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

Roger Penrose

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Publication Date:

2002

Number of Pages:

640

Format:

Paperback

Price:

18.95

ISBN:

0192861980

Category:

General

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Table of Contents

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Prologue; 1. Can a computer have a mind?; 2. Algorithms and Turing Machines; 3. Mathematics and Reality; 4. Truth, Proof, and Insight; 5. The Classical World; 6. Quantum Magic and Quantum Mystery; 7. Cosmology and the Arrow of Time; 8. In Search of Quantum Gravity; 9. Real brains and Model Brains; 10. Where Lies the Physics of the Mind?; Epilogue; References; Index.

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Surveys of Mathematics