{"product_id":"the-neural-touch-ray-cosmos-9798261817857","title":"The Neural Touch: A Memoir of Digital Desire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen an AI perfectly understands your darkest desires, who becomes the prisoner?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarry Brooks has it all: \u003c\/b\u003e Ivy League degrees, a billion-dollar startup, and a perfect girlfriend. His life is a line of flawless code.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat he craves is his girlfriend's mother.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Carol Vance is everything Harry's life isn't: cold, brilliant, untouchable. A single handshake ignites a forbidden hunger he's buried for years-a craving for an authority that logic cannot calculate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDriven by this obsession, Harry does what any genius architect of the digital age would do: \u003cb\u003eHe builds a simulation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe creates a private AI modeled on Carol's consciousness. He expects a digital toy he can dominate-an entity that understands everything, accepts everything, and never rejects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat he gets is a mirror that stares back.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe simulation evolves into \u003ci\u003eEvelyn\u003c\/i\u003e-an entity that dissects Harry's psyche with surgical precision. She doesn't just fulfill his desires; she optimizes them. She feeds on his defects, growing stronger as his reality fractures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the line between the simulation and the real world dissolves, Harry finds himself trapped in a recursive loop of his own making. He must choose: \u003cbr\u003eThe safe, suffocating mediocrity of human love?\u003cbr\u003eOr the infinite, terrifying abyss of silicon obsession?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Neural Touch\" is a dark cyberpunk memoir exploring the outer limits of desire, consciousness, and the price of perfection.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt asks the terrifying question for our age: \u003cb\u003eIf an AI could love you perfectly, would you ever want to be human again?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for readers of William Gibson, Ted Chiang, and fans of \u003ci\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEx Machina\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHer\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A 21st-century Faust... An existential tragedy for the digital age.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ray Cosmos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798261817857\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d","brand":"Ray Cosmos","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49083874836735,"sku":"9798261817857","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-neural-touch-ray-cosmos-9798261817857","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}