Cajsa Lilliehook has a review of an intriguing new high-tech thriller on her book blog: The Perfect Wife by JP Delaney, which seems like Philip K. Dick meets Gone Girl.
"It starts out like a conventional women's thriller," Cajsa explains. "She wakes up, feels strange, memories are there but confusing. It seems like the usual waking-up-after-accident-thriller where someone dies or loses memory. But no, son and husband are alive. She's dead. And a cobot (companion robot) is waking up with her consciousness."
As that suggests, the novel touches on themes and ideas many New World Notes readers may find appealing. More from Cajsa:
"The book has this idea that given consciousness, the AI can continue to learn beyond the confines of its programming. It has empathy. It is a form of immortality, this idea of uploading consciousness through memory. Upload memories...program the ability to think, it can almost create memories of things not added. Not almost: It does create memories from knowing personality, facts, and reasoning.
"Then it questions who owns the cobot: The company who built it or the family of the person whose life has been put into the cobot? There is a legal fight, her family wants her undone and she and her creator/husband do not. She wants to live!"
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