Review & Analysis of Kurzweil's How To Create A Mind (The Gist Of It Club Book 1)
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The Gist Of It Club provides extensive reviews of popular current books, intentionally longer than typical newspaper reviews, so that our reviewers can fully present the ideas contained within these books, and reference other works that either support or disagree with the ideas.
Because these reviews are typically limited to ten to fifteen pages in length, our reviewers can focus on the ideas and their context in today’s world.
When a book is controversial, our reviewers try to “step outside” the book to maintain impartiality, and document the sources of praise or criticism for the ideas. While we hire reviewers who are familiar with the author’s subject matter, we carefully avoid reviews by experts who are known to be critical of an author’s work.
Computer scientist Ray Kurzweil, both noted and notably eccentric, presents a theory of the human mind that relies heavily on the human brain’s exceptionally good ability to recognize patterns and choose the correct behavior based on a given pattern or set of patterns.
Based on this, he prophesizes with certainty that computers will achieve intelligence, and speculates on how human and computer intelligence will augment each other, or even merge into one.
Professionals in neurobiology and related fields such as information science will find that the book presents a relatively narrow hypothesis as a global explanation for the workings of an organ as complex as the human brain.
Because these reviews are typically limited to ten to fifteen pages in length, our reviewers can focus on the ideas and their context in today’s world.
When a book is controversial, our reviewers try to “step outside” the book to maintain impartiality, and document the sources of praise or criticism for the ideas. While we hire reviewers who are familiar with the author’s subject matter, we carefully avoid reviews by experts who are known to be critical of an author’s work.
Computer scientist Ray Kurzweil, both noted and notably eccentric, presents a theory of the human mind that relies heavily on the human brain’s exceptionally good ability to recognize patterns and choose the correct behavior based on a given pattern or set of patterns.
Based on this, he prophesizes with certainty that computers will achieve intelligence, and speculates on how human and computer intelligence will augment each other, or even merge into one.
Professionals in neurobiology and related fields such as information science will find that the book presents a relatively narrow hypothesis as a global explanation for the workings of an organ as complex as the human brain.
