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Author Penrose, Roger.

Title Shadows of the mind : a search for the missing science of consciousness / Roger Penrose.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  006.3 P386s    ---  Available
Description xvi, 457 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-445) and index.
Contents Consciousness and computation -- The Godelian case -- The case for non-computability in mathematical thought -- The quest for a non-computational physics of mind -- Structure of the quantum world --Quantum theory and reality -- Quantum theory and the brain -- Implications?
Subject Artificial intelligence.
Thought and thinking.
Godel's theorem.
Quantum theory.
Physics -- Philosophy.
ISBN 0198539789 : L.16.95 ($24.50 U.S.)

 
    
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