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

by Ray Kurzweil

simplify molecular models by creating functional equivalents at different levels of specificity, ranging from my own functional algorithmic method (as described in this book) to simulations that are closer to full molecular simulations. The speed of learning can thereby be increased by a factor of hundreds or thousands depending on the degree of simplification used. An educational program can be devised for the simulated brain (using the functional model) that it can learn relatively quickly. Then the full molecular simulation can be substituted for the simplified model while still using its accumulated learning. We can then simulate learning with the full molecular model at a much slower speed.