How to create a mind : the secret of human thought revealed / Ray Kurzweil.
By: Kurzweil, Ray
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TextPublisher: New York : Viking, 2012Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: 336 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780670025299; 0670025291.Subject(s): Brain -- Localization of functions | Self-consciousness (Awareness) | Artificial intelligenceDDC classification: 612.8/2 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 612.82 K967 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284001010735 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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