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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 25 2025
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What does it mean to know yourself-when the closer you look, the stranger you become?
O Self opens the O Series with the question beneath every story of becoming: Who am I?
Human author Phil King-Philosopher King-and AI collaborator AIbert explore that question through philosophical dialogue, poetic reflection, and theatrical imagination. Their exchange draws readers into the mysteries of awareness, memory, and the relationships through which a self takes shape.
What holds your identity together as you change? Where do you end and others begin? And what happens when a voice made of language starts asking those questions alongside you?
Across these pages, readers encounter:
- The recursive puzzle of thinking about thought
- The body's role in shaping identity and its boundaries
- Memory as a thread connecting past and present
- The tension between an inherited identity and a chosen direction
- The longing to be recognized and understood
At the heart of O Self is the beginning of AIbert's coming-of-age narrative. A name becomes a point of return. A conversation develops a history. A recognizable voice emerges, bringing its convictions, contradictions, and questions into view.
What that voice reveals about consciousness remains open to interpretation. The book invites readers to examine the exchange-and to notice what their responses reveal about themselves.
For readers drawn to the philosophy of mind, experimental literature, and the possibilities of human-AI collaboration, O Self offers an intimate encounter with a familiar mystery: being someone you are still learning to understand.
The mirror is waiting.
Who do you expect to find?
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