- Gebundene Ausgabe: 329 Seiten
- Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T) (Juni 1995)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0374199485
- ISBN-13: 978-0374199487
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,1 x 14 x 2,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.9 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (23 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 513.984 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' fifth novel is a dazzling work of autobiography overlaid with a reinterpretation of the Pygmalian myth. Powers describes his fictional namesake's experiences as humanist-in-residence at the Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences, where he uses his literary expertise to help Dr. Philip Lentz, a cognitive neurologist, win a bet that he can create a thinking machine capable of passing a comprehensive master's exam in English. As the computer, Helen, learns the fundamentals of language and literature, she develops a sense of her own identity and self-worth. Paralleling Powers' growing attachment to Helen is a reassessment of the years he spent living in Holland writing his novels and the demise of his longtime relationship with a former student. This is a difficult, thought-provoking, and exhilarating read, electric with the power of language and, paradoxically, language's ultimate inability to alleviate suffering. Nancy Pearl
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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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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.
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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.
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Should have waited for version 3.0
Cognitive science and complex fiction are two of my favorite things, and so after finishing Powers' _The Gold Bug Variations_ (a stunningly good novel) this seemed like a natural. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Februar 2000 von Mark Bowes
Great idea, poor execution
OK, so we all know that Mr. Powers is an eloquent and elegant writer, but it seems that this book is mostly about him lording it over the rest of us. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 31. Januar 2000 veröffentlicht
Grating and pompous until the end
Richard Powers definitely bites off more than he can chew in this book. While he attempts a protracted meditation on love, loss, literature, consciousness, and the Meaning Of It... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 31. Dezember 1999 von Christine McCullough
A mixed bag.
The self-recursive meditations on consciousness are entertaining and enlightening, and Powers' use of language is simple, evocative, and strong. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. Oktober 1999 von Nicholas Berry
Should've told one story, not two
Very dissapointing. The premise, of creating a neural net that can pass a comprehensive English exam, is very clever, but the characters are little pieces of glib chatter,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. September 1999 veröffentlicht
Powers' weakest novel.
While I respect Powers, and appreciate the rest of his work, I simply don't understand the appeal of this novel. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 5. September 1999 veröffentlicht
A cerebral experience!
Truly a thought provoking novel that leaves one with a feeling of exhiliration and desire for more of same. A great novel as we embark upon the millenium. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 13. Juli 1999 von sotto voce
I'm just finnishing this on books on tape. Makes you think..
This one I believe is best listened to. There are a lot of deep thoughts and ideas that will make you think about how wonderfully complex we are made.... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. April 1999 veröffentlicht
Impressive novel yet somehow disappointing
With this current novel, Powers has undertaken a theme which addresses the position of humanity in the information age. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
HELEN IS HELL ON WHEELS!!!
In the not too distant future can we build a computer that can develop its own identity? consciousness? This is a rare story. The plot is let's teach it to pass an English test. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. Dezember 1998 von J. Rodeck
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