The Brain and Mind discussion

Just finished reading the new book by Michio Kaku called The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind. Kaku explores the advances that have occurred in neuroscience since the brain-imaging revolution of the 1990s; and also details the advances that are to come (including telepathy, telekinesis, uploading and downloading memories, and AI). It's a fascinating discussion of one of the final frontiers of science. I've written an executive summary of the book available here: http://newbooksinbrief.com/2014/03/11...

I agree. The "Future of mind" is a fascinating science book that describes the latest advances and state of the art in neuroscience, mind, brain, memory, artificial intelligence and other related themes. Kaku writes with an easy to read style that explains in a very simply manner the most complicated topics in science. I particularly liked the advances in the research of mind can help to alleviate some diseases like Alzheimer and others. In some parts I feel it speculates too much about future scenarios: robots, AI, brain implants, surrogates, etc. It makes a lot of references to science fiction movies. However it is good book if you want to be up to date in the latest topics in the field of neuroscience. My review here