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...