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?

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Quantum theory
Thought and thinking
Physics--Philosophy

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