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When i first encountered the book in my college library i brushed it aside as i had heard of roger penrose as a famous theoretical cosmologist and disingenuousness of him writing a popular science book put me off from reading it martin gardner in preface also states this

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And also that human mind is no algorithmic computer

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Second and fourth chapters are little demanding for non specialists

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Penrose will come across as an individual with strong belief in the methods of science but as the boy in the preface is unafraid to ask some uncomfortable questions at the current state of thinking related to some of the most fundamental human interest conundrums

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I have observed that this book being sold in even some very ordinary book stalls which itself attests to the continued popularity of the classic

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The basic premise is that contrary to what ai supporters have been insisting for decades the idea that any machine could somehow become capable of actual thinking is a completely unfounded concept based on flawed reasoning

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Penroses main argument is that all computers must necessarily run according to algorithms