Where in the Brain is the Mind I just wanted to let everyone here know if they don`t already that Richard Powers` exquisite novel

Galatea 2.2 asks and eloquently unravels to an extent the question about the ghost in the machine. Without giving away too much, the narrator`s a humanist/novelist who teams up with a

cognitive neurologist at a bad-ass research institute and the two proceed to cultivate and coax an artificial intelligence out from the

hardware of a neural network. Their goal is to get

the AI to pass the Turing Test by testing it against an English lit grad student. The novel

does not halfstep on the hard science tip. It`s

intensely cerebral and poetic. And what`s more it draws the obvious parallels between the mind and the collective consicousness of the WWW in very compelling ways.