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Dear Connectionists colleagues,</div>
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My new book was published yesterday by Oxford University Press!</div>
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Lots of readers may be interested in it because it discusses topics that are relevant to neural networks, computational neuroscience, connectionist cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, engineering, technology, and AI, as well as to the arts and humanities.</div>
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Here is information about the book:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22pt; color: black;"><b>YOUR CREATIVE BRAIN AND AI:</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: black;"><b>ART, MUSIC, and MEANING</b> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: black;"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: black;"><u><a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/61813" target="_blank" title="https://academic.oup.com/book/61813" data-outlook-id="735ac5d7-6ff0-4dde-9edb-1fb6337d2a31" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://academic.oup.com/book/61813</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: black;">It is also available on Amazon in hardcopy and Kindle:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: black;"><u><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Your-Creative-Brain-Consciously-Experience/dp/0198965370" target="_blank" title="https://www.amazon.com/Your-Creative-Brain-Consciously-Experience/dp/0198965370" data-outlook-id="259cb565-e8bd-4435-ad66-e4e65fd509ea" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.amazon.com/Your-Creative-Brain-Consciously-Experience/dp/0198965370</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: black;">Here is the book blurb:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: black;">“How do our brains give rise to our conscious minds? How do our minds learn and consciously experience miraculous creations of our civilizations, such as visual art, music, and the
languages whose meanings enable us to think and communicate about our experiences in the world?</span></p>
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“How does human learning and language differ from some Artificial Intelligence algorithms that fail to explain how human minds work? Unlike these AI algorithms, whose flaws are explained in the book, human brains provide a blueprint for the paradigm of autonomous
adaptive intelligence that promises to revolutionize all aspects of society during this century and beyond.</span></p>
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“This book provides an introductory and self-contained description of exciting answers to these questions that modern theories of mind and brain have proposed. For over 50 years, Stephen Grossberg has been internationally acknowledged to be the most important
pioneer and current research leader whose work explains how our brains make our minds. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: black;">He is often called the<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; color: black;"><b>FATHER OF AI
</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: black;">because he introduced the modern neural networks paradigm in 1957 as a Dartmouth college Freshman, as well as the main equations that help to explain how our brains make
our minds. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: black;">He has also been called the
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; color: black;"><b>NEWTON AND EINSTEIN OF THE MIND
</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: black;">because he and many gifted collaborators have subsequently developed neural network models of essentially all the main processes whereby our brains make our conscious and
unconscious minds in both healthy individuals and clinical patients.</span></p>
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“Grossberg published his award-winning <i>Magnum Opus, Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind</i>, in 2021 to provide a self-contained and non-technical overview and synthesis of these discoveries. The current book describes his recent
discoveries about art, music, and meaning in accessible language intended to appeal to all readers who love art and music, and who wonder about the mystery of how languages acquire meaning.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: black;">Best,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: black;">Steve</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Stephen Grossberg</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Director, Center for Adaptive Systems</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Emeritus Professor of Mathematics & Statistics, Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Boston University</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">sites.bu.edu/steveg/</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 120, 215);"><u><a href="mailto:steve@bu.edu" title="mailto:steve@bu.edu" data-outlook-id="179ed384-4ae4-4e2b-8a32-47c3e782b20d" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">steve@bu.edu</a></u></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 120, 215);"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Grossberg" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Grossberg" data-outlook-id="aac3d33a-9a1e-4ffe-b8e5-a409a0410aa0" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Grossberg</a></u></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 120, 215);"><u><a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3BIV70wAAAAJ&hl=en" title="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3BIV70wAAAAJ&hl=en" data-outlook-id="342941d6-716c-44ee-8147-c8777e3327e6" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3BIV70wAAAAJ&hl=en</a></u></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 120, 215);"><u><a href="https://sites.bu.edu/steveg/files/2021/08/Grossberg-CV-8-14-21.pdf" title="https://sites.bu.edu/steveg/files/2021/08/Grossberg-CV-8-14-21.pdf" data-outlook-id="7dac1bc7-ff23-4cdd-9422-32c254ad7129" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://sites.bu.edu/steveg/files/2021/08/Grossberg-CV-8-14-21.pdf</a></u></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 120, 215);"><u><a href="https://youtu.be/9n5AnvFur7I" title="https://youtu.be/9n5AnvFur7I" data-outlook-id="c7f97905-8446-46f3-981e-685a0f65e4d8" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://youtu.be/9n5AnvFur7I</a></u></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 120, 215);"><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hBye6JQCh4" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hBye6JQCh4" data-outlook-id="bb51577e-6b09-4af5-9058-f1908cff1fb8" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hBye6JQCh4</a></u></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 120, 215);"><u><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Mind-Resonant-Brain-Makes/dp/0190070552" title="https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Mind-Resonant-Brain-Makes/dp/0190070552" data-outlook-id="82880e2c-51fc-437b-b642-6f41ca72c970" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Mind-Resonant-Brain-Makes/dp/0190070552</a></u></span></p>
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