Penrose, conciousness, and delayed homework

Long time delayed, I finally got a copy of The Emperor’s New Mind by Roger Penrose. The book was originally published in 1989. Yes, I never read it from cover to back, and finally yesterday I run out of self imposed excuses and got me a copy. I guess that it was the result of listening to the Teaching Company lecture series The Phylosophy of Mind by John Searl, also falling on the same alley. Recreative reading, may be, but I am still fascinated to keep running into belivers and detractors of strong and soft AI almost 20 years after Penrose’s book was published.