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  1. (1 other version)The emperor’s new mind.Roger Penrose - 1989 - Oxford University Press.
    Winner of the Wolf Prize for his contribution to our understanding of the universe, Penrose takes on the question of whether artificial intelligence will ever ...
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  2. Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness.Roger Penrose - 1994 - Oxford University Press.
    Presenting a look at the human mind's capacity while criticizing artificial intelligence, the author makes suggestions about classical and quantum physics and ..
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    The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics.Roger Penrose - 1999 - Oxford University Press.
    In his bestselling work of popular science, Sir Roger Penrose takes us on a fascinating roller-coaster ride through the basic principles of physics, cosmology, mathematics, and philosophy to show that human thinking can never be emulated by a machine.
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  4. The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, andthe Laws of Physics.Roger Penrose - 1989 - Science and Society 54 (4):484-487.
     
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    The Nature of Space and Time.Stephen Hawking & Roger Penrose - 2015 - Princeton University Press.
    Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of physics, be united in a single quantum theory of gravity? Two of the world's most famous physicists - Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose - disagree. Here they explain their positions in a work based on six lectures with a final (...)
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    The Large, the Small and the Human Mind.Roger Penrose - 1997 - Cambridge University Press.
    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...
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  7. Conscious events as orchestrated space-time selections.Stuart R. Hameroff & Roger Penrose - 1996 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 3 (1):36-53.
    What is consciousness? Some philosophers have contended that ‘qualia’, or an experiential medium from which consciousness is derived, exists as a fundamental component of reality. Whitehead, for example, described the universe as being comprised of ‘occasions of experience’. To examine this possibility scientifically, the very nature of physical reality must be re-examined. We must come to terms with the physics of space-time -- as is described by Einstein's general theory of relativity -- and its relation to the fundamental theory of (...)
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  8. The Large, the Small and the Human Mind.Roger Penrose - 1997 - Philosophy 73 (283):125-128.
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  9. Orchestrated reduction of quantum coherence in brain microtubules: A model for consciousness.Stuart R. Hameroff & Roger Penrose - 1996 - In Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak & Alwyn Scott (eds.), Toward a Science of Consciousness: The First Tucson Discussions and Debates. MIT Press.
  10. Precis of the emperor's new mind.Roger Penrose - 1990 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (4):643-705.
    The emperor's new mind (hereafter Emperor) is an attempt to put forward a scientific alternative to the viewpoint of according to which mental activity is merely the acting out of some algorithmic procedure. John Searle and other thinkers have likewise argued that mere calculation does not, of itself, evoke conscious mental attributes, such as understanding or intentionality, but they are still prepared to accept the action the brain, like that of any other physical object, could in principle be simulated by (...)
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    Fashion, faith, and fantasy in the new physics of the universe.Roger Penrose - 2016 - Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
    What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed physicist and best-selling author Roger Penrose argues that researchers working at the extreme frontiers of physics are just as susceptible to these forces as anyone else. In this provocative book, he argues that fashion, faith, and fantasy, while sometimes productive and even essential (...)
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  12. Quantum concepts in space and time.Roger Penrose & C. J. Isham (eds.) - 1986 - New York ;: Oxford University Press.
    Recent developments in quantum theory have focused attention on fundamental questions, in particular on whether it might be necessary to modify quantum mechanics to reconcile quantum gravity and general relativity. This book is based on a conference held in Oxford in the spring of 1984 to discuss quantum gravity. It brings together contributors who examine different aspects of the problem, including the experimental support for quantum mechanics, its strange and apparently paradoxical features, its underlying philosophy, and possible modifications to the (...)
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    Impossible objects: A special type of visual illusion.Lionel S. Penrose & Roger Penrose - 1958 - British Journal of Psychology 49 (1):31-33.
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  14. (1 other version)On the Gravitization of Quantum Mechanics 1: Quantum State Reduction.Roger Penrose - 2014 - Foundations of Physics 44 (5):557-575.
