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