Roger Penrose: Why The Big Bang Was Not The Beginning

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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