# A Working Theory of Love

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- Book: [A Working Theory of Love](https://www.bookquiver.com/scott-hutchins/a-working-theory-of-love) ([A Working Theory of Love.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/scott-hutchins/a-working-theory-of-love.md))
- Authors: [Scott Hutchins](https://www.bookquiver.com/scott-hutchins)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-256-5
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2014-03-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Silicon Valley: home of online start-ups, couture coffee, sexual meditation, and the future. In its midst, Neill Bassett is helping to build the world's first artificial intelligence - a computer that talks, thinks, lies, and if all goes to plan, feels bad about it too. But when the experiment swerves in an unexpected direction, Neill is forced to confront a few buried feelings of his own - for his ex-wife, for his dead father, for his twenty-first-century life, and for a very twenty-first-century woman called Rachel, who might just hold the answer to it all...