#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness

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the timestamp to jump to that time. 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