{"id":3529,"date":"2011-07-18T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:37:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:37:44","slug":"goodreads-review-the-most-human-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2011\/07\/18\/goodreads-review-the-most-human-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodreads Review: The Most Human Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/files\/2011\/06\/goodreads_logo_140.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2011\/06\/goodreads_logo_140.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"30\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3437\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Did you know that the library has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/show\/667663-loyola-university-chicago-libraries\">Goodreads account<\/a>?  Send us a friend request and see what we&#8217;ve been reading!  Here&#8217;s a recent review by one of our staff members.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><strong>The Most Human Human &#8211; Brian Christian<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cudahy Main Stacks: BD450 .C5356 2011.<\/p>\n<p>If you had to prove to someone that you were a real human being and not just a convincing fake, how would you do so?  And what does this question tell us about what it means to be human, as well as to be &#8216;real&#8217;?  Author Brian Christian meanders through fields as widespread as linguistics, poetry, artificial intelligence, and philosophy in a quest to win a contest against a computer for who can seem the most human.  Readable, funny, and thought-provoking, The Most Human Human will fascinate you &#8211; as much for the intruiging detours as for the main concept.  <\/p>\n<p><em>Review by Ursula Scholz<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the library has a Goodreads account? Send us a friend request and see what we&#8217;ve been reading! Here&#8217;s a recent review by one of our staff members. The Most Human Human &#8211; Brian Christian Cudahy Main Stacks: BD450 .C5356 2011. If you had to prove to someone that you were a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":3437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3531,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions\/3531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}