HOW TO CREATE A MIND: THE SECRETS OF HUMAN THOUGHT REVEALED By Ray Kurzweil

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I’m a huge fan of Ray Kurzweil’s brilliant The Singularity is Near where Kurzweil really explores the implications of technology. In this new book, Kurzweil says the human-machine civilization is upon us. When I see people walking around wearing Google Glasses I’m sure Kurzweil is right. Kurzweil shows how the brain functions, how our minds emerge, and the potentials of brain-computer interfaces. If you want to read about where this renowned futurist thinks we’re going, How to Create a Mind is worth your time and attention. GRADE: A
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Thought Experiments on the World
2. Thought Experiments on Thinking
3. A Model of the Neocortex: The Pattern Recognition Theory of Mind
4. The Biological Neocortex
5. The Old Brain
6. Transcendental Abilities
7. The Biologically inspired Digital Neocortex
8. The Mind as a Computer
9. Though Experiments on the Mind
10. The Law of Accelerating Returns Applied to the Brain
11. Objections
Epilogue

6 thoughts on “HOW TO CREATE A MIND: THE SECRETS OF HUMAN THOUGHT REVEALED By Ray Kurzweil

  1. Cap'n Bob

    I’m too old to worry or care about any of this, and I don’t have enough reading time to bother, but you seem to enjoy it so what the hey.

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  2. Richard

    I left a long, clever comment only to have it erased by a MUST UPDATE SOFTWARE RIGHT NOW NO EXCEPTIONS!! popup in the middle of the screen and now said comment is gone – though laptop is happy, apparently – and I’m not even sure what my oh so clever, cerebral comment was so this is all you get from me today I guess.

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