How to Create a Mind The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
Publication Date: November 2012 Ray Kurzweil, the bold futurist
and author of the New York Times bestseller The Singularity Is
Near, is arguably today's most influential technological
visionary. A pioneering inventor and theorist, he has explored
for decades how artificial intelligence can enrich and expand
human capabilities. Now, in his much-anticipated How to Create a
Mind, he takes this exploration to the next step: reverse-
engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works, then
applying that knowledge to create vastly intelligent machines.
Drawing on the most recent neuroscience research, his own
research and inventions in artificial intelligence, and
compelling thought experiments, he describes his new theory of
how the neocortex (the thinking part of the brain) works: as a
self-organizing hierarchical system of pattern recognizers.
Kurzweil shows how these insights will enable us to greatly
extend the powers of our own mind and provides