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Oh boy, Kurzweil is having fun writing down his thoughts however unrelated they may be to the book's thesis. Good for a conversation, not that much for a book people pay for.

Impressive that at 16, Kurzweil was already interested in AI modeling and had the guts to send a letter to one of the pioneers of the neural net movement in the 70's.

Helpful diagrams to understand the old brain design

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.