by Roger Penrose · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439717867
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«La nueva mente del emperador» is Roger Penrose's popular science essay, published by Mondadori in paperback (597 pages, in Spanish).
Roger Penrose examines the foundations of computing and physics to argue that human consciousness cannot be emulated by a digital machine. The book covers Gödel's theorem, the limits of artificial intelligence, relativity and quantum mechanics, and raises the role of physical laws in thought.
This 1991 Spanish edition belongs to the Biblioteca Mondadori collection and is Javier García Sanz's translation of the original The Emperor's New Mind (1989).
The work is aimed at readers interested in popular science, computing, quantum physics and the philosophy of mind.
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.
