Penrose, Roger:Shadows of the Mind. a Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness
- signiertes Exemplar 2022, ISBN: 9780198539780
Gebundene Ausgabe
(Santa Cruz, CA): Foolscap Press, 2022. quarter leather over cloth boards, custom cloth-covered box with leather spine label. Foolscap Press. 9.75 x 13.5 inches. quarter leather over clo… Mehr…
(Santa Cruz, CA): Foolscap Press, 2022. quarter leather over cloth boards, custom cloth-covered box with leather spine label. Foolscap Press. 9.75 x 13.5 inches. quarter leather over cloth boards, custom cloth-covered box with leather spine label. 103, (7) pages. Translated by Geoffrey Stachan. Illustrated by Vladimir Zimakov. Privately printed in an edition of 100 copies, of which this is one of 90 copies available for sale. Fine in fine clamshell box. The book was designed, printed and bound by Peggy Gotthold and Lawrence Van Velzer at Foolscap Press. The book is printed letterpress on Rives paper in Van Dijck type and signed by the author, translator and artist. There are eight full-page two- or three-color illustrations and eight chapter opening vignettes by Vladimir Zimakov. From the artists: Brief Loves that Live Forever is a novel in eight chapters, each of which are distinct episodes in the life of the narrator. The chapters show us moments of supreme lucidity where the narrator is consciously alive to the beauty of the world and the possibility of love in its many aspects. The setting is the Brezhnev era in the Soviet Union where as the narrator states, "love is in essence subversive." The essence of this novel is how to move beyond recrimination of the past or even the promise of the future and to be consciously alive to the beauty around us, and to that possibility of love. Andreï Makine is an elegant stylist who allows us to witness these clear moments throughout this moving and thoughtful novel. Andreï Makine was born in Siberia in 1957 and has lived in France since 1987 when he traveled there as a member of a teachers exchange program. He determined to stay in France and was granted political asylum. Writing in his adopted language, he is the author of over twenty novels and has won Frances top literary prizes, the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Médicis. In 2016 Makine was elected to the prestigious Académie française, succeeding Assia Djebar. Geoffrey Strachan has worked closely with Andreï Makine, translating all of the novels published in English. Strachan was awarded the Scott Moncrieff Prize in 1998 for his translation of Makines Le testament français. Strachan was shortlisted for the Moncrieff Prize for Makines The Archipelago of Another Life in 2020 and for Tropic of Violence by Nathacha Appanah in 2019. In 2007 he was a runner up for The Woman Who Waited by Makine. Strachan also translates from German and has won the Schlegel-Tieck award in 1973 for Love and Hate by Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt. Vladimir Zimakov is an illustrator, book artist and designer. He is an associate professor of art and design and the director of the Wedeman Art Gallery at Lasell University in Massachusetts. Zimakov has worked with leading publishing houses such as Penguin, Random House, Faber and Faber, Oxford University Press, the Folio Society illustrating books and producing cover art. He has also worked with Mad Parrot Press/Deep Wood Press, Centipede Press and publishes under the Wild Pangolin Press imprint., Foolscap Press, 2022, 0, London: John Chapman, 1848. FIRST EDITION OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION. Publisher's cloth, embossed emblem of the Catholic Series on covers, corners slightly worn, rebacked with the orginial label; interior very good. From the library of Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, with his bookplate and signature dated March, 1849 on the paste-down, and some pencil annotations at the end of the text. First edition of the English translation by William Smith. Fichte identifies three distinct stages in the development of human existence and the striving for conscious knowledge both theoretical and practical: 1. doubt 2. knowledge 3. faith. Fichte published his famous Wissenschaftslehre, an "essay towards a critique of all revelation" which was an exposition and clarification of Kant's work, in 1794. He followed up over the next few years covering the theoretical side of his system. Here Fichte reaches for the source of human knowledge, arriving at two conflicting views of human existence: Humans are subject to the cause-and-effect laws of nature, yet their ability to reason will raise humans above the strict necessity that controls the natural world. He concludes that our vocation "is not merely to know but to act in accordance with [our] knowledge."Fichte (1762-1814) was a German philosopher, one of the founding figures of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, often perceived as a figure whose philosophy forms a bridge between the ideas of Kant and the German idealist Hegel.Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford (1823-1898), was educated at Christ Church, Oxford where he took a first in classics and won the chancellor's English essay. From 1847 to 1874 he was elected to parliament for Louth as a liberal. He was junior lord of the treasury, under-secretary of state for the colonies, and succeeded Robert Peel as chief secretary for Ireland under Lord Russell. On formation of Gladstone's first administration he became president of the Board of Trade, later lord privy seal and president of the council. He shared the burden and the credit of some great reforms following the disestablishment of the Irish Church. John Stuart Mill described his measure as the most important passed by the British parliament since the Roman Catholic Emancipation act. He was raised to the peerage as Lord Carlingford, and succeeded Lord Spencer as president of the council. Carlingford lived with his wife, Frances Elizabeth Anne, Lady Waldegrave (1821-1879), at Strawberry Hill, which she had inherited before their marriage, including all of Walpole's library and artifacts., John Chapman, 1848, 0, Oxford Univ Pr. New. 1994. Hardcover. 0198539789 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened - 457 pages. Book description: "... In `Shadows of the Mind, ' Penrose offers another exhilarating look at modern science as he mounts an even more powerful attack on artificial intelligence. But perhaps more important, in this volume he points the way to a new science, one that may eventually explain the physical basis of the human mind. Penrose contends that some aspects of the human mind lie beyond computation. This is not a religious argument (that the mind is something other than physical) nor is it based on the brain's vast complexity (the weather is immensely complex, says Penrose, but it is still a computable thing, at least in theory). Instead, he provides powerful arguments to support his conclusion that there is something in the conscious activity of the brain that transcends computation--and will find no explanation in terms of present-day science. To illuminate what he believes this `something' might be, and to suggest where a new physics must proceed so that we may understand it, Penrose cuts a wide swathe through modern science, providing penetrating looks at everything from Turing computability and Godel's incompleteness, via Schrodinger's Cat and the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb-testing problem, to detailed microbiology. Of particular interest is Penrose's extensive examination of quantum mechanics, which introduces some new ideas that differ markedly from those advanced in `The Emperor's New Mind, ' especially concerning the mysterious interface where classical and quantum physics meet. But perhaps the most interesting wrinkle in `Shadows of the Mind' is Penrose's excursion into microbiology, where he examines cytoskeletons and microtubules, minute substructures lying deep within the brain's neurons. (He argues that microtubules--not neurons--may indeed be the basic units of the brain, which, if nothing else, would dramatically increase the brain's computational power. ) Furthermore, he contends that in consciousness some kind of global quantum state must take place across large areas of the brain, and that it within microtubules that these collective quantum effects are most likely to reside. For physics to accommodate something that is as foreign to our current physical picture as is the phenomenon of consciousness, we must expect a profound change--one that alters the very underpinnings of our philosophical viewpoint as to the nature of reality. Shadows of the Mind provides anilluminating look at where these profound changes may take place and what our future understanding of the world may be. " -- with a bonus offer-- ., Oxford Univ Pr, 1994, 6<
