Galatea 2.2 Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Richard Powers
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 125 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Galatea 2.2 Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Richard Powers
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 125 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Section I (pages 0-30)

• Richard Powers returns to the U.S., to an appointment at the Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences, after living with his lover C. in the Netherlands.

• As he settles into his new location, Richard meets Philip Lentz, who is working on a machine that he is training to recognize beauty.

• Richard alternates scenes of getting involved in Lentz's circle of researchers, and reminiscing about his ex-lover C.

Section II (pages 31-64

• Richard and C. were together for 10 years while Richard established himself as an author.

• Richard finds Lentz coarse and insulting to the other researchers, but Richard is nevertheless drawn into his project of training a machine to be conscious.

• Lentz intends to train the machine to take the Turing Test in ten months, and hopes that it can do as well as a college student.

Section III (pages 64-90)

• Richard reminisces...

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