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Galatea 2.2

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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.

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Wonderfully compelling writing let down by a narrator with no talent. I was disappointed by the way the narrator chose to diminish emotion in favour of nothingness

Powers is a masterful writer

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The tech parts were nice. The author can’t write people though. It’s like a self obsessed teen boy destined to be an incel wrote a book. Skip all parts including his take on ‘woman’ and relationships (80% of book) and it’s kind of cute (20% of book).
Correction. The tech part also ends in trash. Lost me at
‘he wants to do brain surgery on the computer.’. Really?

The story is horrible

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