How Long to Read Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics

How Long Does it Take to Read Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics by Jean-Pierre Changeux

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Do numbers and the other objects of mathematics enjoy a timeless existence independent of human minds, or are they the products of cerebral invention? Do we discover them, as Plato supposed and many others have believed since, or do we construct them? Does mathematics constitute a universal language that in principle would permit human beings to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations elsewhere in the universe, or is it merely an earthly language that owes its accidental existence to the peculiar evolution of neuronal networks in our brains? Does the physical world actually obey mathematical laws, or does it seem to conform to them simply because physicists have increasingly been able to make mathematical sense of it? Jean-Pierre Changeux, an internationally renowned neurobiologist, and Alain Connes, one of the most eminent living mathematicians, find themselves deeply divided by these questions. The problematic status of mathematical objects leads Changeux and Connes to the organization and function of the brain, the ways in which its embryonic and post-natal development influences the unfolding of mathematical reasoning and other kinds of thinking, and whether human intelligence can be simulated, modeled,--or actually reproduced-- by mechanical means. The two men go on to pose ethical questions, inquiring into the natural foundations of morality and the possibility that it may have a neural basis underlying its social manifestations. This vivid record of profound disagreement and, at the same time, sincere search for mutual understanding, follows in the tradition of Poincaré, Hadamard, and von Neumann in probing the limits of human experience and intellectual possibility. Why order should exist in the world at all, and why it should be comprehensible to human beings, is the question that lies at the heart of these remarkable dialogues.

How long is Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics?

Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics by Jean-Pierre Changeux is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics aloud.

What Reading Level is Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics?

Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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