I highly recommend this book to anyone who has experience with AI computers. it is a book which, in the final analysis, its author identifies what a computer cannot do employing artificial intelligence.
on p. 30 one of the main characters, Laura, states, “and all this - this, artificial intelligence nonsense. i don’t know how he let steve convince him he could somehow copy his soul into a computer!”
in my books and blogs i have defined with documentation the soul as having attributes of mind, will and emotion, and also conscience. Materialists maintain that the human mind is an emergent property that reduces to the material brain, and nothing else. the book’s characters designed a computer named rodin, programming it so it would think like a human - be creative, autonomous, introspective and have self-awareness. in excerpts to come i shall elaborate on how the author addresses this point, acknowledging the role of intelligent design in the formulation of the human soul.