Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness

Penrose, Roger Sir

ISBN 10: 0198539789 / ISBN 13: 9780198539780

Verlag: Oxford University Press, New York, 1994

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1st Edition. SIGNED (inscribed) by author on a bookplate affixed to tiltle page. $25.00 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. 457 pages. (Bonus: Comes with a unsigned softcover copy of Penrose-Stephen Hawking book "The Nature of Space and Time). NOTE: No international orders for this item. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 046208

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Titel: Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the ...

Verlag: Oxford University Press, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1994

Einband: Hard Cover

Zustand: Near Fine +

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Signiert: Signed by Author

Auflage: 1. Auflage

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Inhaltsangabe:

The motivation for this book arose, in part, from a need for detailed replies to a number of queries and criticisms from readers of the author's previous book, The Emperor's New Mind , many of whom have gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid the conclusion that there must be something non-computational involved in thinking. Penrose searches for a means, within the constraints of the hard facts of science, whereby a scientifically describable brain might be able to perform the needed non-computational actions. He develops the argument of how quantum effects might have a fundamental relevance to consciousness and to non-computable brain action. Some of the more startling implications of this are based on new scientific information which is discussed in detail, leading to one of the most extraordinary and fundamental implications of quantum theory: quantum entanglement, the process by which the behaviour of `classically' described systems is explicable only in quantum mechanical terms. There is a thorough examination of the implications of G "odel's theorem maintaining that conscious thinking must indeed involve ingredients that cannot adequately be simulated by mere computation. No prior knowledge of quantum theory on the part of the reader is assumed. This book is intended for the general reader; physicists, computer scientists, philosophers, etc.

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About the Author:
Roger Penrose is the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He is the author ofThe Emperor's New Mind, which was a New York Times bestseller and was awarded the UK's 1990 COPUS Prize for science writing. In 1988, he received the internationally prestigious Wolf Prize for physics, shared with Stephen Hawking, for their joint contribution to our understanding of the universe.