Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Roger Penrose, Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness. Oxford University Press, 1995. First edition, second impression, explicitly stated on the copyright page as "Reprinted 1995 (with corrections)" following the original 1994 publication. Blue hardcover boards with gilt lettering to spine. Clean and unmarked throughout, with a firm binding and clean page edges. Dust jacket is bright and complete, with light handling and minor edge wear. Penrose's major sequel to The Emperor's New Mind, developing his argument that human understanding and consciousness cannot be adequately accounted for by computational models alone. The book ranges across Gödel's incompleteness theorem, artificial intelligence and mathematical reasoning before turning to quantum mechanics and Penrose's proposals concerning non-computational physical processes in the brain, including his discussion of neuronal microtubules and the work of Stuart Hameroff. An important work in the modern debate concerning consciousness, computation, artificial intelligence and the relationship between physics and the mind.…
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- Title
- Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness
- Author
- Roger Penrose
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Oxford
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0198539789
- ISBN 13
- 9780198539780
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 2nd Printing
- Item weight
- 0.85 kilograms
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About the Author
About the Author:
Roger Penrose is the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He is the author ofThe Emperor's New Mind, which was a New York Times bestseller and was awarded the UK's 1990 COPUS Prize for science writing. In 1988, he received the internationally prestigious Wolf Prize for physics, shared with Stephen Hawking, for their joint contribution to our understanding of the universe.
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