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The Birth of Reason: How Intelligence Emerges in Humans and Neural Networks

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The Birth of Reason: How Intelligence Emerges in Humans and Neural Networks
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Imagine you're at the supermarket, reaching for your favorite yogurt, but at the last minute, you choose an unfamiliar brand. What makes you suddenly change your mind or act against your own convictions?

Cognitive psychologist Jay McClelland and neuroscientist Gaurav Suri explain the driving force behind our actions without a single formula using the idea of emergence. Our brain contains about a hundred billion cells, but not a single one of them can think. Only by working together do they create what we call intelligence. At the supermarket shelf, our choices are influenced by several factors—attention, mood, habit, a recent advertisement—and we go for the most compelling one, then rationalize our choice.

The authors explain how these same principles drive neural networks, which were originally created as a model of the brain, how they resemble us, where they already surpass us, and where we are still stronger.
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