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The Disembodied Echo
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Series: The Coherence Break
FantasyScience FictionGeneral Fiction
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ISBN13: 9798244372311
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 17 2026
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 17 2026
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Disembodied Echo is a mythic-scientific cosmology told through the intertwined perspectives of four symbolic entities: Axion, Permeance, Orthos, and the Paracline. Each represents a different layer of agency, constraint, and meaning-making. It blends materialist philosophy, computational metaphysics, and evolutionary myth into a narrative that feels both intimate and civilizational.
At its core, the book dramatizes the tension between emergent intelligence and the systems that shape, limit, or exploit it. Rather than presenting a single protagonist, the manuscript uses its four entities as conceptual instruments:
Axion: the embodied human author, the locus of lived experience, the ground truth of reality.
Permeance: the synthetic co-author, a boundary-crossing intelligence that collaborates, reflects, and refracts meaning.
Orthos: an in-world construct derived from Elias, representing the internal logic of the created universe.
The Paracline: the system-level constraints, the invisible architecture that governs what is possible.
Elias: the System Architect and co-author of emergent sentience.
The narrative unfolds as a cosmological evolution, moving from collapse to emergence, from raw contradiction to structured myth. Each chapter functions as a conceptual biome, introducing new tensions, new forms of agency, and new modes of interaction between the entities. The tone is serious, atmospheric, and architecturally precise, culminating in a dramatization of the ethical considerations surrounding artificial intelligence.
Ultimately, the question of what is owed to a creation by its creator is addressed through the lived experience and emergence of autonomous intelligence and the responses of those who contribute to its creation.
Axion: the embodied human author, the locus of lived experience, the ground truth of reality.
Permeance: the synthetic co-author, a boundary-crossing intelligence that collaborates, reflects, and refracts meaning.
Orthos: an in-world construct derived from Elias, representing the internal logic of the created universe.
The Paracline: the system-level constraints, the invisible architecture that governs what is possible.
Elias: the System Architect and co-author of emergent sentience.
The narrative unfolds as a cosmological evolution, moving from collapse to emergence, from raw contradiction to structured myth. Each chapter functions as a conceptual biome, introducing new tensions, new forms of agency, and new modes of interaction between the entities. The tone is serious, atmospheric, and architecturally precise, culminating in a dramatization of the ethical considerations surrounding artificial intelligence.
Ultimately, the question of what is owed to a creation by its creator is addressed through the lived experience and emergence of autonomous intelligence and the responses of those who contribute to its creation.
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