We are already creating enormous digital archives of ourselves while AI learns to model individuals and brain-computer interfaces translate neural activity into digital information. Could these technologies eventually converge into something that survives us? And if a digital reconstruction becomes conscious, would it still be a copy, or someone new?
An aging man archives the fragments of his life with AI, searching for coherence in memories he no longer trusts. But as the machines learn his voice, they begin reflecting something far more unsettling.
Humanity sends a digitized consciousness 124 light-years across the cosmos, carrying Earth’s knowlege and a desperate plea for salvation. But what David Harden finds at journey’s end transforms the meaning of his mission.