Title Shadows of the mind : a search for the missing science of consciousness / Roger Penrose

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994

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Description xvi, 457 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents Pt. I. Why We Need New Physics to Understand the Mind: The Non-Computability of Conscious Thought. 1. Consciousness and computation. 2. The Godelian case. 3. The case for non-computability in mathematical thought -- Pt. II. What New Physics We Need to Understand the Mind: The Quest for a Non-Computational Physics of Mind. 4. Does mind have a place in classical physics? 5. Structure of the quantum world. 6. Quantum theory and reality. 7. Quantum theory and the brain. 8. Implications? Analysis Artificial intelligence Related to Mind Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Artificial intelligence. Consciousness. Gödel's theorem. Physics -- Philosophy. Quantum theory. Thought and thinking. LC no. 94012887 ISBN 0198539789

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