New York Times bestseller: Ray Kurzweil’s How to Create a Mind
November 26, 2012
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil is now #5 on the New York Times Bestseller List for Hardcover Nonfiction.
It came out at #1 among all books on the Barnes & Noble bestseller list and went into its third printing one week after publication.
The book is available from the book website and from all major booksellers, and is available in all popular e-book formats.
In the book, Kurzweil explores reverse-engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works, then applying that knowledge to create vastly intelligent machines.
“Kurzweil’s new book on the mind is magnificent, timely, and solidly argued, his best so far,” said Dr. Marvin Minsky, MIT Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and cofounder of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, widely regarded as the “father of artificial intelligence.”
How to Create a Mind is Ray Kurzweil’s seventh book, joining The Age of Intelligent Machines, The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life, The Age of Spiritual Machines, Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever, The Singularity Is Near, and Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever.
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Comments (18)
by Ron Feigenblatt
Last evening I quickly read this wonderful book on the Kindle of a visiting friend. I am blown away by its assertion that neocortex architecture largely consists of 100-neuron modules which act as primitive general-purpose pattern-recognition atoms and link with peers in hierarchies to create the mind! But what is the functional significance of the 60,000-neuron cortical columns? And what a pity that the chart on the transistor count of microprocessors makes numerous (and obvious) errors in transcribing Intel’s cited source. Is it the only chart with mistakes? Is there a Web page for errata?
by Vladimir
Hm… Still haven’t received my copy of the book, I wrote a mail to sreed@kurzweiltech.com and still no reply… oh well.. I really wanted to read it though, Ray is one of the few that talks about things that I’ve sorta felt are inevitable since a little boy. Cheers:)
by Michael
I received my t-shirt but no book as yet…
by Editor
Michael: please contact sreed@kurzweiltech.com
by Gabriel
Congradulations to Ray Kurzweil — he deserves every praise he gets :).
by Nehluxhes
Speaking of which, I still haven’t received mine, I just got the T-shirt (and american ‘L’ is…well way larger than where I live :D but well, wasn’t really planning to wearing it anyway)
Is there some problems with oversea shippings?
by sblack
Thanks for your inquiry which we’ve forwarded directly to customer support for the book; you should receive a response shortly. –Sarah Black (Managing Editor)
by sblack
PS — If you could please e-mail SReed@KurzweilTech.com with your reply e-mail address for a response that would be terrific, thanks! –Sarah
by Nehluxhes
Email sent, thanks for your help!
by DCWhatthe
This is what happens when the topics you choose to pursue and write about, happen to be relevant to most of humanity.
by Harry Manback
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by richiemobile
I can’t wait to read it!
by GAUSS
Many congratulations to Mr. Kurzweil and the Kurzweil AI team. Having received my copy of the book a week ago, I’m already 75% of the way through it. It’s definitely going to warrant a second reading, and many more yet.
by Sally Morem
Congrats!
by Jason Adair
Congratulations Mr. Kurzweil! =o)
by eldras
Fantastic! Well done! What an ambassador for high tech. This book alone will cause 100′s pf millions in investment capital to be proffered A.I. is exploding everywhere after a long A.I. Winter. The EU is with it’s trillions is eying A.I. projects at last.
As this accelerates hopefully we can pick up the old, the weak the poor and the dead.
eldras
https://sites.google.com/site/quantumarchaeology/
by ProfessorZ
Congrats!!!! Awesome book, I’ve been reading it over the weekend
by MrFriendly
Congrats, Ray. :)