Roger Penrose: Shadows Of The Mind, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Shadows Of The Mind
- A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness
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- Publisher:
- Vintage Publishing, 09/1995
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780099582113
- Item number:
- 5072016
- Volume:
- 480 Pages
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 1995
- Weight:
- 381 g
- Format:
- 199 x 132 mm
- Thickness:
- 40 mm
- Release date:
- 7.9.1995
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Short description
By the author of The Emperor's New Mind
'One of the most important works of the second half of the twentieth-century' The Times
Description
Shadows of the Mind is a profound exploration of what modern physics has to tell us about the mind, and a visionary description of what a new physics - one that is adequate to account for our extraordinary brain - might look like. It is also a bold speculation on the biological process that makes consciousness what it is.
In this illuminating book Penrose 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.
Review
"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
Blurb
'One of the most important works...of the twentieth century' The Times
Shadows of the Mind is a profound exploration of what modern physics has to tell us about the human mind.
A visionary description of what a new physics - one that is adequate to account for our extraordinary brain - might look like. It is also a bold speculation on the biological process that makes consciousness what it is.
In this illuminating book Penrose provides powerful arguments to support his conclusion that there is something in the conscious activity of the brain that transcends computation - something that can't be explained by present-day science.
Biography
Sir Roger Penrose ist Rouse-Ball-Professor für Mathematik an der Universität Oxford und Mitglied der Royal Society. Für seine wissenschaftlichen Beiträge zur Kosmologie (insbesondere zur Theorie der Schwarzen Löcher) und zur Parkettierungstheorie (in die er die nach ihm benannte nicht-periodische Parkettierung der Ebene einführte) erhielt er zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Auszeichnungen und den Adelstitel der Britischen Krone.
