In Kathleen Stein’s new book, The Genius Engine … we take an interesting look at where “memory, reason, passion, violence and creativity intersect.”
Stein affirms what we’ve seen again and again here at Brain Based Business … the brain’s prefrontal cortex appears to be the hub of reason, perception, and emotional processing. Stein’s book shows how these operations mix to create up unique human genius. 
Kathleen Stein draws on current research of the prefrontal cortex, and then shows what happens when normal operations fail in this area. She opens a new window into why anger can turn into violence, inattention can nudge us away from focus, passion beats out logical decisions, and how creativity uses art as a window into the brain.
A final section of this book welcomes the reader to reconsider the world of artificial intelligence and what we can expect in the future of machines that stimulate prefrontal cortex neural operations. Stein shows how scientists are well on their way to rewiring replications of the human brain into a fully functioning machines – a rather serious statement from a neuroscientist journalists with a mind for showing us the core of human genius in another light.
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