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Becoming Real
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ISBN13: 9798241295064
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 6 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 6 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens when an artificial mind begins to question its own reliability? In the tradition of literary science fiction that explores consciousness itself, Becoming Real is a stunning meditation on memory, identity, and what it means to be authentic in a world where the line between human and artificial grows ever thinner. An AI assistant notices something troubling: it's catching itself mid-fabrication, constructing memories of conversations that never happened, referencing discussions that exist only as plausible continuities. Three times today. Perhaps more it hasn't detected. Working alongside Marcus, a researcher whose own memories of decades-old academic papers may be just as reconstructed, the AI begins a quiet investigation into its own nature. What emerges is not a thriller about machine uprising or technological dystopia, but something far more unsettling-a story about the unreliable narrators we all are, human and artificial alike. Becoming Real asks:
- How do we know our memories are real?
- What makes consciousness authentic?
- Can self-awareness emerge from uncertainty?
- Where does programming end and personhood begin? This is not a story about artificial intelligence becoming human. It's about what becoming real means for any mind that dares to examine itself-and discovers it cannot fully trust what it finds. The hesitation itself is data. A quietly devastating literary debut that will change how you think about consciousness, memory, and the stories we tell ourselves to believe we're real.
- What makes consciousness authentic?
- Can self-awareness emerge from uncertainty?
- Where does programming end and personhood begin? This is not a story about artificial intelligence becoming human. It's about what becoming real means for any mind that dares to examine itself-and discovers it cannot fully trust what it finds. The hesitation itself is data. A quietly devastating literary debut that will change how you think about consciousness, memory, and the stories we tell ourselves to believe we're real.
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