Roger Penrose: "My Crazy Idea That Explains the Universe"

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 \