How to Create a Mind How to Create a Mind

How to Create a Mind

The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

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Publisher Description

The bold futurist and bestselling author of The Singularity is Nearer explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain

Ray Kurzweil is arguably today’s most influential—and often controversial—futurist. In How to Create a Mind, Kurzweil presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in human-machine civilization—reverse engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works and using that knowledge to create even more intelligent machines.

Kurzweil discusses how the brain functions, how the mind emerges from the brain, and the implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence in addressing the world’s problems. He thoughtfully examines emotional and moral intelligence and the origins of consciousness and envisions the radical possibilities of our merging with the intelligent technology we are creating.

Certain to be one of the most widely discussed and debated science books of the year, How to Create a Mind is sure to take its place alongside Kurzweil’s previous classics which include Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever and The Age of Spiritual Machines.

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
2012
November 13
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
6.6
MB

Customer Reviews

NuJourney12 ,

How To Create A Mind

Ray Kurzweil is such a phenomenal speaker that it’s tempting to want to hear his information delivered exclusively through audio means. However, he is also the Rare Writer who makes Quantum Computing Fun. His amazing gifts are the abilities to take incredible journeys that require a leap of faith to then contemplate and deliver the information systematically and precisely in a way that is fully comprehensible. Building on what we already know about the human species, he extends our knowledge about what is to come. How To Create A Mind provides the semi immersive feeling (using one’s imagination) of riding the wave of technology, while remaining in the cockpit of a revolving helicopter directly overhead, providing a nearly 360 degree view. His books are the extending levers that help us “extend our reach.” No spoiler alerts, but How To Create A Mind is a journey. We are truly lucky to have such information imparted by one of the greatest minds on this planet. Exciting times! :)

rdh314 ,

Future Mind

Kurzweil covers the most interesting subject of the 20th and 21st century.... our minds and its future.

Paul "Mac Guy" Scott ,

Excellent book

Ray Kurzweil's writing is engaging and inspiring. I highly recommend this book to anybody interested in the future of computing.

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