What makes something timeless?
The celebrated mathematical physicist Roger Penrose wrote about computing and consciousness in 1989 and argued that consciousness is non-computational. The force of his arguments applies today and will continue to apply to the foreseeable future. The ideas put forward will always be relevant to the topic of computability and artificial intelligence. How can this be possible when computers are evolving at an ever-increasing rate, and when our technological capacity completely outperforms anything that existed thirty years ago?
If Penrose were talking about specific hardware or software from the 80s, then it may not have much predictive power even if we might find it interesting. If he were imagining the future based on his present, it still wouldn't hold because most people aren't great at predicting the future in a meaningful way. Instead, he talks about the logical principles behind computability itself, which greatly extend the unyielding nature of his arguments.
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