The Large, the Small and the Human Mind,9780521785723

The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780521785723
ISBN10: 0521785723
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-04-28
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Roger Penrose's views on the large-scale physics of the Universe, the small-scale world of quantum physics and the physics of the mind are controversial and widely discussed. This book is a fascinating and accessible summary of Roger Penrose's current thinking on those areas of physics in which he feels there are major unresolved problems. It is also a stimulating introduction to the radically new concepts that he believes will be fruitful in understanding the workings of the brain and the nature of the human mind.

Table of Contents

Picture credits viii
Notes on the Contributors ix
Foreword xi
Malcolm Longair
Preface to the Canto edition xix
Space-time and Cosmology
1(49)
The Mysteries of Quantum Physics
50(43)
Physics and the Mind
93(51)
On Mentality, Quantum Mechanics and the Actualization of Potentialities
144(17)
Abner Shimony
Why Physics?
161(8)
Nancy Cartwright
The Objections of an Unashamed Reductionist
169(4)
Stephen Hawking
Response
173(13)
Roger Penrose
Appendix 1 Goodstein's Theorem and Mathematical Thinking 186(7)
Appendix 2 Experiments to Test Gravitationally Induced State Reduction 193

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