The Emperors New Mind

Penrose, Roger: Computerdenken Die Debatte um Künstliche Intelligenz, Bewusstsein und die Gesetze der Physik, SPEKTRUM AKADEMISCHER VERLAG, 120 ISBN: 382741332X
In seinem Klassiker erläutert der international führende Mathematiker und Physiker, Sir Roger Penrose, seine These, dass die geistigen Fähigkeiten des menschlichen Gehirns nicht durch Berechnungen von Elektronengehirnen erreicht werden können - und provozierte eine neue KI-Debatte. ...des Kaisers neue Kleider - steht auf dem Buchumschlag. Der renommierte englische Physiker Penrose will damit sichtbar machen, daß die Vertreter der Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) nackt dastehen. Mit einem 400 Seiten langen Exkurs versucht er, ihre Behauptung zu widerlegen, daß Maschinen ebenso intelligent sein können wie Menschen.bild der wissenschaftRoger Penrose (...) gelang das Kunststück, mit dem formelgespickten Wälzer The Emperors's New Mind (auf deutsch jetzt unter dem geistlosen Titel Computerdenken erschienen) auf den US-Bestsellerlisten zu landen, ungeachtet aller Quanten-Ket-Vektoren und Einsteinscher Krüümungstensoren, mit denen der Autor seine Leser plagt.DER SPIEGELDas erklärte Ziel dieses Buches ist, den Standpunkt einiger KI-Enthusiasten zu widerlegen, daß Computer irgendwann all das können, was menschliche Gehirne können - und sogar mehr. Aber der Leser merkt bald, dass Pnerose vor allem das Ziel verfolgt, einen Wegzur großen Synthese von klassischer Physik, Quantenphysik und Neurowissenschaften aufzuzeigen.John Horgan in Scientific AmericanWer Computerdenken liest (oder durcharbeitet), sollte nicht auf Antwort hoffen, darf aber neue Sichtwiesen und überraschende Interpretationen erwarten. Ein nahrhaftes Geschenk für naturwissenschaftlich Interessierte. Die ZeitTrotz des mathematichen Themas wurde The Emperor's New Mind prompt ein Bestseller und sein Autor zum bestgehaßten Mann der KI-Szene (...) Als Anfang der neunziger Jahre in England die Fördermittel für KI-Projekte nicht mehr so reichlich flossen, orteten manche eine KI-feindliche Stimmung in der Öffentlichkeit, die Penrose verschuldet habe.Die Zeit

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Lokesh Chandra Illustrator: NA: Iconography of the Thousand Buddhas, Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi 1996 ISBN: 9788186471081

