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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Steve:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Your new book “</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">YOUR CREATIVE BRAIN AND AI: How We Learn and Consciously Experience ART, MUSIC,
and MEANING” looks fascinating, and I was impressed to learn that you “have <span style="color:black">
been called the <b>NEWTON AND EINSTEIN OF THE MIND</b>”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">This reminded me of an anecdote from a paper, TOWARDS A THEORY OF LANGUAGE PERFORMANCE, that Pierre Lavorel and I published in 1977:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:11.55pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">“About ten years ago, a meeting was held to discuss the possible directions for a proposed Max-Planck-Institute in Linguistics. During
a cocktail party conversation, a number of linguists began to debate whether Chomsky were better viewed as the Newton or Einstein of their field; they were insulted when a psychologist [Derek Broadbent] suggested that Euclid would offer a more apt comparison.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Best wishes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Michael <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xgmailquote" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Here is the book blurb:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xgmailquote" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xgmailquote" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;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><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></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><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></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><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xgmailquote" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="xgmailquote" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">He is often called the<b> FATHER OF AI
</b>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><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xgmailquote" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xgmailquote" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">He has also been called the
<b>NEWTON AND EINSTEIN OF THE MIND </b>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><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></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><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xgmailquote" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Best,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xgmailquote" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Steve</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xgmailquote" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="xgmailquote" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Stephen Grossberg</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Director, Center for Adaptive Systems</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Emeritus Professor of Mathematics & Statistics, Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Boston University</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">sites.bu.edu/steveg/</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0078D7"><a href="mailto:steve@bu.edu" title="mailto:steve@bu.edu"><span style="color:#0078D7">steve@bu.edu</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0078D7"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Grossberg__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!vPE7wQSFC7MSetQwmyU5tlbgJldTB8w7Vo4sVDSGelfWF33iEpzHFUCtSVMwTiOC257viDbH7A$" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Grossberg"><span style="color:#0078D7">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Grossberg</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0078D7"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/scholar.google.com/citations?user=3BIV70wAAAAJ&hl=en__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!vPE7wQSFC7MSetQwmyU5tlbgJldTB8w7Vo4sVDSGelfWF33iEpzHFUCtSVMwTiOC255nj_zXSg$" title="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3BIV70wAAAAJ&hl=en"><span style="color:#0078D7">http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3BIV70wAAAAJ&hl=en</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0078D7"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/sites.bu.edu/steveg/files/2021/08/Grossberg-CV-8-14-21.pdf__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!vPE7wQSFC7MSetQwmyU5tlbgJldTB8w7Vo4sVDSGelfWF33iEpzHFUCtSVMwTiOC256wzr2isQ$" title="https://sites.bu.edu/steveg/files/2021/08/Grossberg-CV-8-14-21.pdf"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://sites.bu.edu/steveg/files/2021/08/Grossberg-CV-8-14-21.pdf</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0078D7"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/youtu.be/9n5AnvFur7I__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!vPE7wQSFC7MSetQwmyU5tlbgJldTB8w7Vo4sVDSGelfWF33iEpzHFUCtSVMwTiOC256CZVC6rw$" title="https://youtu.be/9n5AnvFur7I"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://youtu.be/9n5AnvFur7I</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0078D7"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hBye6JQCh4__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!vPE7wQSFC7MSetQwmyU5tlbgJldTB8w7Vo4sVDSGelfWF33iEpzHFUCtSVMwTiOC257VNxQlFQ$" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hBye6JQCh4"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hBye6JQCh4</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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