In my early days as a researcher in Artificial Intelligence in the 1980's, I envisaged writing a program that could 'capture' the essence of a person. It was my naive hope, and to some extent belief, that somehow the insights of a great novelist could be expressed in software. Reading about 'Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software' the 2013 book by Vikram Chandra, purportedly explaining how writing fiction was akin to coding software, naturally intrigued me. Perhaps Chandra was able to accomplish the synthesis I had been aiming for.
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