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Shadows of the Mind

A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness

Shadows of the Mind( )
Author: Penrose, Roger
ISBN:978-0-19-510646-6
Publication Date:Aug 1996
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $34.99
Book Description:

A New York Times bestseller when it appeared in 1989, Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind was universally hailed as a marvelous survey of modern physics as well as a brilliant reflection on the human mind, offering a new perspective on the scientific landscape and a visionary glimpse of the possible future of science. Now, in Shadows of the Mind, Penrose offers another exhilarating look at modern science as he mounts an even more powerful attack on artificial intelligence. But...
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Book Details
Pages:480
Detailed Subjects: Computers / Artificial Intelligence / General
Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Mathematics / Logic
Science / Physics / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):9.22 x 6.14 x 0.97 Inches
Book Weight:1.475 Pounds
Author Biography
Penrose, Roger (Author)
Born in England, the son of a geneticist, Roger Penrose received a Ph.D. in 1957 from Cambridge University. Penrose then became a professor of applied mathematics at Birkbeck College in 1966 and a Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University in 1973.

Penrose, a mathematician and theoretical physicist, has done much to elucidate the fundamental properties of black holes. With Stephen Hawking, Penrose proved a theorem of Albert Einstein's general relativity, asserting that at the center of a black hole there must evolve a "space-time singularity" of zero volume and infinite density, in which the current laws of physics do not apply. He also proposed the hypothesis of "cosmic censorship," which claims that such singularities must possess an event horizon.

In 1969 Penrose described a process for the extraction of energy from a black hole, as well as how rotational energy of the black hole is transferred to a particle outside the hole. In addition, Penrose has done much to develop the mathematics needed to unite general relativity, which deals with the gravitational interactions of matter, and quantum mechanics, which describes all other interactions.

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