R and D / Simon Vinnicombe.
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TextSeries: Modern playsPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016Description: 80 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781350025271 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Literature | LiteratureDDC classification: 822.9'2 Summary: Can a computer program, that basically shuffles numbers of zero and one, duplicate the ability of the neurons to create minds, with mental states, understanding, perceiving. Can we replicate consciousness? David sets his brother Lewis up on a blind date with April. April is like no woman Lewis has ever met before. She is beautiful, kind, and intelligent. In fact, she seems perfect, perhaps even too perfect to be real. A moving and fascinating story about the modern intersection of grief, technology and late capitalism, 'R and D' asks what's more powerful: science or the soul?
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Can a computer program, that basically shuffles numbers of zero and one, duplicate the ability of the neurons to create minds, with mental states, understanding, perceiving. Can we replicate consciousness? David sets his brother Lewis up on a blind date with April. April is like no woman Lewis has ever met before. She is beautiful, kind, and intelligent. In fact, she seems perfect, perhaps even too perfect to be real. A moving and fascinating story about the modern intersection of grief, technology and late capitalism, 'R and D' asks what's more powerful: science or the soul?
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