The emperor's new mind
- New York Oxford University Press 1999
- xxix, 602p.
Table of Contents
1. Can a computer have a mind? 2. Algorithms and Turing Machines 3. Mathematics and Reality 4. Truth, Proof, and Insight 5. The Classical World 6. Quantum Magic and Quantum Mystery 7. Cosmology and the Arrow of Time 8. In Search of Quantum Gravity 9. Real Brains and Model Brains 10. Where Lies the Physics of the Mind?
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For many decades, the proponents of `artificial intelligence' have maintained that computers will soon be able to do everything that a human can do. In his bestselling work of popular science, Sir Roger Penrose takes us on a fascinating tour through the basic principles of physics, cosmology, mathematics, and philosophy to show that human thinking can never be emulated by a machine.
9780192861986
Artificial intelligence, Thought and thinking, Physics -- Philosophy