How to Create a Mind
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What’s it about?
Ray Kurzweil reveals the brain as a pattern-recognition machine and shows how replicating its algorithms will lead to superhuman AI and human-machine merger.
You’ll learn
- The neocortex is a hierarchy of pattern recognizers
- Memory is reconstruction, not storage
- Creativity combines patterns from different domains
- Consciousness arises from complex information processing