How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
Ray Kurzweil
Language: English
Pages: 352
ISBN: 0143124048
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The bestselling author of The Singularity Is Near explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain
Ray Kurzweil is arguably today’s most influential futurist. In How to Create a Mind, he presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in the human-machine civilization: reverse-engineering the brain to understand precisely how it functions and using that knowledge to create even more intelligent machines. Kurzweil discusses how the brain works, how the mind emerges, brain-computer interfaces, and the implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence to address the world’s problems. Certain to be one of the most widely discussed and debated science books of the year, How to Create a Mind is sure to take its place alongside Kurzweil’s previous classics.
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Computational resources continue to grow exponentially.3 We can also simulate how proteins interact with one another in an intricate three-dimensional dance of atomic forces. Our growing understanding of biology is one important facet of discovering the intelligent secrets that evolution has bestowed on us and then using these biologically inspired paradigms to create ever more intelligent technology. There is now a grand project under way involving many thousands of scientists and engineers.
Span the entire physical distance between them. It can simply harness one of these axonal connections-in-waiting and just hook up to the ends of the fiber. As Wedeen and his colleagues write, “The pathways of the brain follow a base-plan established by . . . early embryogenesis. Thus, the pathways of the mature brain present an image of these three primordial gradients, physically deformed by development.” In other words, as we learn and have experiences, the pattern recognition modules of the.
Published in 2008 by Princeton psychology professor Uri Hasson and his colleagues demonstrates that the phenomena observed in the visual cortex occur across a wide variety of neocortical areas: “It is well established that neurons along the visual cortical pathways have increasingly larger spatial receptive fields. This is a basic organizing principle of the visual system. . . . Real-world events occur not only over extended regions of space, but also over extended periods of time. We therefore.
Self-organizing method of determining the topology of the hidden Markov models (or, in the biological case, before the person learns her lessons by similarly creating connections in her cortical hierarchy). This is perhaps a misnomer, given that these initial DNA-based design details are determined by biological evolution, though some may see the hand of God in that process (and while I do consider evolution to be a spiritual process, this discussion properly belongs in chapter 9). When it came.