Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Stephen Grossberg has been called the Father of AI because he introduced the field of neural networks in 1957 as a seventeen-year-old college freshman. He has also been called the Newton and Einstein of the Mind because of his revolutionary discoveries to the present toward explaining the processes whereby our brains make our conscious and unconscious minds in both healthy individuals and clinical patients. His 2021 Magnum Opus, Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind, provides a self-contained and non-technical overview and synthesis of his neural network models since 1957, which proposes how our brains solve the Mind–Body Problem. The book won the 2022 PROSE book award in Neuroscience of the Association of American Publishers. The current book shows how our brain’s neural networks have been specialized during evolution to carry out creative processes that enable the human condition, including visual art, music, and language meanings. Grossberg begins by describing how his early life experiences prepared him to write knowledgably about how humans consciously experience and learn visual art, music, and meaning. Grossberg ends the book by contrasting biological neural networks that his work exemplifies with other current approaches to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Grossberg shows that AI contributions like Deep Learning and ChatGPT have foundational problems. His work provides a blueprint for implementing autonomous adaptive intelligence into the engineering, technology, and AI, on which our civilizations can securely build. His work provides hope that scientific understanding can develop constructively hand-in-hand with engineering, technology, and AI.</jats:p>