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

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

by Roger Penrose (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

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Synopsis

For many decades, the proponents of 'artificial intelligence' have maintained that computers will soon be able to do everything that a human can do. In his bestselling work of popular science, Sir Roger Penrose takes us on a fascinating roller-coaster ride through the basic principles of physics, cosmology, mathematics, and philosophy to show that human thinking can never be emulated by a machine.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 640
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 04 Mar 1999
ISBN 10: 0192861980
ISBN 13: 9780192861986
Book Overview: Winner of the 1990 Science Book Prize.

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perhaps the most engaging and creative tour of modern physics that has ever been written Sunday Times
Author Bio
Sir Roger Penrose is Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford. He is the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the 1988 Wolf Prize for Physics which he shared with Stephen Hawking for their joint contribution to our understanding of the universe. His other books are Spinors and Space Time: Vol 1: Two-Spinor Calculus and Relativistic Fields (CUP, 1987); Vol 2: Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry (both with Wolfgang Rindler, CUP, 1986), Shadows of the Mind (OUP, 1994), The Nature of Space and Time (with Stephen Hawking, Princeton University Press, 1996), and The Large, the Small and the Human Mind (CUP, 1997).