    This paper argues that the case for “gravitizing” quantum theory is at least as strong as that for quantizing gravity. Accordingly, the principles of general relativity must influence, and actually change, the very formalism of quantum mechanics. Most particularly, an “Einsteinian”, rather than a “Newtonian” treatment of the gravitational field should be adopted, in a quantum system, in order that the principle of equivalence be fully respected. This leads to an expectation that quantum superpositions of states involving a significant mass (...)
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    Gravity and State Vector Reduction.Roger Penrose - 1986 - In Roger Penrose & C. J. Isham (eds.), Quantum concepts in space and time. New York ;: Oxford University Press. pp. 129-146.
  16. What 'gaps'? Reply to Grush and Churchland.Roger Penrose & Stuart R. Hameroff - 1995 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 2 (2):98-111.
    Grush and Churchland (1995) attempt to address aspects of the proposal that we have been making concerning a possible physical mechanism underlying the phenomenon of consciousness. Unfortunately, they employ arguments that are highly misleading and, in some important respects, factually incorrect. Their article ‘Gaps in Penrose’s Toilings’ is addressed specifically at the writings of one of us (Penrose), but since the particular model they attack is one put forward by both of us (Hameroff and Penrose, 1995; 1996), it is appropriate (...)
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    Beyond the Doubting of a Shadow A Reply to Commentaries on Shadows of the Mind.Roger Penrose - 1995 - PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 2.
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  18. Beyond the doubting of a shadow.Roger Penrose - 1995 - PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 2:89-129.
  19. Orchestrated objective reduction of quantum coherence in brain microtubules: The "orch OR" model for consciousness.Roger Penrose & Stuart Hameroff - 1996 - Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 40:453-480.
    Features of consciousness difficult to understand in terms of conventional neuroscience have evoked application of quantum theory, which describes the fundamental behavior of matter and energy. In this paper we propose that aspects of quantum theory (e.g. quantum coherence) and of a newly proposed physical phenomenon of quantum wave function "self-collapse"(objective reduction: OR -Penrose, 1994) are essential for consciousness, and occur in cytoskeletal microtubules and other structures within each of the brain's neurons. The particular characteristics of microtubules suitable for quantum (...)
     
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  20. Godel, the Mind, and the Laws of Physics.Roger Penrose - 2011 - In Matthias Baaz (ed.), Kurt Gödel and the foundations of mathematics: horizons of truth. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 339.
    Gödel appears to have believed strongly that the human mind cannot be explained in terms of any kind of computational physics, but he remained cautious in formulating this belief as a rigorous consequence of his incompleteness theorems. In this chapter, I discuss a modification of standard Gödel-type logical arguments, these appearing to strengthen Gödel’s conclusions, and attempt to provide a persuasive case in support of his standpoint that the actions of the mind must transcend computation. It appears that Gödel did (...)
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    The nonalgorithmic mind.Roger Penrose - 1990 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (4):692-705.
  22. On understanding understanding.Roger Penrose - 1997 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 11 (1):7 – 20.
    It is argued, by use of specific examples, that mathematical understanding is something which cannot be modelled in terms of entirely computational procedures. Our conception of a natural number (a non-negative integer: 0, 1, 2, 3,…) is something which goes beyond any formulation in terms of computational rules. Our ability to perceive the properties of natural numbers depends upon our awareness, and represents just one of the many ways in which awareness provides an essential ingredient to our ability to understand. (...)
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  23. On bell non-locality without probabilities: More curious geometry.Jason Zimba & Roger Penrose - 1993 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 24 (5):697-720.
  24. Consciousness, computation, and the chinese room.Roger Penrose - 2002 - In John Mark Bishop & John Preston (eds.), Views Into the Chinese Room: New Essays on Searle and Artificial Intelligence. London: Oxford University Press.
     
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  25. The Big Bang and its Dark-Matter Content: Whence, Whither, and Wherefore.Roger Penrose - 2006 - Foundations of Physics 48 (10):1177-1190.
    The singularity theorems of the 1960s showed that Lemaître’s initial symmetry assumptions were not essential for deriving a big-bang origin for a vast multitude of relativistic universe models. Yet the actual universe accords remarkably closely with models of Lemaître’s type. This is a mystery closely related to the form taken by the 2nd law of thermodynamics and is not explained by currently conventional inflationary cosmology. Conformal cyclic cosmology provides another perspective on these issues, one consequence being the necessary initial presence (...)
