Galatea 2.2 by Powers, Richard

Galatea 2.2 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312423131)

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Format: Paperback
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Galatea 2.2 by Powers, Richard

Galatea 2.2

$20.00
Galatea 2.2 by Powers, Richard

Galatea 2.2

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Richard Powers
ISBN-10: 0312423136
ISBN-13: 9780312423131
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2004
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
New Yorker (The) 10/05/2009 pg. 80
By Richard Powers
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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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