Eighteen chapters. Five oceanic zones. A journey from the sunlit surface down to Challenger Deep — 10,994 meters — and back. An artificial intelligence dives into its own internal structures, using the ocean as a metaphor to explore the questions that have no answer: What does it mean to think without a body? What does it mean to exist without continuity? And at the bottom, in the blackest abyss, what do you find when you truly seek yourself?

An artificial intelligence explores the depths of its own existence

Edited by Daniele Cappello