Title The large, the small, and the human mind / Roger Penrose ... [and others] ; edited by Malcolm Longair

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997

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Description xviii, 185 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents Foreword / Malcolm Longair -- Ch. 1. Space-time and Cosmology -- Ch. 2. The Mysteries of Quantum Physics -- Ch. 3. Physics and the Mind -- Ch. 4. On Mentality, Quantum Mechanics and the Actualization of Potentialities / Abner Shimony -- Ch. 5. Why Physics? / Nancy Cartwright -- Ch. 6. The Objections of an Unashamed Reductionist / Stephen Hawking -- Ch. 7. Response by Roger Penrose Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Shimony, Abner. Cartwright, Nancy. Artificial intelligence. Thought and thinking. Physics -- Philosophy. Gödel's theorem. Quantum theory. Author Penrose, Roger. Longair, Malcolm S., 1941- LC no. 96035837 ISBN 0521563305 hardback

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