by Roger Penrose · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483461174
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«La nueva mente del emperador» is the popular science essay by Roger Penrose, published by Debolsillo in paperback (696 pages, in Spanish).
Roger Penrose argues that there are facets of human thought that no computer will ever be able to emulate. To support this, he reviews the Turing machine, Gödel's theorem, quantum mechanics, black holes and the structure of the brain, and calls into question the most optimistic claims of artificial intelligence.
The work was originally published in 1989 under the title The Emperor's New Mind. This Spanish edition, translated by Javier García Sanz, is part of the Essay | Science collection (no. 171).
A book for readers interested in popular science, the philosophy of mind and the debate on artificial intelligence.
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.
