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Photo: Photo by Helene DeLillo,<br />

courtesy of Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.<br />

10<br />

new york times bestseller<br />

How to Create a Mind<br />

The Secret of Human Thought Revealed<br />

Ray Kurzweil<br />

Ray Kurzweil is arguably today’s most influential futur-<br />

ist. In How to Create a Mind, he presents a provocative<br />

exploration of the most important project in the humanmachine<br />

civilization: reverse-engineering the brain to<br />

understand precisely how it functions and using that<br />

knowledge to create even more intelligent machines.<br />

Kurzweil discusses how the brain works, how the mind<br />

emerges, brain-computer interfaces, and the implications<br />

of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence to<br />

address the world’s problems. Certain to be one of the most<br />

widely discussed and debated science books of the year,<br />

How to Create a Mind is sure to take its place alongside<br />

Kurzweil’s previous classics.<br />

Ray kuRZweil is one of today’s<br />

leading inventors and the author of<br />

The Singularity Is Near and The Age of<br />

Spiritual Machines, among other books.<br />

He lives in Boston.<br />

“ It is rare to find a book that offers unique<br />

and inspiring content on every page. . . . This<br />

is a visionary work that is also<br />

accessible and entertaining.”<br />

—Rafael Reif, president, MIT<br />

“ This book is a Rosetta stone for<br />

the mystery of human thought.<br />

. . . Kurzweil deals with the subject of<br />

consciousness better than anyone . . . His<br />

persuasive thought experiment is of Einstein<br />

quality: It forces recognition of the truth.”<br />

—Martine Rothblatt, chairman and CEO of<br />

United Therapeutics and creator of Sirius XM<br />

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