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The Emperor's New Mind

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What’s it about?

A physicist argues that human consciousness is not a computer program but a quantum phenomenon rooted in the fabric of spacetime itself.

You’ll learn

  • Why the Turing Test fails to prove machine thought
  • How Gödel's theorem shows minds aren't algorithms
  • Quantum microtubules may be the seat of consciousness
  • Consciousness as a non-computable cosmic process