Shadow of the mind
Shadows of the mind: Towards a new physics of consciousness (OT: Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness ) is a 1994 published book of mathematical physicist Roger Penrose and serves as a successor to his 1989 published book The Emperor's New Mind : Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics . The German translation by Anita Ehlers was published in 1995.
Penrose claims in it:
- Human consciousness cannot be represented algorithmically, and therefore not by a Turing machine , let alone by means of a real digital computer .
- Quantum mechanics would play an important role in human consciousness. In particular, he assumes that microtubules within neurons could assume a superposition .
The Gödel's incompleteness theorem would argue that there are certain statements in formal systems whose consistency can see it is clearly the mathematician correct, but which can not be formally proven to be consistent. Penrose concludes from this that humans - just as mathematicians are - have a consciousness that machines cannot simulate.
swell
- Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness, book summary by William Faris ( English ; PDF; 138 kB)
- ↑ “The first half of the book centers on the Gödel Incompleteness Theorem, which says that for every sufficiently strong formal system there are true sentences that cannot be proved. The fact that mathematicians can understand the implications of this theorem is to be taken as evidence that conscious awareness cannot be computationally simulated. " William Faris
literature
- Roger Penrose: Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness . Vintage Books, October 3, 1995, ISBN 9780099582113
- German edition: Schatten des Geistes: Ways to a new physics of consciousness , Spectrum Akad. Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin / Oxford, 1995, ISBN 3-86025-260-7