244. Asking A Theoretical Physicist About The Physics Of Consciousness | Roger Penrose

Dr. Peterson recently traveled to the UK for a series of lectures at the highly esteemed Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. This conversation was recorded during that period with Sir Roger Penrose, a British mathematical physicist who was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for “discovering that black hole formation is a robust predictor of Einstein’s general relativity.” Moderated by Dr. Stephen Blackwood.___________Chapters___________[0:00] Intro[1:00] Is Consciousness Computational?[3:20] Turing Machines[6:30] Determinism & the Arrow of Time[12:15] Consciousness & Reductionism[17:30] Emergent Randomness & Evolution[23:00] The Tiling Problem, Computation, & AI[29:30] Escher, Brains, Bach[39:00] Pattern Recognition & Intuition[45:30] Mathematical Representations & the Physical World[54:00] Collapsing Schrodinger’s Equation[1:00:00] Consciousness-Independent Reality[1:07:00] Black Holes & Time Horizons[1:15:00] Einstein’s Biggest Mistake[1:27:00] Meaning & Consciousness[1:39:00] Hawking Spots: Potential