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How to create a mind the secret of human thought revealed

Explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain, outlining the controversial implications of increasing intelligence in order to address global problems while comparing emotional and moral intelligence and considering the origins of consciousness.

Main Author: Kurzweil, Ray.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Viking, 2012.
Subjects:
Spisak, Alexander tribute.
Brain > Localization of functions.
Self-consciousness (Awareness)
Artificial intelligence.
Summary: Explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain, outlining the controversial implications of increasing intelligence in order to address global problems while comparing emotional and moral intelligence and considering the origins of consciousness.
Physical Description: 336 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780670025299
0670025291
Author Notes: Ray Kurzweil was born on February 12, 1948. He was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. He has received numerous awards including the MIT-Lemelson Prize and the National Medal of Technology. In 2002, he was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame. He has written several books including The Age of Spiritual Machines, The Age of Intelligent Machines, The Singularity Is Near, and How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed.

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