{"product_id":"galatea-2-2-paperback","title":"Galatea 2.2 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Powers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force.--Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of \u003ci\u003eGalatea 2.2\u003c\/i\u003e--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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRICHARD POWERS\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of a dozen novels, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eincluding \u003ci\u003eThe Overstory\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Echo Maker\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction, and is a four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724314021951,"sku":"9780312423131","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d024339e6ec8f7c2baa776645e44969c_2e6b143b-3194-4b79-a56d-94b8e61c6ca9.webp?v=1765102245","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/galatea-2-2-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}