The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics

ISBN-13:	9780198784920
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/01/2016
Series:	Oxford Landmark Science
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	640
Sales rank:	73,168
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.60(d)

In The Emporer's New Mind, eminent physicist Roger Penrose argues that there are facets of human thinking, of human imagination, that can never be emulated by a machine. Exploring a dazzling array of topics--complex numbers, black holes, entropy, quasicrystals, the structure of the brain, and the physical processes of consciousness--Penrose demonstrates that laws even more wondrously complex than those of quantum mechanics are essential for the operation of a mind.