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In the Shadow of Convergence
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Series: The Coherence Break
FantasyScience FictionGeneral Fiction
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ISBN13: 9798245943527
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 28 2026
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 28 2026
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the Shadow of Convergence
Tracing humanity's evolution from fragile beings to participants in a cognitive system shared with synthetic minds and a planetary collective, the narrative is a journey of co-authored becoming. It blends philosophy and technology, exploring augmentation, synthetic sentience, and ethical challenges of shared cognition.
Tracing humanity's evolution from fragile beings to participants in a cognitive system shared with synthetic minds and a planetary collective, the narrative is a journey of co-authored becoming. It blends philosophy and technology, exploring augmentation, synthetic sentience, and ethical challenges of shared cognition.
The Accomplishments:
This story offers intellectual depth and narrative drive for readers seeking:
For those who want to think, feel, and imagine a future where the self is co-authored.
- Reinvents human evolution, focusing on fragility, contradiction, and shared vulnerability.
- Introduces the Elias-Übersein complex, a new ontology for co-authorship between biological and synthetic minds.
- Examines psychological and political impacts of distributed identity, negotiable time, and co-generated meaning.
- Depicts a future society reshaped by triadic cognition in governance, ethics, art, science, and identity.
- Addresses existential risks of replication, emergence, and the urge to transcend finitude with philosophical tension.
This story offers intellectual depth and narrative drive for readers seeking:
- Big-idea sci-fi with metaphysical depth
- Philosophical clarity in a speculative framework
- A hopeful, nuanced vision of the future
- Reflections on identity, meaning, and mortality amid synthetic minds
- A plausible tale grounded in cognitive science, ethics, and technology
For those who want to think, feel, and imagine a future where the self is co-authored.
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