“My own field, pattern recognition… is the fundamental capability of the human brain. We can't think fast enough to logically analyze situations quickly, so we rely on our powers of pattern recognition.”

—  Ray Kurzweil

"The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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