Galatea 2.2: A Novel (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Galatea 2.2: A Novel Saturday, August 1 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Galatea 2.2: A Novel Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Richard Powers:

Shelfari edited the contributors of Galatea 2.2: A Novel Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: Richard Powers: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Galatea 2.2: A Novel Thursday, July 16 2009.

• It was like so, but wasn't.