
The Emperor's New Mind
Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
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Narrado por:
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Julian Elfer
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Roger Penrose
For decades, proponents of artificial intelligence have argued that computers will soon be doing everything that a human mind can do. Admittedly, computers now play chess at the grandmaster level, but do they understand the game as we do? Can a computer eventually do everything a human mind can do?
In this absorbing and frequently contentious book, Roger Penrose puts forward his view that there are some facets of human thinking that can never be emulated by a machine. The book's central concern is what philosophers call the "mind-body problem". Penrose examines what physics and mathematics can tell us about how the mind works, what they can't, and what we need to know to understand the physical processes of consciousness. He is among a growing number of physicists who think Einstein wasn't being stubborn when he said his "little finger" told him that quantum mechanics is incomplete, and he concludes that laws even deeper than quantum mechanics are essential for the operation of a mind. To support this contention, Penrose takes the listener on a dazzling tour that covers such topics as complex numbers, Turing machines, complexity theory, quantum mechanics, formal systems, Godel undecidability, phase spaces, Hilbert spaces, black holes, white holes, Hawking radiation, entropy, quasicrystals, and the structure of the brain.
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This is great news. Good Job Nobel Prize Winner!
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Suggest future editors consider supplying an accompanying PDF download for the equations, diagrams and illustrations as they are an essential part of the content necessary to understand the author’s ideas.
Excellent book, terrible adaption to audio book
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fascinating
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Not appropriate for an audio format.
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The rest of the book suggests that human intelligence is non-computable and AI will be unable to produce machines that feel and intuit. Some of these ideas have become dated some are interesting but I did not find any deeply compelling.
Nevertheless this book is has a lot of interesting information and ideas and was well worth the listen, but I would not strongly recommend the Audible version.
The narration was very good considering the very difficult material.
Good but Dated and Not Great on Audible
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I can't help but wonder why a mathematician didn't read a mathematician's book.
f(x) should be read "f OF x" and NOT "f open parenthesis x close parenthesis" This became ridiculously tedious. : (.
I wonder if the first half of the book I managed to hear did not included a whole hour of just hearing syntax.
I crave the material, and have ordered the physical book because it will be important to SEE the binary in order to digest it, rather than hear it. I'd like to SEE the equations and intuitively follow along. I couldn't keep order of the sequences in my head and it lost it's meaning and just became a thorn to get over.
Echoing others: get the book in paper.
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I strongly recommend obtaining a pdf in order to follow the more dense material. Mathematics that is fairly easy to follow when reading can be quite difficult to follow when listening. For example, something as simple as "(1 + 3 + (5 - 2))" is read as "open parenthesis one plus three plus open parenthesis five minus two close parenthesis close parenthesis". The narrator also does not seem to be comfortable reading mathematical notation, and so expressions like "f(x)" are read as "F open parenthesis X closed parenthesis" instead of just "F of X".
With that disclaimer, I strongly recommend the book. He does a fantastic job synthesizing computation theory, mathematical foundations, philosophy, and physics into a coherent view of the mind.
Wonderful, but PDF Recommended
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Get the Printed Book
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Worse, instead of reading (say) “f(x)” as“f of x,” it’s rendered as “f open parenthesis x close parenthesis,” suggesting the erudite-sounding reader missed out on math, or apprenticed as a typesetter.
This review may be premature— maybe skimming ahead to the material on psychophysics will justify my time with this book as a prelude to “Shadows of Mind” and later work.
Not read like the math it is.
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Listening is perhaps not the best way to experience it..need to see the symbols spelled out,.
Godel's thrm is sophistry and the crux of the book hangs in it..tenuously, if I'm any judge.
i was hoping for a stronger finish..hoping penrose would come up w something really compelling on consciousness. but i lost mine several times.
Do What?
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