Title: SHADOWS OF THE MIND : A SEARCH FOR THE MISSING SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0099582112
ISBN 13: 9780099582113
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Brand New

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Shadows of the mind is a profound exploration of what modern physics has to tell us about the mind, and a visionary description of what a new physics - one that is adequate to account for our extraordinary brain - might look like it is also a bold speculation on the biological process that makes consciousness what it is in this illuminating book penrose provides powerful arguments to support his conclusion that there is something in the conscious activity of the brain that transcends computation - and will find no explanation in terms of present-day science

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Roger Penrose is the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The 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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