The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Oxford Landmark Science) 

Author: Roger Penrose

Paperback: 640 pages

Publisher: OUP Oxford ; Revised edition ( 2016-04-28 )

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0198784929

ISBN-13: 978-0198784920

Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 3.8 x 12.7 cm

本书对电脑科学、数学、物理学、宇宙学、神经和精神科学以及哲学进行了广泛、深入浅出的讨论，体现了作者向哲学上最大问题——“精神-身体关系”挑战的大无畏精神。书中充满了天才般的猜测，贯穿着探索真理的灵感和激情。这是一本这者的精心杰作，它阐释科学论题的新方式令人眼前为之一亮。这本巨著重新衡量相对论和量子理论。作者提出他对现代物理及人工智能的新看法，建议人们必须彻底改变时间与空间的观念。本书曾在《纽约时报》的畅销书排行榜上连续许多星期。作者罗杰·彭罗斯：英国数学物理学家，从1973年起担任牛津大学的罗斯·波勒数学教授，是全世界公认的最博学和最有创见的科学家、思想家、哲学家。

内容简介

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. Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.

Review

perhaps the most engaging and creative tour of modern physics that has ever been written (Sunday Times)

A superb book... provocative and absorbing (Physics Today)

A bold, brilliant, groundbreaking work... When Mr Penrose talks, scientists listen (New York Time Book Review)

. . One cannot imagine a more revealing self-portrait than this enchanting, tantalising book... Roger Penrose reveals himself as an eloquent protagonist, not only of the wonders of mathematics, but also of the uniqueness of people. (Nature)

I fail to see how anybody can remain unmoved by the book's central theme, which concerns the nature of human beings... His style is relaxed and entertaining, There are nuggets on almost every page. (Financial Times)

作者简介

Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. He is known for his work in mathematical physics, in particular for his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. His books include Shadows Of The Mind ( Vintage, 1995); The Road to Reality (Vintage, 2006); and The Nature of Space and Time, co-authored with Stephen Hawking (Princeton University Press, 2015). He has received several prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for their contribution to our understanding of the universe.