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A computer that thinks like a person has long been the dream of computer designers. The author uses his 35 years of computer design experience to describe the mechanisms of a thinking computer. These mechanisms include recall, recognition, learning, doing procedures, speech, vision, attention, intelligence, and consciousness. Included are experiments that demonstrate the mechanisms described. The experiments use software that the reader can download from the internet and run on his or her personal computer (PC). The software includes a large engram file containing knowledge we use on a daily basis. Engrams are the computer programs of the brain. Additional experiments allow the reader to write and run new engrams. The instruction set of the human brain is described in detail and is used to write the engrams. The computer architecture of the human brain is first described and how it is based on cognitive links. Standard methods of computer design are next used to convert the architecture into thinking computer implementations spanning a range of performance levels. Lastly, the operation of a thinking computer is presented.

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Robert S. Grondalski has been designing computers for over 35 years. He was at Digital Equipment Corporation in Maynard, Massachusetts for 18 years where he designed PDP-11 and VAX computers, and led the design of the DEC Massively Parallel Processor. He then worked at Cyrix Corporation in Richardson, Texas for 5 years where he designed the high performance Pentium compatible microprocessors: M1, M1RX, and M2. More recently, he was with HAL Computer Systems in Campbell, California and Fujitsu Processor Technologies in Austin, Texas designing very high performance SPARC microprocessors. Currently he is with a major technology company where he has designed two generations of ARM processors. He has many patents in the field of computer design.

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