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.
Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great.
There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks.
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