Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness by Roger Penrose ADVENTURE international bestseller softcover

international bestseller softcover

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A counterintuitive self-help book that argues life's struggles give it meaning and rejects mindless positivity in favor of practical wisdom

Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness by Roger Penrose ADVENTURE international bestseller softcoverSecondhand paperback very good condition. Published by Oxford University Press, 1994. In Shadows of the Mind, Roger Penrose argues that human consciousness transcends computational processes, using Gdel's incompleteness theorem to challenge the idea that minds can be fully simulated by computers. He proposes that consciousness arises from non computable physical processes in the brain, potentially involving quantum effects in microtubules as part of