Galatea 2.2 e-bog
81,03 DKK
(inkl. moms 101,29 DKK)
"e;Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force."e;-Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAfter 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 ...
E-bog
81,03 DKK
Forlag
Picador
Udgivet
1 januar 2004
Længde
352 sider
Genrer
FA
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781466803688
"e;Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force."e;-Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAfter 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.