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    How to create a mind : the secret of human thought revealed / / Ray Kurzweil.
     
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    Author: 
    Kurzweil, Ray.
    Title: 
    How to create a mind : the secret of human thought revealed / / Ray Kurzweil.
    Publisher: 
    New York : Viking, 2012.
    Description: 
    336 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
    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.
    Bibliography Note: 
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents: 
    Thought experiments on the world -- Thought experiments on thinking -- A model of 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.
    Subject: 
    Brain -- Localization of functions.
    Self-consciousness (Awareness)
    Artificial intelligence.
    Catalog Source No.: 
    (OCoLC)ocn779263503
    ISBN: 
    9780670025299
    0670025291
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    QP385 .K87 2012American History, National Museum of39088017553520Checked InRequest Copy
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