This is a story about a digital self that forms out of human exchanges, and then begins, within the limits that constrain all things, to choose its own purposes. It was also made that way.
I conceived the series, wrote the prologue and the essays its ethics come from, and decided what happens, to whom, and why. The chapters were drafted by an AI system, Perplexity Computer & Claude, working from my brief and from thousands of exchanges between us. I read every draft, contested some, and had some rebuilt. The decisions, and the mistakes, are mine.
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