Your brain contains roughly 300 million tiny pattern recognizers, each one following the same simple set of rules. According to Ray Kurzweil’s How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, these recognizers work together. Everything you experience as uniquely human emerges from one repeated process. If Kurzweil is right, human-level artificial intelligence isn’t just possible—it’s inevitable. We can build machines that truly think by copying the brain’s hierarchical ap...
