Kunda Dixit is a Nepali journalist who has founded his own Katmandu newspaper, although he started his career as a scientist after studying micro-biology in Bratislava in the 1970s. He talks about the many interesting turns his life has taken since then. Roger Penrose is a world-famous mathematician and scientist who has written much on the nature of the human mind. What does he think about the question of 'artificial intelligence'? Can a machine ever really be 'conscious'?