Tag: How to Create a Mind
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PZ Myers does not understand Ray Kurzweil
PZ Myers wrote an essay claiming that “Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain”, which has some good points, but is entirely based on the premise that Kurzweil says we will reverse-engineer the brain from the genome, that contains 25 million [relevant] bytes, or a million lines of code (second-hand comments on erroneous press reports, taken out…
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How to Create a Mind
So excited, just received a package with the new book by Ray Kurzweil, “How to Create a Mind” (and with it, an inscribed bookplate!)