Ray Kurzweil

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

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  • Ольга Молотиловаhas quoted2 years ago
    Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
  • Ольга Молотиловаhas quoted2 years ago
    Only Homo sapiens have a knowledge base that itself evolves, grows exponentially, and is passed down from one generation to another.
  • Vasily Betinhas quoted6 years ago
    Greater neocortical capacity enabled this new species to create and contemplate thoughts at higher conceptual levels, resulting in the establishment of all the varied fields of art and science.
  • Vasily Betinhas quoted6 years ago
    Intelligence may be defined as the ability to solve problems with limited resources
  • Vasily Betinhas quoted6 years ago
    The reason I became interested in trying to predict certain aspects of technology is that I realized about thirty years ago that the key to becoming successful as an inventor (a profession I adopted when I was five years old) was timing. Most inventions and inventors fail not because the gadgets themselves don’t work, but because their timing is wrong, appearing either before all of the enabling factors are in place or too late, having missed the window of opportunity.
  • Vasily Betinhas quoted6 years ago
    Therefore the future state of the universe is completely unknowable even though it is deterministic.
  • Vasily Betinhas quoted6 years ago
    110 automaton and class IV automata in general is that the results are completely unpredictable.
  • Vasily Betinhas quoted6 years ago
    Dr. Wolfram’s primary thesis is that the world is one big class IV cellular automaton.
  • Vasily Betinhas quoted6 years ago
    principal enemy of free will: determinism.
  • Vasily Betinhas quoted6 years ago
    issue of free will
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