As New Hardcover NA Iconography of the Thousand Buddhas records their names in Sanskrit, Tibetan, Manchu, Mongolian and Chinese, in Original scripts from Iconography of the Thousand Buddhas records their names in Sanskrit, Tibetan, Manchu, Mongolian and Chinese, in original scripts from a pentaglot xylograph whose microfilm was brought from Beijing by Prof. Dr. Raghu Vira in 1955, as well as in romanisation. These have been supplemented by Sanskrit names from a Khotanese scroll discovered by Sir Aurel Stein from the Tunhuang Caves. Prof. Raghu Vira obtained the Tibetan Drawings of the Thousand Buddhas in the Bhadrakalpika-sutra xylographed at the Zho printery below the Potala Palace at Lhasa in Tibet. These drawings have been reproduced in the book for the first time. The recitation of a thousand names or epithets of a Deity (nama-kirtana) is an Ancient Indian Tradition : an awareness of the perennial possibilities of the Spiritual horizon. Here the illumined mind is thousand-folded into ever-higher intuition of the Infinity of the transcendent universal. In India a special literary genre was devoted to the thousand names, or rather epithets, of a divinity. The thousand names of Visnu are well known as the Visnu-sahasra-name. The thousand epithets of the Buddha underwent an apotheosis as the Thousand Buddhas and they became a thousand pictures or a thousand icons, in variations of fives or sixes. Their statuettes were done in the 18th century at the behest of Ch'ien-lung for his mother. The earliest mention of the Thousand Buddhas is in the Brahmajala-sutra which was translated into Chinese in AD 223-253. They are mentioned in the Tathagat-acintya-guhya-nirdesa translated by Dharmaraksa in AD 280, and also in the Lotus Sutra whose translator is also Dharmaraksa (AD 286), in the Bhadrakalpika-sutra, Gandavyuha of the Avatamsaka rendered by Buddhabhadra in AD 422. The introduction to the work gives a History of the important Texts in Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan relating to the Thousand Buddhas. The vast Complex of Tunhuang Caves was inspired by this concept which was elaborated in the Bhadrakalpika-sutra. This sutra was translated into Chinese by the Yueh-chih Monk of Tun-huang Dharmaraksa. Again Tunhuang has yielded the Khotanese scroll of this sutra whose lines 199-754 contain salutations to the Thousand Buddhas. The Thousand Buddhas were integral to the Avatamsaka school. The central Buddha of this School was Rocana or Abhyuccadeva 'The Colossal Divinity'. He was configured in the Yun-kang and Tun-huang caves of China, in Korea and Japan as a sanctification of the state. The most well-known colossus in the Roshana Daibutsu (Rocana) at the Toshodaiji Monastery in Nara. The Liang translation of the Trikalpika-sutra enumerates the Thousand Buddhas of the past, present and future. They were venerated by the founder of the Liang dynasty and succeeding emperors. The Bamiyan colossi with their Miniature Thousand Buddhas inspired monumental caves in China. The first chapel of Tun-huang was constructed by an Indian pilgrim-monk Lo-ts'un (Lachman/Laksmana) in AD 366 and named the 'Caves of Unequalled Height' (Chinese Mo kao k'u). The prevalence of the Thousand Buddhas in Tun-huang paintings from the earliest caves may be due to the legend of Lo-ts'un who opened the first Cave after having seen the Thousand Buddhas in Golden radiance. Thousand Buddhas are painted in cave CDXXVII of the Sui period (AD 589-618) when the founder of the dynasty reunited the North and South of China. The sutra on the Thousand Buddhas was translated by a native of the place, the 'Bodhisattva of Tun-huang', naturally it could have provided the inspiration. After the unification of North China, Northern Wei commenced the excavation of the yun-kang caves in AD 460 under the supervision of the Administrator TaEUR an-yao (c. AD 410-486), for the benefit of Printed Pages: 444. 5th or later edition

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Kumar Prasad Mukherji: The Lost World of Hindustani Music, Penguin Books ,2006 ,New Delhi ISBN: 0143061992

Kumar Prasad Mukherji's elegy to a vanishing age of musical giants comprises many shared experiences between performer and audience, between racital and applause. It is his salute to a world receding into the shadows of history, peopled by ustads, pandits, the rich and the famous, the sacred and the profane. He traces the origins of their schools, from folk traditions to the courts of ancient emperors to the sound of the ankle-bells of dancing girls. He points to the time when notation crept into classical music, horrifying old masters accustomed to an art form that celebrated spontaneity and improvisation, but resulting in the preservation of ragas that would otherwise have been lost to time. While Mukherji's beloved 'Khansahebs', 'Panditjis' and 'Buwas' may have been inspired by the divine, his recounting from legends and from personal memory shows us those greats as intensely human creatures. They are driven by appetites not always noble and their intrigues and jealousies are universal. Humour, too, abounds in these pages, as do characters who will remain forever etched in the mind of the reader.; Paperback

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Gilded Tarot, PUBLISHERS GROUP UK, September 2004 ISBN: 0738705209
Heralding archetypal elements of traditional Tarot, The Gilded Tarot has priestesses in flowing robes, wise emperors, knights on majestic steeds, mystics wielding magical tools, and other intriguing characters from medieval times in the Major and Minor Arcana. Also features standard symbols for the card suits swords, cups, wands, and pentacles.

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