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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 consciousness.

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  OUTLINE:
  00:00 - 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

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