The Leonard Lopate Show | Revealing the secret of human thought

November 20, 2012

The Leonard Lopate Show — November 20, 2012 | Leonard Lopate

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Futurist Ray Kurzweil discusses how the brain functions, how the mind emerges from the brain, and the implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence in addressing the world’s problems.

In How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, he examines emotional and moral intelligence and the origins of consciousness and envisions the radical possibilities of our merging with the intelligent technology we are creating. | Listen to the radio interview here.