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.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Viking,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Thought experiments on the world
- Thought experiments on thinking
- A model for the neocortex : the pattern recognition theory of mind
- The biological neocortex
- The old brain
- Transcendent abilities
- The biologically inspired digital neocortex
- The mind as computer
- Thought experiments on the mind
- The law of accelerating returns applied to the brain
- Objections.
