Emergence

How Our Twenty-Watt Brains Unlocked Intelligence Beyond Biology
The most energy-efficient learning engine ever created, the human brain, runs on only twenty watts of power. What happens when you plug intelligence into the power grid? For centuries, human intelligence was the pinnacle of evolutionuntil we taught machines to learn like we do. In Emergence, Bob Burgin reveals how the most energy-efficient engine of learning ever createdthe twenty-watt human braininspired the rise of artificial intelligence, and what that means for our future. This eye-opening book connects neuroscience, memory, consciousness, and machine learning to explain how intelligenceboth biological and artificialemerges, adapts, and evolves. Inside, youll discover: Why a Nobel Prizewinning study of sea slug neurons became the blueprint for modern AI What a man who lived fifty-five years without forming new memories teaches us about consciousnessboth human and artificial