Galatea 2.2 - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:St. Martins Press-3PLISBN-13:9780312423131ISBN-10:312423136UPC:9780312423131Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Medical, Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.85Product ID:SC86Z7VWTR
"Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2--Richard Powers--returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for existing.Languages:EnglishPublisher:St. Martins Press-3PLISBN-13:9780312423131ISBN-10:312423136UPC:9780312423131Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Medical, Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.85Product ID:SC86Z7VWTR
RICHARD POWERS is the author of a dozen novels, including The Overstory, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, as well as The Echo Maker, which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction, and is a four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains
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