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It is time to realise and be convinced that using the very simplequantum mechanical models one can realise results in excellent agreementwith experiments. Tackles the question of consciousness and its relations to godel's theorems, modern physics and ... Read More
Sir roger penrose (born 1931), is an english mathematical physicist and philosopher. He is emeritus professor of mathematics at the university of oxford, and emeritus fellow of wadham college. Penrose deserves the accolades for tackling this difficult... Read More
Roger penrose's new book, the emperor's new mind, is published by simon & schuster.
He writes in a brilliant way, providing great detail and thoroughness. He hints at an approach to the subject of consciousness, the great puzzle that science has heretofore been unable to explain.
Penrose discusses several lines of argument to close the gap. These are close to popular science but evolve from a fundamental picture of the subject, as opposed to the storyboard type of discourse that penrose writes.
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The book is very vague (except chapters on goedel theorem, where penrose at least stays within his area of expertise). Also it reads more like a religious tract where the author has a preconception and would try anything and everything to confirm it. ... Read More
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Even if i cannot always agree or comprehend with the author i consider this book as a brilliant achievement
I am very much satisfied buying this book from amazon
Of our very perceptions of mathematical truth that is with the apparent way in which through mental contemplation we seem to be... Read More
Professor penrose suggests that physicists may be in a better position to comprehend how matter really behaves than biologists ... Read More
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Godels theorem is also dealt with lucidly
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Its also a quest of one of our primary needsthe knowledge of our selves
To methe best science book i ever read
In doing so we have a marvellous survey of classical and modern physics including the mysteries of the quantum world
It is also significantly more technical in places than the predecessor
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Penrose however has replied quite well to many criticisms see psyche an electronic journal on consciousness and i think it is premature to pass final judgement
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Unfortunately like so many others a poor mathematical background makes for a less than adequate grasp of the more difficult equations that are found in physics
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Firstly to attempt to address various criticisms of the central argument of the previous book and then to develop some new ones
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An example of this sort of discussion is whether any capability of a robot to learn would undo any of the robot restrictions deduced in his basic argument
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After all learning human or robotic will imply going beyond previous restrictions and being aware of new facts
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So there is a subtle argument needed to continue to show that despite this humans will come out on top
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For that we need a model of cognition sufficiently general the turing machine model is available and generally considered to be that model there are no obvious rivals
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If the answer is yes we would conclude also robots could have minds
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