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The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
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Penrose argues that human consciousness is non-algorithmic and cannot be replicated by conventional computation, drawing on physics, mathematics, and cosmology. The 1989 book won the Royal Society's Rhone-Poulenc Prize.
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