Shadows of the Mind

Shadows of the Mind A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness

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Publisher's Synopsis

'One of the most important works…of the twentieth century' The Times

Shadows of the Mind is a profound exploration of what modern physics has to tell us about the human mind.

A visionary description of what a new physics - one that is adequate to account for our extraordinary brain - might look like. It is also a bold speculation on the biological process that makes consciousness what it is.


In this illuminating book Penrose provides powerful arguments to support his conclusion that there is something in the conscious activity of the brain that transcends computation - something that can't be explained by present-day science.

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Vintage

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Vintage is a highly respected paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers like Philip Roth, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison. There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list such as Kingsley Amis, A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle and Ben Okri, to name a few.

Book information

ISBN: 9780099582113
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage
Pub date:
DEWEY: 153.4
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 457
Weight: 340g
Height: 166mm
Width: 198mm
Spine width: 31mm