The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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

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 &amp; the Arrow of Time[12:15] Consciousness &amp; Reductionism[17:30] Emergent Randomness &amp; Evolution[23:00] The Tiling Problem, Computation, &amp; AI[29:30] Escher, Brains, Bach[39:00] Pattern Recognition &amp; Intuition[45:30] Mathematical Representations &amp; the Physical World[54:00] Collapsing Schrodinger’s Equation[1:00:00] Consciousness-Independent Reality[1:07:00] Black Holes &amp; Time Horizons[1:15:00] Einstein’s Biggest Mistake[1:27:00] Meaning &amp; Consciousness[1:39:00] Hawking Spots: Potential

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