Marisa Johnson

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Marisa.

http://www.youtube.com/user/risaroo55
https://www.goodreads.com/risaroo55

bone
Marisa Johnson is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
nejma
Marisa Johnson is currently reading
by Nayyirah Waheed (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Robert Kennedy: H...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 11 books that Marisa is reading…
Loading...
William Allingham
“Not like Homer would I write,
Not like Dante if I might,
Not like Shakespeare at his best,
Not like Goethe or the rest,
Like myself, however small,
Like myself, or not at all.”
William Allingham, Blackberries

Ray Kurzweil
“Finally, our new brain needs a purpose. A purpose is expressed as a series of goals. In the case of our biological brains, our goals are established by the pleasure and fear centers that we have inherited from the old brain. These primitive drives were initially set by biological evolution to foster the survival of species, but the neocortex has enabled us to sublimate them. Watson’s goal was to respond to Jeopardy! queries. Another simply stated goal could be to pass the Turing test. To do so, a digital brain would need a human narrative of its own fictional story so that it can pretend to be a biological human. It would also have to dumb itself down considerably, for any system that displayed the knowledge of, say, Watson would be quickly unmasked as nonbiological.”
Ray Kurzweil, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

Ray Kurzweil
“By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality.”
Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Ray Kurzweil
“Yes, well, the subjective experience is the opposite of the objective reality”
Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

Ray Kurzweil
“How Smart Is a Rock? To appreciate the feasibility of computing with no energy and no heat, consider the computation that takes place in an ordinary rock. Although it may appear that nothing much is going on inside a rock, the approximately 1025 (ten trillion trillion) atoms in a kilogram of matter are actually extremely active. Despite the apparent solidity of the object, the atoms are all in motion, sharing electrons back and forth, changing particle spins, and generating rapidly moving electromagnetic fields. All of this activity represents computation, even if not very meaningfully organized. We’ve already shown that atoms can store information at a density of greater than one bit per atom, such as in computing systems built from nuclear magnetic-resonance devices. University of Oklahoma researchers stored 1,024 bits in the magnetic interactions of the protons of a single molecule containing nineteen hydrogen atoms.51 Thus, the state of the rock at any one moment represents at least 1027 bits of memory.”
Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

year in books
Katie S...
238 books | 85 friends

Megan G...
296 books | 337 friends

Mike
66 books | 298 friends

Robin W...
19 books | 113 friends

Rasha R...
1 book | 175 friends

Nate
167 books | 116 friends

Jenn Me...
0 books | 189 friends

Micheal...
0 books | 392 friends

More friends…


Polls voted on by Marisa

Lists liked by Marisa