Infinity and the Mind The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite

Name: Infinity and the Mind The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite
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ISBN: 9780691121277

ISBN-10: 0691121273

ISBN-13: 9780691121277

Edition: 1995

Authors: Rudy Rucker

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In Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the "Mindscape," where he explores infinity in all its forms: potential and actual, mathematical and physical, theological and mundane. Rucker acquaints us with Gdel's rotating universe, in which it is theoretically possible to travel into the past, and explains an interpretation of quantum mechanics in which billions of parallel worlds are produced every microsecond. It is in the realm of infinity, he maintains, that mathematics, science, and logic merge with the fantastic. By closely examining the paradoxes that arise from this merging, we can learn a great deal about the human mind, its…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/21/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.13" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 1.342




Infinity



All the numbers



The unnameable



Robots and souls



The one and the many


Excursion one : the transfinite cardinals


Excursion two : Godel's incompleteness theorems