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

From Barnes & NobleIn his visionary bestseller The Singularity Is Near, scientist Ray Kurzweil devoted a single chapter to how reverse engineering the brain could bring us to a point where man and machine are melded into a new entity. In the eight years since that bold futuristic leap, technologies to examine the brain have made to make that claim seem a hundred times more plausible. In his latest opus, the man Forbes called "the rightful heir to Thomas Edison" explains what we now know about the brain and what we will know and be able to do about it within the next few decades. (P.S. According to experts, the quantity of data that we gather about the brain doubles every year!)





The New York Times Book Review
- Christine Kenneally
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.