Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose dismantles standard cosmology, arguing the Big Bang wasn't the beginning and quantum mechanics is fundamentally wrong. He then connects a real, gravitational wave function collapse to the non-computational nature of consciousness and why today's AI can't truly understand.
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Timestamps:
- 00:00 - The Big Bang Wasn't The Beginning
- 02:14 - Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC)
- 09:12 - The Collapse Problem
- 14:31 - A Feeling of Elation
- 24:32 - Gödel and Understanding
- 37:32 - Gravitational Collapse
- 50:05 - Critique of Modern AI
- 57:12 - Black Hole Information "Paradox"
- 1:04:15 - Wheeler, Wigner, & Witten
- 1:15:04 - Richard Feynman in Poland
- 1:20:25 - Libet's Timing of Consciousness
- 1:32:49 - Three Worlds, Three Mysteries
- 1:44:14 - Why Quantum Mechanics Is Wrong
Links mentioned:
- Stuart Hameroff [TOE]: https://youtu.be/0_bQwdJir1o
- Classical Theory [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9409195
- Rebecca Goldstein [TOE]: https://youtu.be/VkL3BcKEB6Y
- The Emperor’s New Mind [Book]: https://www.amazon.ca/Emperors-New-Mind-Concerning-Computers/dp/0192861980
- Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe [Book]: https://www.amazon.ca/Fashion-Faith-Fantasy-Physics-Universe/dp/0691178534
- Perturbative Gauge Theory as a String Theory in Twistor Space [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0312171
- What Is Life? [Book]: https://www.amazon.ca/What-Life-Matter-Autobiographical-Sketches/dp/1107604664
- Michael Levin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Exdz2HKP7u0
- Why I Don’t Buy the Simulation Hypothesis (Nor Materialism) [TOE]: https://youtu.be/3_lBPMc6JRY
- Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics [Book]: https://www.amazon.ca/Consciousness-Quantum-Mechanics-Shan-Gao/dp/0197501664
- Ivette Fuentes [TOE]: https://youtu.be/cUj2TcZSlZc
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