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Galatea [gal-eh-TEE-eh] lies 37,200 kilometers (23,100 miles) from Neptune.
It has a diameter of 180 kilometers (110 miles) and completes an orbit in 10 hours, 18 minutes.
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 Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2
This anecdote from the lore of the artificial intelligence world deftly maps the territory covered by Galatea 2.2 -- the space where a human mind interacts with what it perceives (rightly or wrongly) to be its mirror image -- an artificial intelligence.
The fictional protagonist is named Richard Powers, and by using his own name the real-life author implies that the book is somewhat of an autobiographical nature.
In the light of this relationship and of Helen's vulnerability (as you might expect she has many childlike qualities), Galatea 2.2 explores human relationships and the power brokerage often inherent in them, the defining power of memory on the personality, and ultimately what it means to be human.
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 Nordlit
In both Galatea 2.2 and Brave New World there are direct references and subtle allusions to Shakespeare's play which I feel must reside in the realm of ideas and values as well as the obvious textual one.
We meet Caliban in act I, scene 2, where he is called forth as a "poisonous slave" (Shakespeare, 75).
Some of Richard's closest fellow human beings and places where he has spent years of his life, are only named by their initial capital letter, as are the successive implementations of the neural network.
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 Galatea Information Strategies
Cocoon was originally a DOM-based application known as Cocoon 1.
Cocoon 2, the current SAX-based version, was first released in November of 2001.
There is also a more recent book in German, Cocoon 2 und Tomcat.
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 onhifi.com -- Hot Product Archives -- Blue Circle Audio BC3 Galatea Preamplifier
The Blue Circle BC3 Galatea is smack in the middle of the BC3 line.
The BC3 Galatea is housed in two polished boxes of bent stainless steel: one, bearing shoebox proportions, houses the dual-transformer truly balanced (common-mode rejecting) DC power supply; the other contains the audio circuitry.
I auditioned the BC3 Galatea with a variety of power amplifiers, including the Krell FPB-300c, the Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista 300, the VTL TT-25s, and the Ayre V-5.
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 Galatea 2.2
Galatea 2.2 contains a wide array of characters that come from different backgrounds.
However, the two main characters Richard, Lentz, and Helen are the characters that I feel go through the ultimate test during this novel.
I think that he may have even decided to live a little more because he makes the statement, "Life meant convincing another that you knew what it meant to be alive" (Powers 327).
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If a number is followed by a bracket, this indicates that a player "doubles" on another instrument eg 2(picc) indicates that one of the two Flautists must also play Piccolo.
A number followed by + indicates that rather than a doubling, an extra player is required for that instrument, ie 2+ Bs indicates that 2 Clarinets plus a Bass Clarinet are needed.
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 Amazon.com: Galatea 2.2: A Novel: Books: Richard Powers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
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.
The main character in Galatea 2.2 is a man named Richard Powers, a man who has written three novels and is just finishing his fourth as the book opens.
Richard Powers' Galatea 2.2 is, I trust, a semi-autobiographical novel since it features the author as first person with his name intact.
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 Galatea in 2-D
The title evokes images of a creator in love with his creation, and in that regard Galatea in 2-D is faithful: Illustrator Roger Simons discovers that his painting of a magical nymph comes to life in full, three dimensional form.
Poor Roger is down on his luck after being slandered by an incident in which he supposedly sent cardboard blanks to Nonesuch Books.
All in all, Galatea in 2-D is less about Galatea and more about the artist.
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 Galatea 2
While Powers never has his characters fully leap into anthropomorphizing Helen, he gives her a sufficiently affecting character that the reader begins to empathize with her much as she does with the other characters in the book.
Galatea 2.2 definitely falls in the "strong AI" camp, since Helen takes on human-like characteristics by the end of the novel.
While the book uses AI more as a vehicle for philosophizing, Powers presents a very readable explanation of the current state of AI.
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 Galatea 2.2 Essays -- Formal Analysis of Galatea 2.2
Writers of science fiction found it necessary to employ the traditional style of the novel in their modern works.
