The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and Laws of Physics

by Roger Penrose

Foreword by Martin Gardner

In The Emperor's New Mind, Sir Roger Penrose argues that human consciousness is not algorithmic and cannot be replicated by computers.

The book explores this thesis by first providing a comprehensive overview of physics, mathematics, and cosmology to show the limitations of computational thinking and the mysteries of the universe.

Penrose proposes that consciousness depends on non-computable, quantum-mechanical processes in the brain, suggesting a gap in our current scientific understanding of the mind-body problem.