by Roger Penrose · Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439703402
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
In 'The Emperor's New Mind', Roger Penrose explores the relationship between physics, computation, and human consciousness. Penrose argues that the human mind has capabilities that go beyond what any computer could achieve, challenging the vision of strong artificial intelligence. This book invites reflection on the nature of consciousness and the limits of computation.
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.
