The large, the small and the human mind
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The large, the small and the human mind
Cambridge University Press, c1997
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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