Ray Kurzweil is arguably today’s most influential futurist. In How to Create a Mind, he presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in the human-machine civilization: reverse-engineering the brain to understand precisely how it functions and using that knowledge to create even more intelligent machines. Kurzweil discusses how the brain works, how the mind emerges, brain-computer interfaces, and the implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence to address the world’s problems. 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.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
Ray Kurzweil is arguably today’s most influential futurist. In How to Create a Mind, he presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in the human-machine civilization: reverse-engineering the brain to understand precisely how it functions and using that knowledge to create even more intelligent machines. Kurzweil discusses how the brain works, how the mind emerges, brain-computer interfaces, and the implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence to address the world’s problems. 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.
Friday, November 13, 2015
The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us
The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
They all laughed
Intro
- The odds were a hundred to one against me
- The world thought the heights were too high to climb
- But people from Missouri never incensed me
- Oh, I wasn't a bit concerned
- For from hist'ry I had learned
- How many, many times the worm had turned
1st verse
- They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round
- They all laughed when Edison recorded sound
- They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother when they said that man could fly
- Why, they told Marconi wireless was a phoney — it's the same old cry
- Why they laughed at me, wanting you — said I was reaching for the moon
- But oh, you came through — and now they'll have to change their tune
- They all said we'd never get together — they laughed at us and how
- For oh, ho, ho — Who's got the last laugh now?
2nd verse
- They all laughed at Rockefeller Center — now they're fighting to get in
- They all laughed at Whitney and his cotton gin
- They all laughed at Fulton and his steamboat — Hershey and his chocolate bar
- Ford and his Lizzie kept the laughters busy — that's how people are
- Why they laughed at me, wanting you — said it would be "Hello — Goodbye"
- But oh, you came through — and now they're eating humble pie
- They all said we'd never get together — darling, let's take a bow
- For oh, ho, ho, Who's got the last laugh —
- Hee, hee, hee, Let's have the last laugh —
- Ha, ha, ha, Who's got the last laugh now?
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation
Explaining Creativity is an accessible introduction to the latest scientific research on creativity. The book summarizes and integrates a broad range of research in psychology and related scientific fields. In the last 40 years, psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists have devoted increased attention to creativity; we now know more about creativity than at any point in history. Explaining Creativity considers not only arts like painting and writing, but also science, stage performance, business innovation, and creativity in everyday life.
Sawyer's approach is interdisciplinary. In addition to examining psychological studies on creativity, he draws on anthropologists' research on creativity in non-Western cultures, sociologists' research on the situations, contexts, and networks of creative activity, and cognitive neuroscientists' studies of the brain. He moves beyond the individual to consider the social and cultural contexts of creativity, including the role of collaboration in the creative process.
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