Shadows of the mind : a search for the missing science of consciousness
Shadows of the mind : a search for the missing science of consciousness
by Roger Penrose
- London Vintage 1995.
- 457
`One of the most important works...of the twentieth century' The TimesShadows 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.
Consciousness and computation --
The Gödelian case --
The case for non-computability in mathematical thought --
The quest for a non-computational physics of mind --
Structure of the quantum world --
Quantum theory and reality --
Quantum theory and the brain --
Implications?
0099582112 9780099582113
Quantum theory
Thought and thinking
Physics--Philosophy
530.01 R63 S / 23154
`One of the most important works...of the twentieth century' The TimesShadows 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.
Consciousness and computation --
The Gödelian case --
The case for non-computability in mathematical thought --
The quest for a non-computational physics of mind --
Structure of the quantum world --
Quantum theory and reality --
Quantum theory and the brain --
Implications?
0099582112 9780099582113
Quantum theory
Thought and thinking
Physics--Philosophy
530.01 R63 S / 23154