{"product_id":"how-to-create-a-mind-the-secret-of-human-thought-revealed-paperback","title":"How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRay Kurzweil\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - The bold futurist and renowned author of \u003ci\u003eThe Singularity Is Near \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This book is a Rosetta Stone for the mystery of human thought.\"--Martine Rothblatt, chairman and CEO, United Therapeutics, and creator of Sirius XM Satellite Radio\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Kurzweil's vision of our super-enhanced future is completely sane and calmly reasoned, and his book should nicely smooth the path for the earth's robot overlords, who, it turns out, will be us.\"\u003ci\u003e--The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHow to Create a Mind, \u003c\/i\u003eRay Kurzweil presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in human-machine civilization: reverse-engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works and using that knowledge to create even more intelligent machines. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKurzweil discusses how the brain functions, how the mind emerges, brain-computer interfaces, and the implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence to address the world's problems. He also thoughtfully examines emotional and moral intelligence and the origins of consciousness and envisions the radical possibilities of our merging with the intelligent technology we are creating. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on years of advanced research and cutting-edge inventions in artificial intelligence, \u003ci\u003eHow to Create a Mind \u003c\/i\u003eis an incredible synthesis of neuroscience and technology and provides a road map for the future of human progress.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRay Kurzweil \u003c\/b\u003eis a world class inventor, thinker, and futurist, with a thirty-five-year track record of accurate predictions. He has been a leading developer in artificial intelligence for more than six decades--longer than any other living person. He was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, omni-font optical character recognition, print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, text-to-speech synthesizer, music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition software. Ray received a GRAMMY(R) Award for outstanding achievement in music technology. He is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He has written five books including \u003ci\u003eThe Singularity Is Near\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHow to Create a Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, both \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers, and \u003ci\u003eDanielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of multiple young adult fiction awards. He is a Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.6 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 27, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53489681367347,"sku":"9780143124047","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Y_X9PkeZ659780143124047.webp?v=1781528217","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/how-to-create-a-mind-the-secret-of-human-thought-revealed-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}