The Embodied Mind: Unravelling Ai, Medicine, And Physics
Author(s): Athanassios Fokas (Author)
Publisher: WSPC (EUROPE)
Publication Date: February 26, 2026
Language: English
Print length: 398 pages
ISBN-10: 1800618484
ISBN-13: 9781800618480
Book Description
The Embodied Mind approaches AI and the modern revolutionary breakthroughs in medicine, biology, and physics in conversation with the role of the humanities. A mathematician, engineer, and physician, Professor Thanasis Fokas is interested in intensive and focused analysis of these fields: the achievements, uses, neurophysiology, and possible problems of AI; advances in immunology, cancer, and gene editing; the striking inventiveness of Einstein and the primacy of experimental physics; and, finally, the fundamental unconscious processes of the brain and the critical importance of sleep. Throughout the book, Fokas emphasises the crucial role of the arts and letters in today's society, which is increasingly driven towards mechanisation, where emotional and affectional aspects are ignored and emphasis is seemingly directed only towards purely algorithmic, machine-driven gadgets. No other book matches this title in its combination of breadth, depth, and interdisciplinary focus. Postgraduate researchers across a wide variety of fields will find cutting-edge discoveries presented with appropriate vigour, while general readers will be able to appreciate the nuances and complexities of the topics covered. What, if any, significant role will be left for humans to play in this anxious, unpredictable world of AI and robotics? Fokas distils the defining aspects of our modern condition to consider, suggest, and advise readers on ways to perceive and engage with the world, avoid catastrophe, and unravel our understandings of AI, medicine, and physics.
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Professor Fokas emerges as an Uomo Universale, an authentic polymath, a true philosopher of Science."
C Alan Short, LittD President of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
"Thanasis Fokas has achieved what was seemingly unachievable...[connecting] a plethora of facts from several disciplines in the natural sciences, life sciences, and the humanities...His book combines the accuracy of science, the excitement of discovery, and the emotional engagement of storytelling."
Yannis Ioannidis, President of the Association for Computing Machinery
"In a book of epic reach, Fokas — a physician, engineer, mathematician and, in my opinion, philosopher — straddles physics, computing, the arts, medicine and neuroscience, with remarkable acuity, to reveal the importance and value of inter-dependency"
Siddharthan Chandran Director of UK Dementia Research Institute
About the Author
Athanassios Fokas has a BS in Aeronautics from Imperial College (1975), a PhD in Applied Mathematics from California Institute of Technology (1979, and an MD from the University of Miami (1986). He also has eight honorary degrees. In 1978 he was appointed a Saul Kaplun Fellow at the Department of Applied Mathematics at Caltech. Over the successive 47 years he has been appointed to a Chair in Applied Mathematics at Imperial College and first holder of the inaugural Chair of Nonlinear Mathematical Science at the University of Cambridge, Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California, held visiting positions at Stanford and Harvard Universities, and been made a Fellow of Clare Hall College, Cambridge, the Guggenheim Foundation, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the American mathematical Society. Professor Fokas received the Naylor Prize of the London Mathematical Society (the previous recipient being Stephen Hawking) in 2000, the Aristos Prize of the Academy of Athens in 2004, the Excellence Prize of the Bodassaki Foundation in 2006, the Senior EPSRC Fellowship in 2015, the Blaise Pascal Medal of the European Academy of Sciences in 2023, and the SIAM Kruskal Award/Lecturein 2024. One of only 11 Honorary Members of the World Academy of Sciences (seven of whom are Nobel Prize Laureates), Professor Fokas was pronounced by Research.com a "UK Mathematics Leader, 2024" as a result of being in the list of the 10 most cited UK mathematicians of all time by H-index and the most cited mathematician of all time from the University of Cambridge, not to mention his being the author or co-author of eight monographs and eight books, and published more than 400 papers across the fields of Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Biology, Medicine, Philosophy, and the Arts. In 2006 the distinguished mathematician Israel Gelfand wrote that "Fokas is a rare scientist in the style of Renaissance".
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