by Roger Penrose · GRIJALBO-MONDADORI · tapa dura · ISBN 9788425327964
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«La nueva mente del emperador» is Roger Penrose's popular science essay, published by Grijalbo-Mondadori in hardback (597 pages, in Spanish).
Roger Penrose argues that there are facets of human thought that no computer will be able to replicate. To this end, he reviews the Turing machine, the brain, Gödel's theorem, black and white holes, Hawking radiation, entropy and quantum mechanics, in a reflection on the relationship between mind and body.
The Spanish-language edition, published in 1991, features a translation by Javier García Sanz and falls within the areas of philosophy and science.
For readers interested in philosophy, cognitive science, artificial intelligence and debates on consciousness.
Sir Roger Penrose is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, and philosopher of science. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and an honorary fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and University College London. He shared the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems, and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity". He proposed the Penrose triangle and corresponded with M. C. Escher, influencing his Waterfall and Ascending and Descending. Penrose's eponymous aperiodic tiling presaged the discovery of quasicrystals by Dan Shechtman.
