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BK · Book · 2005 · novel

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

The machines

None. Cloning, and an institution.

What people do all day

Students become carers; carers become donors. The vocabulary, the milestones and the professional pride are complete and entirely sincere. The purpose was manufactured for someone else's benefit and is experienced as one's own.

Pattern

Assigned meaning — A system hands you a purpose, and it is sufficient.

Note

Contains no AI whatsoever, and is the clearest account here of assigned purpose. Included deliberately — see Method.


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