The Emperor's New Mind

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The Emperor's New Mind is a 1989 popular science book by mathematical physicist Roger Penrose that explores the nature of consciousness, computation, and physics while arguing that human thought cannot be fully replicated by algorithms.

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instanceOf book
popular science book
author Roger Penrose
awarded Royal Society Science Book Prize
awardYear 1990
centralClaim human consciousness involves non-computable processes
human understanding cannot be fully captured by algorithmic computation
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticizes strong AI thesis
view that mind is entirely algorithmic
followedBy Shadows of the Mind
genre non-fiction
popular science
hasPart discussion of Gödel's theorem
discussion of Turing computability
discussion of artificial intelligence
discussion of black holes
discussion of consciousness
discussion of entropy and the second law of thermodynamics
discussion of general relativity
discussion of quantum theory
discussion of time asymmetry
influenced debates on strong artificial intelligence
discussions of quantum consciousness
philosophy of artificial intelligence
inSeries Penrose's works on mind and physics
language English
mainSubject Gödel's incompleteness theorems
Turing machine
surface form: Turing machines

artificial intelligence
computability theory
computation
consciousness
cosmology
mathematical physics
non-algorithmic aspects of mind
philosophy of mind
physics
quantum mechanics
notableFor argument for non-computability of human thought
interdisciplinary treatment of physics, mathematics, and mind
pageCount approximately 480
proposes link between quantum physics and consciousness
publicationYear 1989
publisher Oxford University Press
targetAudience general readers interested in science
students of physics and philosophy

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Roger Penrose authorOf The Emperor's New Mind
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The Large, the Small and the Human Mind relatedWork The Emperor's New Mind
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