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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Penrose, Roger. Shadows of the mind. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994 (OCoLC)899695006 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Roger Penrose |
ISBN: | 0198539789 9780198539780 0099582112 9780099582113 0195106466 9780195106466 |
OCLC Number: | 30593111 |
Description: | xvi, 457 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | pt. I. Why We Need New Physics to Understand the Mind: The Non-Computability of Conscious Thought. 1. Consciousness and computation. 2. The Godelian case. 3. The case for non-computability in mathematical thought -- pt. II. What New Physics We Need to Understand the Mind: The Quest for a Non-Computational Physics of Mind. 4. Does mind have a place in classical physics? 5. Structure of the quantum world. 6. Quantum theory and reality. 7. Quantum theory and the brain. 8. Implications? |
Responsibility: | Roger Penrose. |
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Penrose has come closer than anyone to a rigorous discussion of the most intriguing problems of all: what are we? How do we think? And what is it that makes us human? * The Times * Clearly the product of a brilliant mind * Times Literary Supplement * His book may be the first accessible report to a general readership about the site, if not the actual substance, of the holy grail of consciousness - the precise point where quantum activity interacts with classical physical activity in the brain... His passionate attempt at popular exposition lends importance to a debate that he believes too crucial to be left to the specialists alone * Sunday Times * Read more...

