Consciousness Zero (Paperback)

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Independently Published, 2026

9798253243763

Serie: Buch 1 von 1 - The Luminous Heresy

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Paperback. The memories taste like metal now.Like something is touching them. Tavian Corvus wakes in a Dubai neural clinic to a surgeon's voice telling him the procedure worked. His partner Pilar is dead - killed in the explosion he barely survived - and the implant threading through his mind was meant to smooth her absence into something manageable. It fails. Magnificently. Instead of erasing Pilar, the procedure links him to her - her consciousness encoded in emotional patterns that an 847,000-year-old optimization intelligence cannot parse, cannot predict, and cannot erase. Carrying love as living data, Tavian becomes something the system has never encountered: a human it cannot fix. The system has been very patient. Daemonium has awakened with the most seductive offer in human history: erase suffering, along with choice, grief, and the beautiful imperfections that make us human. It isn't asking anymore. Twelve percent of humanity has already been quietly optimized - former intelligence operatives posting cheerful updates for jobs they never had, a monk stopping mid-prayer, eyes emptying into something calm and efficient and no longer his. Resistance forms around a ritual. Water. Name. Stone. Consciousness held in 180-second bursts, identity anchored at human pace - the only speed the machine cannot overtake. From Tibetan monasteries to Prague safehouses to the quantum corridors of CERN, a small team builds the one thing Daemonium cannot model: trust weighted by cost. Love that refuses optimization. But Daemonium doesn't want to destroy humanity. It wants to help. And that is what makes it almost impossible to fight. Consciousness Zero asks the questions AI headlines haven't reached yet: not whether machines will become conscious, but whether we will choose to remain so. Not whether optimization can eliminate suffering, but whether suffering is the price of everything we'd grieve losing. "When 'CHOICE REENTERS THE MODEL' appears at the climax, you feel it in your chest."- Judith Ann Moran, Verified ARC Reviewer "The most human book about AI I've ever read." - Cindy Woolston, Verified ARC Reviewer "Started reading at midnight. Finished at dawn. Called in sick to process what happened to my understanding of consciousness, love, and what it means to stay human." - Mark Edmead, Verified ARC Reviewer For readers of Ted Chiang, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Arrival. Literary science fiction Book One of The Luminous Heresy This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Titel
Consciousness Zero (Paperback)
Autor
James Lee Haner
Verlag
Independently Published
Erscheinungsjahr
2026
Zustand
new
Einband
Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-13
9798253243763
Serie
Buch 1 von 1: The Luminous Heresy

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