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How to Create a Mind

By Ray Kurzweil

The Secret of Human Thought Revealed. Viking Press, 2012.

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How to Create a Mind

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A concise, research-based text that explores how the brain develops, works, and continues to evolve, advancing new theories regarding artificial intelligence, including its growing connection to the human mind.

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Who should read How to Create a Mind

Evolutionary theorists • scientists • medical professionals • biologists • psychologists • anyone interested in the human brain or technology

About the author of How to Create a Mind

Inventor Ray Kurzweil is regarded for his futurist theories on technological subjects such as speech recognition, artificial intelligence, and life extension. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, and in 2002, he was inaugurated into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. PBS has named him one of the “sixteen revolutionaries who made America.”

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