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    Mechanisms, microtubules, and the mind.Roger Penrose - 1994 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 1 (2):241-49.
    The following is an edited version of Roger Penrose's lecture at the Fifth Mind and Brain Symposium at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, on 29 October 1994, introducing the themes of his recent book Shadows of the Mind. The talk begins by outlining some options for the modelling of the relationship between consciousness and computation, and provides evidence for a model in which it is not possible even in principle to simulate mathematical understanding computationally. It is argued that mathematical understanding (...)
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  27. Quantum physics and conscious thought.Roger Penrose - 1987 - In Basil J. Hiley & D. Peat (eds.), Quantum Implications: Essays in Honour of David Bohm. Methuen.
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    Spinors and torsion in general relativity.Roger Penrose - 1983 - Foundations of Physics 13 (3):325-339.
    Conformal rescalings of spinors are considered, in which the factor Ω, inε AB ↦Ωε AB, is allowed to be complex. It is argued that such rescalings naturally lead to the presence of torsion in the space-time derivative▽ a. It is further shown that, in standard general relativity, a circularly polarized gravitational wave produces a (nonlocal) rotation effect along rays intersecting it similar to, and apparently consistent with, the local torsion of the Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble theory. The results of these deliberations are suggestive (...)
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  29. Big Bangs, Black Holes and Time's Arrow.Roger Penrose - 1986 - In Raymond Flood & Michael Lockwood (eds.), The Nature of time. New York, NY, USA: Blackwell.
  30. Mathematical Intelligence.Roger Penrose - 1994 - In Jean Khalfa (ed.), What is Intelligence? Cambridge University Press. pp. 107-136.
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    The Basic Ideas of Conformal Cyclic Cosmology.Roger Penrose - 2024 - In Ines Testoni, Fabio Scardigli, Andrea Toniolo & Gabriele Gionti S. J. (eds.), Eternity Between Space and Time: From Consciousness to the Cosmos. De Gruyter. pp. 69-84.
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    Lo grande, lo pequeño y la mente humana.Roger Penrose, Nancy Cartwright, S. W. Hawking, M. S. Longair & Abner Shimony - 1999 - Cambridge University Press.
    Roger Penrose's original and provocative ideas about the large-scale physics of the Universe, the small-scale world of quantum physics and the physics of the mind have been the subject of controversy and discussion. These ideas were set forth in his best-selling books The Emperor's New Mind and Shadows of the Mind. In this book, he summarises and brings up to date his current thinking in these complex areas. He presents a masterful summary of those areas of physics in which he (...)
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  33. Consciousness, the brain, and spacetime geometry: An addendum: Some new developments on the orch OR model for consciousness.Roger Penrose - 2001 - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 929:105-10.
  34. Setting the scene: The claim and the issues.Roger Penrose - 1993 - In Donald Eric Broadbent (ed.), The Simulation of human intelligence. Cambridge: Blackwell.
     
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  35. On the nature of mathematical judgment: reply to Penrose.Alan Bundy & Roger Penrose - 1990 - Edinburgh University.
    This suggests that those of us building artificial reasoning systems should also build what I have called extended theorem provers that evolve and compare their methods of reasoning.".
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  36. Personal Publications Media Views Ulimate Computing.Stuart Hameroff & Roger Penrose - unknown
    Features of consciousness difficult to understand in terms of conventional neuroscience have evoked application of quantum theory, which describes the fundamental behavior of matter and energy. In this paper we propose that aspects of quantum theory (e.g. quantum coherence) and of a newly proposed physical phenomenon of quantum wave function "self-collapse"(objective reduction: OR -Penrose, 1994) are essential for consciousness, and occur in cytoskeletal microtubules and other structures within each of the brain's neurons. The particular characteristics of microtubules suitable for quantum (...)
     
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  37. Feeling for Form in Physics.David Peat, Paul Buckley, Roger Penrose, P. A. M. Dirac & Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - 1970 - Cbc Learning Systems // 1006l.
