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Pattern Recognition is a novel by science fiction writer William Gibson published in 2003. Set in August and September 2002, the story follows Cayce Pollard , a 32-year-old marketing consultant who has a psychological sensitivity to corporate symbols.
Aged 32 during the events of Pattern Recognition, Cayce lives in New York City.Though named by her parents after Edgar Cayce, she pronounces her given name "Case". [4] She is a freelance marketing consultant, a coolhunter with an unusual intuitive sensitivity for branding, [5] manifested primarily in her physical aversion to particular logos and corporate mascots. [6]
The first revision of the book was retitled Elohim the Archetype (Original) Pattern of the Universe. The Archetype is still in print today and is currently published and distributed by the Institute. Though the volumes were rearranged in Elohim the Archetype, the titles of each volume of God the Archetype are as follows:
Kurzweil's book How to Create a Mind was released in 2012. [43] In it he 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. [44]
[1] [2] The stories feature human history on the planet Pern, which might be called human-draconian society for its lifelong inter-species relationships between humans and dragons. Anne McCaffrey wrote all the Pern stories until 2003; as of 2012, eight books by her son Todd McCaffrey or by Anne and Todd have continued the series.
The series is set in the Third Age of a fantasy world in which the pattern of human existence is determined and maintained by the Wheel of Time, a cosmic embodiment of eternal return. The Wheel spins the Pattern of the Ages, manifest in both the physical world and human destiny, using the lives of men and women as its threads, and individuals ...
Critics felt the subtitle of the book, The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, overpromises. Some protested that pattern recognition does not explain the "depth and nuance" [3] of mind including elements like emotion and imagination. Others felt Kurzweil's ideas might be right, but they are not original, pointing to existing work as far back as ...
Humans as Gods (Russian: Люди как боги, translit. Lyudi kak bogi) is a 1966–1977 science fiction trilogy by Soviet author Sergey Snegov.Despite being initially intended as a parody on space opera, mythological and religious cliché, the novels embody a complex set of ideas on the fundamental principles of the world's structure and development, and the directions of the ...