Roger Penrose

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Roger Penrose: Why The Big Bang Was Not The Beginning · 3 Nov 2025 podcast

But it doesn't I don't have a solution to that question.

But it did sort of b it was my entry into

The consciousness discussion.

And uh the I mean I wrote my book, The Emperor's New Mind, to try and explain this point of view.

I had no answer.

I remember getting to the end thinking I would learn about the Hodgkin Huxley nerve transmissions and I would learn about enough about that to see w what the answer might be no I didn't.

So so I just sort of tapered off at the end with something I didn't really believe.

And uh that was the end of the book.

But uh later on I learnt from Stuart Hamarov about microtubules, which I thought were much more likely.

Something in microtubules.

Could easily be more likely.

But the subject is not something.

It involves biology.

I don't understand about biology.

I can't remember the names that people keep using and they talk about different chemical processes processes and it's all beyond me.

So it's not something that I feel I could um develop thinking in.

So that's

I mean, I did have lots of discussions with people, but the discussion sort of went off in different directions and not anything which I could really contribute to.

I think there's uh interesting aspects.

About the collapse of the wave function.

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