by RogerPenrose (Author)
Shadows of the Mind is a profound exploration of what modern physics has to tell us about the mind, and a visionary description of what a new physics - one that is adequate to account for our extraordinary brain - might look like. It is also a bold speculation on the biological process that makes consciousness what it is. In this illuminating book Penrose provides powerful arguments to support his conclusion that there is something in the conscious activity of the brain that transcends computation - and will find no explanation in terms of present-day science.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Edition: New Edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07 Sep 1995
ISBN 10: 0099582112
ISBN 13: 9780099582113
Book Overview: By the author of The Emperor's New Mind 'One of the most important works of the second half of the twentieth-century' The Times