The Emperor's New Mind
Penrose's ambitious work argues against strong AI, proposing that consciousness involves quantum processes that cannot be computationally simulated. Through physics, mathematics, and philosophy, it explores mind, computation, and the nature of understanding. The work challenges computational theories of mind and offers a quantum approach to consciousness.
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