The large, the small and the human mind

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The large, the small and the human mind

Roger Penrose, with Abner Shimony ... [et al.] ; edited by Malcolm Longair

Cambridge University Press, c1997

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In this book, Roger Penrose presents a masterly summary of those areas of physics in which he feels there are major unsolved problems. These ideas are then challenged by three distinguished experts from different backgrounds - Abner Shimony and Nancy Cartwright as Philosophers of science and Stephen Hawking as a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Finally, Roger Penrose responds to their thought-provoking criticisms. This paperback edition has been updated to include a striking and easily accessible example of Goedel's theorem, and a ground-breaking proposal for a physical experiment designed to test some of Penrose's most novel ideas about quantum mechanics. Penrose's enthusiasm, insight and good humour shine through this accessible, illuminating, and brilliant account of 21st-century theoretical physics.

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  • Preface Malcolm Longair
  • 1. Space-time and cosmology Roger Penrose
  • 2. The mysteries of quantum physics Roger Penrose
  • 3. Physics and the mind Roger Penrose
  • 4. On mentality, quantum mechanics and the actualization of potentialities Abner Shimony
  • 5. Why physics? Nancy Cartwright
  • 6. The objections of an unashamed reductionist Stephen Hawking
  • 7. Reply Roger Penrose
  • Appendix I: a new example of Goedel's theorem
  • Appendix II: proposal for a physical experiment to test quantum state reduction.

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