by Roger Penrose · Editorial Crítica · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498923247
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In 'Shadows of the Mind', Roger Penrose embarks on the ambitious task of scientifically unraveling the human mind. Penrose argues that consciousness cannot be reduced to simple computational models, challenging the notion that conscious mentality operates like a computer. Instead, he proposes that understanding transcends mere computation and seeks to discover how consciousness emerges from matter, space, and time. Penrose suggests that, although neural signals can be explained by classical physics, the connections between neurons are controlled at a deeper level, at the quantum/classical boundary, where the physical basis of mind and free will resides.
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.
