The emperor's new mind: concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics [Revised impression, second edition?] 9780198784920, 0198784929, 978-0-19-286198-6

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The emperor's new mind: concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics [Revised impression, second edition?]
 9780198784920, 0198784929, 978-0-19-286198-6

Table of contents :
Content: Prologue 1: Can a Computer Have a Mind? 2: Algorithms and Turing Machines 3: Mathematics and Reality 4: Truth, Proof, and Insight 5: The Classical World 6: Quantum Magic and Quantum Mystery 7: Cosmology and the Arrow of Time 8: In Search of Quantum Gravity 9: Real Brains and Model Brains 10: Where Lies the Physics of the Mind? Epilogue References Index

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