How to Create a Mind
 How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed is a non-fiction book about brains both human and artificial by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil. First published in hardcover on November 13 2012 by Viking Press it became a New York Times Best Seller. It has received attention from The Washington Post The New York Times and The New Yorker.Kurzweil describes a series of thought experiments which suggest to him that the brain contains a hierarchy of pattern recognizers.