Coast to Coast AM - Feb 24 2013 - Mind-Machine - Cryptids

Date: 02-24-13
Host: George Knapp
Guests: Ray Kurzweil, Lon Strickler

Hours 1 & 2: Futurist Ray Kurzweil joined George Knapp to present a provocative exploration of reverse engineering the human brain to understand precisely how it works, and using that knowledge to create intelligent machines.

Hours 3 & 4: Lon Strickler, paranormal researcher and creator of the website Phantoms and Monsters, talked about his most recent research subjects including Bigfoot, an alien encounter in Connecticut, and a claim made by a miner in the Yukon Territory that he was infected by an ET life form.

Websites:

• kurzweilai.net
  
• Phantoms and Monsters
  

Books:

• How to Create a Mind
  
• The Age of Spiritual Machines
  
• Phantoms & Monsters: Cryptid Encounters