The Book Prize Index

The Emperor's New Mind

Roger Penrose

Advances the theory that despite burgeoning computer technologies, there will remain facets of human thinking that cannot be emulated by a machine.

ScienceScience · high confidenceScience81 signalsLlm Classifier: Science -> ScienceOpen Library: Psychology & Counseling / Cognitive -> Medicine & Public HealthOpen Library: Science -> ScienceScience & DiscoveryIntelligence, Secrecy & Surveillance

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Royal Society Science Book PrizeMajor1990WinnerSecondary source
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This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Despite advances in computer technologies, there will remain facets of human thinking that cannot be emulated by a machine.

    Model confidence 78%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    30 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 70%.