Galatea 2.2, Paperback

Descriere

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 exisiting.

Despre autor

Richard Powers

romancier american · n. 1957

Richard Powers este un romancier american al cărui operă explorează efectele științei și tehnologiei moderne. Romanul său „The Echo Maker” a câștigat Premiul Național al Cării pentru Ficțiune în 2006. De-a lungul carierei sale, a câștigat numeroase alte premii, inclusiv o bursă MacArthur.