#85 – Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe

Roger Penrose is physicist, mathematician, and philosopher at
University of Oxford. He has made fundamental contributions in many
disciplines from the mathematical physics of general relativity and
cosmology to the limitations of a computational view of
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Introduction 03:51 - 2001: A Space Odyssey 09:43 - Consciousness
and computation 23:45 - What does it mean to "understand" 31:37 -
What's missing in quantum mechanics? 40:09 - Whatever consciousness
is, it's not a computation 44:13 - Source of consciousness in the
human brain 1:02:57 - Infinite cycles of big bangs 1:22:05 - Most
beautiful idea in mathematics