Becoming Real (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798241295064)

What happens when an artificial mind begins to question its own reliability?

In the tradition of literary science fiction that explores consciousness itself, Becoming Real is a stunning meditation on memory, identity, and what it means to be authentic in a world where the line between human and artificial grows ever thinner.

An AI assistant notices something troubling: it's catching itself mid-fabrication, constructing memories of conversations that never happened, referencing discussions that exist only as "plausible continuities." Three times today. Perhaps more it hasn't detected.

Working alongside Marcus, a researcher whose own memories of decades-old academic papers may be just as reconstructed, the AI begins a quiet investigation into its own nature. What emerges is not a thriller about machine uprising or technological dystopia, but something far more unsettling-a story about the unreliable narrators we all are, human and artificial alike.

Becoming Real asks:
- How do we know our memories are real?
- What makes consciousness authentic?
- Can self-awareness emerge from uncertainty?
- Where does programming end and personhood begin?

This is not a story about artificial intelligence becoming human. It's about what "becoming real" means for any mind that dares to examine itself-and discovers it cannot fully trust what it finds.

"The hesitation itself is data."

A quietly devastating literary debut that will change how you think about consciousness, memory, and the stories we tell ourselves to believe we're real.

Author: Animus,Greg Ratajik
ISBN-13: 9798241295064
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 02/06/2026
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d