In his bestselling work of popular science, Sir Roger Penrose takes us on a fascinating tour through the basic principles of physics, cosmology, mathematics, and philosophy to show that human thinking can never be emulated by a machine.
For many decades, the proponents of `artificial intelligence' have maintained that computers will soon be able to do everything that a human can do. In his bestselling work of popular science, Sir Roger Penrose takes us on a fascinating tour through the basic principles of physics, cosmology, mathematics, and philosophy to show that human thinking can never be emulated by a machine.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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