The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics

The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics

by Roger Penrose
The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics

The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics

by Roger Penrose

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Overview

In The Emporer's New Mind, eminent physicist Roger Penrose argues that there are facets of human thinking, of human imagination, that can never be emulated by a machine. Exploring a dazzling array of topics--complex numbers, black holes, entropy, quasicrystals, the structure of the brain, and the physical processes of consciousness--Penrose demonstrates that laws even more wondrously complex than those of quantum mechanics are essential for the operation of a mind.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198784920
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 07/01/2016
Series: Oxford Landmark Science
Edition description: Revised
Pages: 640
Sales rank: 87,630
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Roger Penrose is the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He has received a number of prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize which he shared with with Stephen Hawking for their joint contribution to our understanding of the universe.

Table of Contents

Prologue1. Can a computer have a mind? 2. Algorithms and Turing Machines3. Mathematics and Reality4. Truth, Proof, and Insight5. The Classical World6. Quantum Magic and Quantum Mystery7. Cosmology and the Arrow of Time8. In Search of Quantum Gravity9. Real brains and Model Brains10. Where Lies the Physics of the Mind? Epilogue References Index
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