Episode 28: Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Consciousness, and the Universe




Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas show

Summary: Sir Roger Penrose has contributed an enormous amount to our understanding of general relativity, perhaps more than anyone since Einstein himself. He has made important contributions to mathematics, and has also made bold conjectures in the notoriously contentious areas of quantum mechanics and the study of consciousness. We concentrate in this discussion on spacetime, black holes, and cosmology, but we made sure to reserve some time to dig into quantum mechanics and the brain by the end.