It’s in the New York Review of Books here. Beautifully written and with important lessons for all of us who study mind…read it!
Category: Ray Kurzweil
Kurzwiel’s new book…and his new job
Don Tapscott’s excellent review of How to Create a Mind is here. Oh…and Kurzweil’s new gig? Director of engineering at Google.
Paul Allen Smackdown of the Singularity
From Technology Review, hat tip Andrew Sullivan: here. Bottom-line, the “complexity brake” will arrest our acceleration towards Kurzweil’s Singularity.
And the argument has as its basis, the complexity problem as far as a general theory of neuroscience is concerned.
Since I don’t share Kurzweil’s rosy vision of his Singularity, I’m pleased. In addition, this should keep us neuroscientists employed well into the future.
