Computerdenken: Die Debatte Um Künstliche Intelligenz, Bewusstsein Und Die Gesetze Der Physik (Paperback)

from lorax

This was a major disappointment. Penrose has made very good contributions to physics, but this is not one of them. The book can be summarized as "we don't understand consciousness, and we don't understand quantum gravity; they must be related!"

from lewispike

This is actually a hard book to review. If, like me, you came to this via Anathem and wanted to know where the ideas come from you will probably be very disappointed. If, on the other hand, you want a good primer on AI, Godel, Turing, classical, relativistic and quantum physics with some interest...

from RandyStafford

My reactions upon reading this book in 1991. This was a long, grueling read. I won't say I clearly understood (or even dimly understood) all this book. At times my eyes glazed over, and my comprehension phased out only to resume later -- usually after long passages of mathematical symbols though ...

from P_S_Patrick

I think the main aim of this book is to argue that consciousness is not just produced by a computer like mechanism, using just algorithms, but instead using something more complicated. It goes into topics like quantum mechanics to try and find examples of non computable things which could perhaps...

from KirkLowery

The weak AI's answer to Douglas Hofstadter: computers will never become self aware.