In it Kurzweil describes his Pattern Recognition Theory of Mind and argues that emulating this architecture in machines could lead to an artificial superintelligence .
His Pattern Recognition Theory of Mind is the theory that the neocortex is a hierarchical system of pattern recognizers .
In it Kurzweil describes his Pattern Recognition Theory of Mind , the theory that the neocortex is a hierarchical system of pattern recognizers , and argues that emulating this architecture in machines could lead to an artificial superintelligence .