Roger Penrose's views on the large-scale physics of the Universe, the small-scale world of quantum physics and the physics of the mind are controversial and widely discussed. This book is a fascinating and accessible summary of Roger Penrose's current thinking on those areas of physics in which he feels there are major unresolved problems. It is also a stimulating introduction to the radically new concepts that he believes will be fruitful in understanding the workings of the brain and the nature of the human mind.
Author(s): Roger Penrose, Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright, Stephen Hawking, Malcolm Longair (ed.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 224
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Notes on the Contributors
Picture Credits
Foreword by Malcolm Longair
1. Space-time and Cosmology
2. The Mysteries of Quantum Physics
3. Physics and the Mind
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. Roger Penrose Responds
Appendix 1: Goodstein's Theorem and Mathematical Thinking
Appendix 2: Experiments to Test Gravitationally Induced State Reduction
