The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
by:
Roger Penrose (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780099771708 (0099771705)
Publish date: February 27th 1994
Publisher: Random House UK Distribution
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Penrose certainly has a generous idea of his readers' mathematical ability. It's a kind of running joke among Penrose-fans: he always starts his books by saying you'll find it tough going if you haven't got a 12th Year (in Portugal)/GCSE (in the UK) in math, but that he'll explain it as he goes if y...
Tabling this one for now... doesn't come in Kindle edition, and that's where I'm reading from lately.
I suggested that one could imagine Albertine's gang in A L'Ombre Des Jeunes Filles En Fleurs as a kind of wave function of girls (see my review), and that made me think of The Emperor's New Mind. Given that it's all about quantum mechanics, I suppose it's appropriate that I have two different and co...
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