Ray Kurzweil Examines Reverse Engineering The Human Brain

 Ray Kurzweil

In the upcoming How to Create a Mind the bold futurist best selling author explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain. Ray Kurzweil is arguably today’s most influential futurist. How to Create a Mind, 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.

A fter reading The Singularity Is Near, the question is whether emotional and moral intelligence can be recreated in brain simulations and artificial brains remained unanswered.

This fall, author Ray Kurzweil will release, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed.

How to Create a Mind the bold futurist best selling author explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain. Ray Kurzweil is arguably today’s most influential—and often controversial—futurist. In How to Create a Mind, 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.

In the upcoming book Kurzweil discusses how the brain functions, how the mind emerges from the brain, and the implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence in addressing the world’s problems. He 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. Certain to be one of the most widely discussed and debated science books of the year, How to Create a Mind is sure to take its place alongside Kurzweil’s previous classics.

Ray Kurzweil: The Mind and How to Build One from Singularity Institute on Vimeo.

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