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Fascinating predictions about the potential of artificial intelligence.

"Another restriction of the human neocortex is that there is no process that eliminates or even reviews contradictory ideas, which accounts for why human thinking is massively inconsistent. We have a weak mechanism to address this called critical thinking but this skill is not practiced nearly as often as it should be." True, Kurzweil, lol.

The author seems to think that his readers are fucking morons.

Kurzweil goes through a page describing an unnamed scientist working on light as a particle and a wave. Who was looking into the relativity of time versus speed. Then he reveals to the ignorant reader that it was none other than Einstein. What age group is this for?

I'm hoping Kurzweil goes a little deeper. So far this is pop sci garbage dressed up as neuroscience.

Every bit of that book is new knowledge opening my eye on how our mind works