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| | Shadows of the Mind:
A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness
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| | by Roger Penrose
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ZIN Product Number: 10035713
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 480 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195106466
Release Date: Jan 3, 1999
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
"In Part I of {this book} Penrose makes his . . . case that human consciousness cannot be fully understood in computational terms. Part II is a . .. speculative search for new principles, both in physics and in neurobiology,that might one day accommodate a noncomputational model of human thought. . .. {Penrose} believes that the key to a satisfactory science of consciousness lies in a future physics that will differ substantially from our current conceptions." (Commentary) Bibliography. Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
A New York Times bestseller when it appeared in 1989, Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind was universally hailed as a marvelous survey of modern physics as well as a brilliant reflection on the human mind, offering a new perspective on the scientific landscape and a visionary glimpse of the possible future of science. Now, in Shadows of the Mind, Penrose offers another exhilarating look at modern science as he mounts an even more powerful attack on artificial intelligence. But perhaps more important, in this volume he points the way to a new science, one that may eventually explain the physical basis of the human mind. Penrose contends that some aspects of the human mind lie beyond computation. This is not a religious argument (that the mind is something other than physical) nor is it based on the brain's vast complexity (the weather is immensely complex, says Penrose, but it is still a computable thing, at least in theory). Instead, he provides powerful arguments to support his conclusion that there is something in the conscious activity of the brain that transcends computation - and will find no explanation in terms of present-day science. To illuminate what he believes this "something" might be, and to suggest where a new physics must proceed so that we may understand it, Penrose cuts a wide swathe through modern science, providing penetrating looks at everything from Turing computability and Godel's incompleteness, via Schrodinger's Cat and the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb-testing problem, to detailed microbiology. Of particular interest is Penrose's extensive examination of quantum mechanics, which introduces some new ideas that differ markedly from those advanced in The Emperor's New Mind, especially concerning the mysterious interface where classical and quantum physics meet. But perhaps the most interesting wrinkle in Shadows of the Mind is Penrose's excursion into microbiology, where he examines cytoskeletons and microtubules, minute substructures lying dee
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A visionary glimpse of the possible future of science by one of the world's leading physicists. Penrose points toward a new science that may eventually explain the physical basis of the mind--and introduces new ideas on the mysterious interface where classical and quantum physics meet.
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A BOOK FOR SERIOUS THINKERS
-- Dr. Riccardo Venturelli, I am an engineer involved with R&D., October 8, 2001
Also Recommended: THE EPMEROR'S NEW MIND ( R.PENROSE ), THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE ( BRIAN GREEN ) , BLACK HOLES AND TIME WARPS ( KIP THORNE ) .
| |  | | | | Notes to the reader | | | Prologue | 1 | | Pt. I | Why We Need New Physics to Understand the Mind: The Non-Computability of Conscious Thought | | | 1 | Consciousness and computation | 7 | | 2 | The Godelian case | 64 | | 3 | The case for non-computability in mathematical thought | 127 | | 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? | 213 | | 5 | Structure of the quantum world | 237 | | 6 | Quantum theory and reality | 307 | | 7 | Quantum theory and the brain | 348 | | 8 | Implications? | 393 | | Epilogue | 423 | | Bibliography | 425 | | Index | 447 |
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