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I like how he starts off with two great thinkers, Darwin and Einstein, and how they unified the seemingly discordant disciplines of biology (in the 1850s) and physics (in the 1900s). They are examples of the impressive capability of the human brain as their theories were obtained merely through the pen and paper analysis.
He continues, why can't we do the same for neurology and understanding the brain? So he does.

Waaah it has been tougher to follow through this book. Main message: do not let Watson take you job.

Kurzweil likes the Turing test... a red flag as to how much a reader should trust his claims

Hmmm .. A lot of assumptions and postulations. Not sure I can read further. Really enjoyed the first chapter though .

To raise our own awareness of how our brains work,
Try this: Recite the alphabet.
You probably remember this from childhood and can do it easily.
Okay, now try this: Recite the alphabet backward.

This suggests that our memories are sequential and in order. They can be accessed in the order that they are
remembered. We are unable to directly reverse the sequence of a

Somos conscientes mesmo com tantas ações inconscientes? Ou até nosso cérebro nos ilude com essas falsa consciência vinda do subconsciente?

Will I ever finish my homework at this rate?

Pretty important talks and rehashes of the free will problem and why consciousness might be able to be put in computers.

Listening in bed.l 5:30pm. Hungover from drinking brand with adebayo in my "office" planning our assault and mastery of big data to the world

Listening in bed.l 5:30pm. Hungover from drinking brand with adebayo in my "office" planning our assault and mastery of big data to the world

Listening in bed.l 5:30pm. Hungover from drinking brand with adebayo in my "office" planning our assault and mastery of big data to the world

on beginning chapter 5: 4hr12/10hr05
been listening to whilst tidying up paperwork and walking through stratford

well done koolio :)

More incessant human bashing and praise for artificial neural circuits and their tenfold efficiency over men.

Sim, podemos reproduzir programas para evolui-los. A categoria do criador: algoritmos genéticos...hauahua muito massa.

Sim, até 2020 a Skynet estará aqui, mas seu nome será Blue Brain.

É...metáforas para mim são um problema...rsrsrsrs

Von Neumann machines explained

from darpa to nuance to Siri. hmm interesting

piece by piece the brain functions are explained but rather hard to follow some of the maths around it. conclusion so far? we are dopamine junkies

“A mente que se abre a uma nova idéia jamais volta a seu tamanho original” – Albert Einstein

rather ok way to describe the complexity of frontal cortex

So far is Einstein theories and nothing specific on frontal cortex. OK he brags about Nuance tech is used in Siri and Watson (own company). nevertheless I'm biased over AI, if that creature don't have blood and veins so his choices consider his fragility . that's why I wanted to hear what the leading transhumanism has to say

No tan impactante como La Singularidad, pero el modelo del pensamiento humano me parece muy interesante!

Kurzweil's big idea so far: model the brain with hierarchical hidden Markov models.

Sparse Coding: vector quantization, he used them in developing the voice recognition technology.

At the laundromat. Just started this...

I love when Ray goes off with products and systems pertinent to the subject in which he explains hierarchically.

I'm not in mood to continue reading it right now. This book is about how the brain works. The thing that is matter to me right now is, how we can use the brain or anything else (an engineering approach)

Hmmmm....Why is this (AI) not centre stage?

Amazing <3