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How to create a mind is a brilliant exposition tying in how the human mind works and artificial intelligence. Through an unending recursive process, we are capable of building ideas that are ever more complex.
The human neocortex is the outermost layer of the brain. It is hierarchically structured with a topologically three-dimensional ‘bus’ of pre-wired interconnections which can be used to make long-distance links between regions. The neocortex recognizes... Read More
Kurzweil contends that the basic unit is a pattern recognizer. The 300 million pattern recognisers in our biological brains are on the threshold of having access to billions more in the cloud.
The book is a great exploration of how the bio-chemical human brain produces thought and memory, and how this is in the process of being reproduced with computer simulation. Nice background in neuroscience. Recommend this along with recent books on qu... Read More
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He doesn't believe that we are intelligent or that the intelligent parts of us has anything to do with other than the ablity to pass ideas, experiences and doubts back and forth to each other on things that are not really important to us. The book is ... Read More
In linguistics, kurzweil sticks with noam chomsky’s concept of generative grammar which he models rather elegantly with hierarchical hidden markov model. He also seems to confuse the role of neurotransmitters, neuromodulators and hormones in his descr... Read More
I hope that is enough information to dissuade people from fawning over this book. It is boring, repetitious and trivial. This book and it's writer are pathetically sad.
It is not horrible, well maybe it is. Well, that and $2. Unfortunately, after that it all goes downhill. I have to say it's disappointing.
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If you think this is crazy reflect upon how exponential growth works or imagine travelling back in time and giving a demo of go... Read More
Now where this begins to get very interesting is when we contemplate building machines with the capabilities of the human brain
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Transhumanism is a plausible reality that everyone should at least be aware of
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Book was well shipped and packaged securely to protect against damage from shipping and handling
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The author predicts “this will first take place in 2029 and become routine in the 2030s
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The one thing kurzweil avoids mentioning is the still controversial convergence of the electromagnet nature of consciousness
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In my opinion we have only partly overcome certain restrictions regarding our biological heritage and have not made the complete change
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It has not been allowed us jet to perform the gean modifications to homo sapiens that would compleat the biological change
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Regardless of theological objections there is an indisputable inevitability to many of kurzweil’s claims such as the immense rise of super intelligence
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Will update review to reflect content upon reading
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So rapid has been the progress that most of the detailed understanding of the brain dates from the last decade and new discoveries are arriving at such a rate that the author had to make substantial revisions to the manuscript of this book upon several occasions after it was already submitted for publication
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The focus here is primarily upon the neocortex a part of the brain which exists only in mammals and is identified with “higher level thinking” learning from experience logic planning and in humans language and abstract reasoning
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The older brain which mammals share with other species is discussed in chapter 5 but in mammals it is difficult to separate entirely from the neocortex because the latter has “infiltrated” the old brain wiring itself into its sensory and action components allowing the neocortex to process information and override responses which are automatic in creatures such as reptiles
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