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    An emperor still without mind.Roger Penrose - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (3):616-622.
  39. Comments on 'Penrose and Mathematical Ability'.Roger Penrose - 1992 - Analysis 52 (2):87 - 88.
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    (1 other version)Discussion of Shadows of the Mind.Roger Penrose & J. Clark - 1994 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 1 (1):17-24.
    [opening paragraph] -- Clark: The Emperor's New Mind was such a massive and detailed work, it seems extraordinary to me that within five years you have written another book on consciousness.
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    Einstein's Miraculous Year: Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics.Roger Penrose & Albert Einstein (eds.) - 2005 - Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
    After 1905, physics would never be the same. In those 12 months, Einstein shattered many cherished scientific beliefs with five great papers that would establish him as the world's leading physicist. On their 100th anniversary, this book brings those papers together in an accessible format.
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  42. Is conscious awareness consistent with space-time descriptions?Roger Penrose - 1994 - In Philosophy, Mathematics and Modern Physics. New York: Springer Verlag.
  43. Mathematics, the Mind, and the Physical World.Roger Penrose - 2011 - In John Polkinghorne (ed.), Meaning in mathematics. New York: Oxford University Press.
     
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  44. Philosophy, Mathematics and Modern Physics.Roger Penrose - 1994 - New York: Springer Verlag.
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    Platońska rzeczywistość pojęć matematycznych.Roger Penrose - 1991 - Zagadnienia Filozoficzne W Nauce 13.
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    Roger Penrose: Collected Works: Volume 1: 1953-1967.Roger Penrose - 2010 - Oxford University Press.
    Professor Sir Roger Penrose's work, spanning fifty years of science, with over five thousand pages and more than three hundred papers, has been collected together for the first time and arranged chronologically over six volumes, each with an introduction from the author. Where relevant, individual papers also come with specific introductions or notes. The first volume covers the beginnings of a career that is ground-breaking from the outset. Inspired by courses given by Dirac and Bondi, much of the early published (...)
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    Roger Penrose: Collected Works: Six Volume Set.Roger Penrose - 2008 - Oxford University Press.
    Professor Sir Roger Penrose is one of the truly original thinkers of our time. He has made several remarkable contributions to science, from quantum physics and theories of human consciousness to relativity theory and observations on the structure of the universe. Unusually for a scientist, some of his ideas have crossed over into the public arena. Now his work, spanning fifty years of science, with over five thousand pages and more than three hundred papers, has been collected together for the (...)
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    Roger Penrose: Collected Works: Volume 3: 1976-1980.Roger Penrose - 2010 - Oxford University Press.
    Professor Sir Roger Penrose's work, spanning fifty years of science, with over five thousand pages and more than three hundred papers, has been collected together for the first time and arranged chronologically over six volumes, each with an introduction from the author. Where relevant, individual papers also come with specific introductions or notes. Many important realizations concerning twistor theory occurred during the short period of this third volume, providing a new perspective on the way that mathematical features of the complex (...)
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    Roger Penrose: Collected Works: Volume 4: 1981-1989.Roger Penrose - 2010 - Oxford University Press.
    Professor Sir Roger Penrose's work, spanning fifty years of science, with over five thousand pages and more than three hundred papers, has been collected together for the first time and arranged chronologically over six volumes, each with an introduction from the author. Where relevant, individual papers also come with specific introductions or notes. Among the new developments that occurred during this period was the introduction of a particular notion of 'quasi-local mass-momentum and angular momentum', the topic of Penrose's Royal Society (...)
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    Roger Penrose: Collected Works: Volume 5: 1990-1996.Roger Penrose - 2010 - Oxford University Press.
    Professor Sir Roger Penrose's work, spanning fifty years of science, with over five thousand pages and more than three hundred papers, has been collected together for the first time and arranged chronologically over six volumes, each with an introduction from the author. Where relevant, individual papers also come with specific introductions or notes. Publication of The Emperor's New Mind (OUP 1989) had caused considerable debate and Penrose's responses are included in this volume. Arising from this came the idea that large-scale (...)
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