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- To illuminate what he believes this “something” might be, and to suggest where a new physics must proceed so that we may understand it, Penrose cuts a wide swathe through modern science, providing penetrating looks at everything from Turing machines (computers programmed from artificial intelligence) to the implications of Godel’s theorem maintaining that conscious thinking must indeed involve ingredients that cannot adequately be stimulated by mere computation.
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Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness is a 1994 book by mathematical physicist Roger Penrose that serves as a followup to his 1989 book The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics.
- Peter Hilton, Roger Penrose
- 1994
Aug 22, 1996 · But perhaps the most interesting wrinkle in Shadows of the Mind is Penrose’s excursion into microbiology, where he examines cytoskeletons and microtubules, minute substructures lying deep within the brain’s neurons.
- Roger Penrose
Penrose’s book Shadows of the Mind — a grand tour of computation, consciousness, algorithms, quantum theory and the brain — is, for me, still the most thrilling introduction to AI and its ...
[Penrose] . . . examines cytoskeletons and microtubles, minute substructures lying deep within the brain's neurons. (He argues that microtubles—not neurons—may indeed be the basic units of the brain, which, if nothing else, would dramatically increase the brain's computational power.)
Aug 22, 1996 · Of particular interest is Penrose's extensive examination of quantum mechanics, which introduces some new ideas that differ markedly from those advanced in The Emperor's New Mind, especially concerning the mysterious interface where classical and quantum physics meet.
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- Peter Hilton, Roger Penrose
- $23.99
- Oxford University Press
Jan 1, 2001 · But perhaps the most interesting wrinkle in Shadows of the Mind is Penrose's excursion into microbiology, where he examines cytoskeletons and microtubules, minute substructures lying deep within the brain's neurons.
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 – something that can’t be explained by present-day science.
