Roger Penrose

Shadows of the Mind

A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness

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Produktbeschreibung

The bestselling author of The Emperor's New Mind offers another exhilarating look at modern science as he mounts an even more powerful attack on artifical intelligence. Shadows of the Mind points the way to a new science, one that may eventually explain the physical basis of the human mind. 49 illustrations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 673g
• ISBN-13: 9780195106466
• ISBN-10: 0195106466
• Artikelnr.: 22436178

Autorenporträt

Roger Penrose is the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematic at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The 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.

Rezensionen

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