The Emperor's New Mind : Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics

Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics Roger Penrose
Oxford University Press, USA
 9780198784920
0-19-878492-9

For many decades, the proponents of `artificial intelligence' have maintained that computers will soon be able to do everything that a human can do. In his bestselling work of popular science, Sir Roger.

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Penrose takes us on a fascinating tour through the basic principles of physics, cosmology, mathematics, and philosophy to show that human thinking can never be emulated by a machine. Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.