This is one of the main points in Richard Powers' "Galatea 2.2".
"Galatea 2.2"’s fantastic is not a concrete one: the fictional plan appears here to be natural.
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 Mythography | The Greek Lovers Pygmalion and Galatea in Myth and Art
The Greek Lovers Pygmalion and Galatea in Myth and Art
Pygmalion saw so much to blame in women that he came at last to abhor the sex, and resolved to live unmarried.
When Pygmalion had performed his part in the solemnities, he stood before the altar and timidly said, "Ye gods, who can do all things, give me, I pray you, for my wife" - he dared not say "my ivory virgin," but said instead - "one like my ivory virgin."
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 The Long and Winding Road: March 2005 Archives
I'm intrigued to see how this story wraps up - there are so many things that need to be addressed that it'll be interesting to see how Powers (the author) does it.
As I've blogged more, I have become much more comfortable with this format of writing, and believe these entries are significantly better than the ones I wrote for EL150 last spring.
2) In Blogging 101, I reflected on my past blogging experiences and discussed how Amanda and Julie helped reaquaint me with the ins and outs of this academic experience.
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 Aaron Allston FAQ (Galatea In 2-D)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
It has been pointed out to me on many occasions that the title Galatea In 2-D is more than a little cryptic.
"Galatea" is the name that late Classical commentators on Greek mythology gave to the statue that King Pygmalion of Cyprus is said to have carved — the one that the goddess Aphrodite brought to life.
She is, therefore, an example of art brought to life, as is the character Elsie from my novel.
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 Galatea 2.2 Essays - Relationships in Galatea 2.2
Galatea 2.2 Essays - Relationships in Galatea 2.2
In Galatea 2.2, the narrator's interactions with C. and with Helen, a.k.a.
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 Galatea 2.2 Study Guide
Although it is his fifth novel in print, its metafictional approach helps to explain a great deal about his earlier work.
Powers discusses each of his books in some detail, providing initial readers of his work with valuable information that will help them to understand it.
Although Galatea 2.2 provokes and requires considerable thought, it is in many respects the least demanding of Powers's novels to date.
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 Galatea 2.2, Online Reading Club Book Reviews
Power's Galatea 2.2 was interesting to me in terms of how far a computer can progress in order to take part in human activities such as conversations, relationships, philosophical reflection, and emotions.
The book succeeded as an insightful description of how a computer would learn a language through constant discussion with a human being.
Although I enjoyed this book mainly for its delving into the issue of future digital intelligence, I enjoyed Power's writing, especially his ability to balance many seemingly unconnected themes into one book.
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 Powers, Richard. Galatea 2.2
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 SciFan: Books: Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, collections)
SciFan: Books: Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, collections)
Like The Gold Bug Variations, this is another of Powers' wild, unforgettable novels encompassing science, philosophy, and the frailty of mankind.
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.
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 Galatea 2.2 Summary / Study Guide
Galatea 2.2's autobiographical character is unabashedly named Richard Powers.
Tell a friend about Galatea 2.2 at eNotes.
Simply highlight the word and press SHIFT + D for a definition.
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Track 2: Guitar Concerto No. 1 in A, Op.
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 Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers: Book reviews, book club recommendations and recipes!
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers: Book reviews, book club recommendations and recipes!
After four novels and several years of 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.
Powers drills it in Chaucer and Austen and James, a crash course that elicits a violent reconsideration of his own literary vocation, his decade-long, failed relationship with a former pupil, and his growing obsession with the twenty-two-year-old master's candidate against whom his cybernetic Helen is slated to compete.
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Accroding to Cervantes, he wrote 20-30 plays, but only two copies have survived.
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It received little contemporary notice and Cervantes never wrote the continuation for it, which he repeatedly promised.
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 Thiamin Trek Weblog Archives: Notes on Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Thiamin Trek Weblog Archives: Notes on Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
I loved The Gold Bug Variations so much that I leapt into this one.
In all, a very good book, but not without flaws.
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