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How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

Kurzweil, Ray

How does the brain make a mind, and could the same principle of pattern recognition be built into a machine, as Kurzweil argues?

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Author
Kurzweil, Ray

Why read it

  • You will get a simple picture of thinking as layers of pattern recognition
  • You will learn how thought experiments, famous in physics, can be turned on the workings of the brain
  • You will have a footing to judge claims about machines that think, based on how the brain may work

Who it is for

  • Engineers and product people working with AI
  • Curious readers who want a theory of how thinking works
  • Anyone wondering how close machines are to human thought

Contents

  1. HOW TO CREATE A MIND
  2. HOW TO
  3. CREATE
  4. A
  5. MIND
  6. INTRODUCTION
  7. CHAPTER 1
  8. THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS ON THE WORLD
  9. A Metaphor from Geology
  10. Riding on a Light Beam
  11. A Unified Model of the Neocortex
  12. CHAPTER 2
  13. THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS ON THINKING
  14. CHAPTER 3
  15. A MODEL OF THE NEOCORTEX: THE PATTERN RECOGNITION THEORY OF MIND
  16. A Hierarchy of Patterns
  17. The Structure of a Pattern
  18. The Nature of the Data Flowing into a Neocortical Pattern Recognizer
  19. Autoassociation and Invariance
  20. Learning
  21. The Language of Thought
  22. The Language of Dreams
  23. The Roots of the Model
  24. CHAPTER 4
  25. THE BIOLOGICAL NEOCORTEX
  26. CHAPTER 5
  27. THE OLD BRAIN
  28. The Sensory Pathway
  29. The Thalamus
  30. The Hippocampus
  31. The Cerebellum
  32. Pleasure and Fear
  33. CHAPTER 6
  34. TRANSCENDENT ABILITIES
  35. Aptitude
  36. Creativity
  37. Love
  38. CHAPTER 7
  39. THE BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED DIGITAL NEOCORTEX
  40. Brain Simulations
  41. Neural Nets
  42. Sparse Coding: Vector Quantization
  43. Reading Your Mind with Hidden Markov Models
  44. Evolutionary (Genetic) Algorithms
  45. LISP
  46. Hierarchical Memory Systems
  47. The Moving Frontier of AI: Climbing the Competence Hierarchy
  48. A Strategy for Creating a Mind
  49. CHAPTER 8
  50. THE MIND AS COMPUTER
  51. CHAPTER 9
  52. THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS ON THE MIND
  53. Who Is Conscious?
  54. You Gotta Have Faith
  55. What Are We Conscious Of?
  56. East Is East and West Is West
  57. Free Will
  58. Identity
  59. CHAPTER 10
  60. THE LAW OF ACCELERATING RETURNS APPLIED TO THE BRAIN

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