:18 comment added Hollis Williams It depends on whether you consider a mathematical physicist to be a mathematician or a physicist, I would say the latter.
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Oct 7, 2020 at 19:15 comment added Hollis Williams He is definitely a mathematical physicist. Does that mean Taubes cannot be called a mathematician because his undergraduate degree and PhD are in physics? I will change to 'mathematical physicist'.
Oct 7, 2020 at 19:03 comment added gmvh I'm not sure Penrose can be called "a mathematically literate physicist", given that both his undergraduate degree and PhD are in mathematics.
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