Shadows Of The Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness

Roger Penrose

ISBN 10: 0099582112 / ISBN 13: 9780099582113

Editore: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, London, 1995

One of the most important worksof the twentieth century The Times Shadows of the Mind is a profound exploration of what modern physics has to tell us about the human mind. 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 something that cant be explained by present-day science. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Codice articolo GOR001172853

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"Una delle opere più importanti... del ventesimo secolo" The Times Shadows of the Mind è un'esplorazione approfondita di ciò che la fisica moderna ha da dirci sulla mente umana. Una descrizione visionaria di come potrebbe apparire una nuova fisica, adeguata a spiegare il nostro straordinario cervello. È anche un'audace speculazione sul processo biologico che rende la coscienza ciò che è. In questo libro illuminante Penrose fornisce potenti argomenti a sostegno della sua conclusione che c'è qualcosa nell'attività cosciente del cervello che trascende il calcolo, qualcosa che non può essere spiegato dalla scienza odierna.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Roger Penrose is one the world's foremost theoretical physicists, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020. He has won numerous other prizes, including the Albert Einstein Medal, for his fundamental contributions to general relativity and cosmology.

He is the bestselling author of The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe and Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe. His other books include Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe, The Emperor's New Mind, Shadows of the Mind and, with Stephen Hawking, The Nature of Space and Time. He is the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Oxford, and lives in Oxford.

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Titolo: Shadows Of The Mind: A Search for the ...
Casa editrice: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, London
Data di pubblicazione: 1995
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good