| Reviews |
| - 'perhaps the most engaging and creative tour of modern physics that has ever been written' - Sunday Times
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| Description | | - * With a new Preface by the author
| | 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
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| Contents |
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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| Authors, editors,
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Roger Penrose, Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University
With a foreword by Martin Gardner
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