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How to Create a Mind by Ray Kurzweil — WisdomDeck honest review
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How to Create a Mind

by Ray Kurzweil

Kurzweil's pattern-recognition theory of the neocortex and his case that we can build it. Confident and contested; interesting for how an engineer thinks about brains.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. The cortex is hierarchical pattern recognizers.
  2. Build what you can model.
  3. Expect exponential progress.

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Kurzweil on the mind.

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