The Future of the Mind
The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
Ratings6
Average rating3.8
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The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
Ratings6
Average rating3.8
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I enjoyed this so much! His writing is so approachable that I'm eager to read more of his books.
Good and quite basic overview of all things neuroscience mixed with Artificial Intelligence research, Quantum Consciousness and some physics. Kaku lightens reports on state-of-the-art research with mentions of popular scifi books and movies. He ends with detailed speculation and extrapolation of some of today's research ideas into the future.
Some really interesting stuff that, over and over, descends into silliness that is not just goofy in how it relates sci fi to real world tech, but extremely credulous or over-ambitious and not at all wary of the dangers of the things it's proposing. The actual, scientific, brain stuff is interesting. The “maybe we could recreate The Force from Star Wars” stuff feels amateurish and goofy.
