THE MOST HUMAN HUMAN What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive

Christian examines what it means to be human, focusing on something called the Turing Test, to which he happily subjects himself. The book encompasses a lot of material—from philosophy to aspects of human nature and beyond. Ultimately, the subject matter is scattered across too large a field and uses too many tangential examples. As a narrator, Christian is functional. He plays it straight, covering topics that run from chess to hockey, and from the syntax of language to the process of file compression. This book, however, should be reserved for deep thinkers only. M.B. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2011]