The emperor's new mind
Subtitle: concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics
By: Roger Penrose ; foreword by Martin Gardner.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Thought and thinking; Physics -- Philosophy; Science -- Philosophy; Computers
Description: Advances the theory that despite burgeoning computer technologies, there will remain facets of human thinking that cannot be emulated by a machine.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [452]-460.

Includes index.

Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, 1990.
Table of contents: title: Can a computer have a mind?; title: Algorithms and turing machines; title: Mathematics and reality; title: Truth, proof, and insight; title: The classical world; title: Quantum magic and quantum mystery; title: Cosmology and the arrow of time; title: In search of quantum gravity; title: Real brains and model brains; title: Where lies the physics of mind?