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]: What If Consciousness Came Before Life Its...
Classical Theory [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9409195
Rebecca Goldstein [TOE]: Rationality, Progress, & Gödel's Incomplet...
The Emperor’s New Mind [Book]: https://www.amazon.ca/Emperors-New-Mi...
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe [Book]: https://www.amazon.ca/Fashion-Faith-F...
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-Matte...
Michael Levin [TOE]: This New Tech Revolutionizes Biology... | ...
Why I Don’t Buy the Simulation Hypothesis (Nor Materialism) [TOE]: Why I Don't Buy the Simulation Hypothesis
Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics [Book]: https://www.amazon.ca/Consciousness-Q...
Ivette Fuentes [TOE]: The Breakthrough in Physics We’ve Been Wai...

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