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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