How to Create a Mind
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"How to Create a Mind" is a nonfiction book by futurist Ray Kurzweil that explores the workings of human intelligence and proposes designs for advanced artificial intelligence based on the brain’s principles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| How to Create a Mind canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1216988 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: How to Create a Mind Context triple: [Ray Kurzweil, notableWork, How to Create a Mind]
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A.
Society of Mind
Society of Mind is a seminal book by Marvin Minsky that proposes a theory of human intelligence as emerging from the interactions of many simple, non-intelligent agents within the mind.
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B.
The Emotion Machine
The Emotion Machine is a 2006 book by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky that explores how human thinking and emotions can be understood as computational processes of the mind.
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C.
The Concept of Mind
The Concept of Mind is a 1949 philosophical work by Gilbert Ryle that critiques Cartesian dualism and introduces the idea of mental concepts as dispositions rather than inner ghostly states.
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D.
How We Think
How We Think is a foundational philosophical and educational work by John Dewey that analyzes the nature of reflective thought and its role in effective learning and problem-solving.
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E.
The Human Brain
The Human Brain is a popular science book by Isaac Asimov that explains the structure, function, and mysteries of the human brain for a general audience.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: How to Create a Mind Target entity description: "How to Create a Mind" is a nonfiction book by futurist Ray Kurzweil that explores the workings of human intelligence and proposes designs for advanced artificial intelligence based on the brain’s principles.
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A.
Society of Mind
Society of Mind is a seminal book by Marvin Minsky that proposes a theory of human intelligence as emerging from the interactions of many simple, non-intelligent agents within the mind.
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B.
The Emotion Machine
The Emotion Machine is a 2006 book by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky that explores how human thinking and emotions can be understood as computational processes of the mind.
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C.
The Concept of Mind
The Concept of Mind is a 1949 philosophical work by Gilbert Ryle that critiques Cartesian dualism and introduces the idea of mental concepts as dispositions rather than inner ghostly states.
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D.
How We Think
How We Think is a foundational philosophical and educational work by John Dewey that analyzes the nature of reflective thought and its role in effective learning and problem-solving.
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E.
The Human Brain
The Human Brain is a popular science book by Isaac Asimov that explains the structure, function, and mysteries of the human brain for a general audience.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book about artificial intelligence
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cognitive science book ⓘ nonfiction book ⓘ |
| advocates | reverse engineering the human brain ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
guide the design of advanced artificial intelligence
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provide a theory of how the human mind works ⓘ |
| argues |
AI can surpass human intelligence
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human intelligence is based on pattern recognition ⓘ the neocortex uses a repeated algorithm ⓘ |
| author | Ray Kurzweil ⓘ |
| compares | biological brains and digital computers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describes |
how the brain processes patterns
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similarities between human and machine intelligence ⓘ structure of the neocortex ⓘ |
| genre |
artificial intelligence
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nonfiction ⓘ popular science ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| hasPart |
case studies of existing AI systems
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discussion of Turing test ⓘ discussion of consciousness ⓘ discussion of free will ⓘ discussion of future AI applications ⓘ discussion of hierarchical hidden Markov models ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
neuroscience research on the neocortex
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pattern recognition algorithms ⓘ |
| ISBN | 978-0670025299 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
linking brain science to AI engineering
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popularizing pattern recognition theory of mind ⓘ |
| proposesConcept |
hierarchical pattern recognition in neocortex
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pattern recognition theory of mind ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2012 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Penguin Books
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The Viking Press ⓘ
surface form:
Viking Press
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| relatedWork |
The Age of Spiritual Machines
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The Singularity Is Near ⓘ |
| subject |
artificial intelligence
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brain modeling ⓘ cognitive science ⓘ future of AI ⓘ human intelligence ⓘ machine learning ⓘ neuroscience ⓘ pattern recognition ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: How to Create a Mind Description of subject: "How to Create a Mind" is a nonfiction book by futurist Ray Kurzweil that explores the workings of human intelligence and proposes designs for advanced artificial intelligence based on the brain’s principles.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.