‘Mystery of the self’: embodied personhood and artificial intelligence in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me
Textual Practice April 22, 2025 Saswati Swayamprava, Nagendra Kumar
ABSTRACT This article undertakes an examination of the subjective experiences of the artificial intelligence portrayed in Ian McEwan’s novel Machines Like Me. Addressing the ontological status of Adam, an artificial intelligence, the investigation employs David Herman’s strategies of recategorising characters as persons and nonpersons to highlight the phenomenological richness of the...