{"product_id":"galatea-22","title":"Galatea 2.2","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781804951729\u003cbr\u003eFormat: B-format paperback\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brand new edition of the thrilling novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Overstory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead this thrilling and timely novel of the human soul from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Overstory.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter many years of living abroad, a young writer returns to the United States to take up a position at his former college. There he encounters Philip Lentz, an outspoken neurologist intent on using computers to model the human brain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLentz involves the writer in an outlandish and irresistible project - to train a computing system by reading a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the machine grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own age, sex, race and reason for existing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An ingenious, ambitious, at times dizzily cerebral work... It soars and spins... The novel attains an aching, melancholy beauty' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41494987538565,"sku":"PR396861","price":35.3,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TNX95V3TSKWU.jpg?v=1768901588","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/galatea-22","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}