- Taschenbuch: 336 Seiten
- Verlag: B&T; Auflage: Reprint (Mai 1996)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0060976926
- ISBN-13: 978-0060976927
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,3 x 13,5 x 2,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.9 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (23 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 511.044 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Cognitive neurologist and well-known writer team up to produce a machine that can pass a comprehensive exam in English literature, with predictably unpredictable results. Like The Gold Bug Variations, this is another of Powers' wild, unforgettable novels encompassing science, philosophy, and the frailty of mankind.
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Powers, in his mid-30s and with four well-received books under his belt (Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance; The Gold Bug Variations; etc.), is among our most prodigious young novelists, and without a doubt our most cerebral. He seems bent on proving the novel to be a form capable of housing all manner of human thought and expression: art, music, genetic theory, linguistics and philosophy. In Galatea 2.2, Powers, known as an extremely private person, is writing about himself?Richard Powers, the cerebral author of four novels?in a most intimate fashion, detailing his loves, passions and failings. His objective, however, is nothing so mundane as self-portraiture. Typically, he has a bigger idea: in exploring the nature of consciousness, he is trying to build a conscious novel in much the same way that the novel's fictional Powers is trying to spark consciousness in a university computer. The result is a kind of double simulation of intelligence that is breathtakingly elegant. Powers the character, returns to a Midwestern university with a huge computer science department, after several years in Holland, where he has left behind the love of his life, who saw him through the first four books. As a visiting writer, his job is to bombard a computer network, which he comes to call Helen, with literature, music and conversation so that it will recognize beauty in some neuronal simulation, and therefore become conscious of it. Meanwhile, Powers reveals his life, including his career as a novelist (down to the mentioning of a rare picture of him in a PW interview four years ago). It's as if both Helen and the novel itself can be programmed into self-consciousness. In the course of tutoring Helen to be able to successfully interpret a piece of text in a manner indistinguishable from a human, Powers and Helen form an enchanting though eerie bond: she has "read" all his books; he knows her circuitry. Still, there remain mysteries that can't be accounted for by electron paths, in Helen's case, or by a theory of the self, in Powers's case. In the end, Powers is left with the conviction he started with: that intelligence is irreducible; it cannot be known. Although parts of the book seem hastily done or weakly felt (the university folk are rather two-dimensional, and Powers's crush on a rail-thin, obnoxious grad student is simply unaccountable), these are minor flaws in an otherwise ingenious performance.
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One of my favorite novels,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Galatea 2.2, English edition (Taschenbuch)
Richard Powers is my favorite contemporary novelist and this book is easily one of his best. For their combination of intelligence and emotional complexity, his books have no rivals. In Galatea 2.2. I was once again immersed in a world rich with ideas and human desire, a world where the emotional rawness of C. and the philosophical curiosity of the neural network Helen illustrate the vast range of our age-old need for understanding. In the end, this novel illuminates not only the power of narrative, but our absolute need for it. It reminds us how greatly we depend on stories to understand the world, and to understand ourselves. The narrator Richard's best shot at explaining the world to Helen is by sharing the story of his own life -- the one true story he really knows. Powers suggests that our most intimate stories are carried through life as beautiful burdens -- narratives with the power to haunt, but ultimately save us. This book, like all of Powers' novels, will move you and inspire you. It's a hard one to shake from your mind.
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As Complex as Life,
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Galatea 2.2, English edition (Taschenbuch)
Having just finished Galatea 2.2 I turn to the Amazon.com reviews to see what other people got out of it - but have I really gotten out of the book or is this just another self referential extension of it? - maybe he will incorporate these reviews into his next "autobiographical" fiction!I loved the book. I have lived it for the last two weeks. I have no claim to an objective interpretation of it, but I rolled with it. I enjoyed the embedded literary references to works that I thought I had long forgotten. It reminded me how much I loved literature once and how important I thought it was. It reminded me of my own Taylors. The relationship with C. seems pretty integral to the story unless one is trying to read Galatea as sci-fi, which I don't think we can blame Powers for. That relationship and the book as a whole seem as ambiguous and complex as real life. Galatea was an illumination to me not because it provided any real answers, but simply because it cast more light in the dimness that often shrouds everyday life and everyday suffering. I enjoyed the cognitive noodling, but I didn't take it as science as much as metaphor: Waking up to the millions of ways the mind can look at itself and still not really know much about anything. Other reviewers seem to assume that the narrator and the author are basically identical. This is a big assumption. I personally think that Powers probably wove his story backwards from his previous books, and the only autobiographical elements are those that were already in the public record. As far as I can tell, no one really knows much about Power's actual life, and it is seems unlikely that he would forego the privacy he has striven to maintain by incorporating the details of his private life (esp. a relationship with "C.") in this book. Emotionally, I'd actually like to think of the book as autobiographical, but... I'll be rereading this book for a while, hopefully parsing some of the sentences that I couldn't figure out how to untie. Operation Wandering Soul is next on my list. Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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A wordgeek who gets it...,
Von Chris McKinstry (South America) - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Galatea 2.2, English edition (Taschenbuch)
I've been training artificial neural networks for over a decade and reading literature my entire life. This is the first time I've seen someone who really knows how to write, write knowingly about the process of knowing.The "1980's era technical jargon" that a previous reviewer claims is tossed around carelessly is, speaking as someone who actually works every day with neural networks, remarkably well informed, and perfectly used. The only flaw in Power's idea being that his concept of what constitutes a training set is exceptionally unrealistic. The future will see artificial consciousness come into being, much as Power's speculates. The training set however, will be much more exhaustive than Power's has imagined... millions, if not billions of consensus facts all entered and validated by millions of internet users. But I digress... the book stands well above its one flaw. Read it and enjoy. Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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