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Themes labels used: intelligence, human consciousness, metacognition, self-knowledge, knowledge vs wisdom, humanity, ethics of enhancement, limits of language, pattern recognition, perception of reality, power and isolation, individual vs collective, beauty vs utility, enlightenment, self-improvement, social consciousness
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A blind teen’s experimental sight-restoring implant instead reveals the Web—and a new intelligence waking inside it.
Why this is here
Themes labels: consciousness · perception · communication · technology and humanity · identity · knowledge acquisition · disability · language · information theory · evolution · ethics · human nature · awareness · learning
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1229
A posthuman first-contact mission heads into the outer solar system to confront an alien intelligence—and rethink consciousness.
Why this is here
Themes labels: consciousness · sentience · intelligence · self-awareness · human nature · identity · evolution · free will · empathy · communication · alienness · transhumanism · posthumanism · reality perception · survival · game theory · disability
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1334
A biotech researcher’s forbidden experiment creates sentient cells that transform his body and then humanity.
Why this is here
Themes labels: humanity · consciousness · sentience · evolution · individuality · collectivism · ethics of science · scientific responsibility · transformation · posthumanism · perfection · identity · existentialism · reality · immortality · hope · compassion
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1468
A mixed-species expedition reaches a failing terraformed colony where strange memories and shifting reality hide a larger truth.
Why this is here
Themes labels: sentience · personhood · identity · memory · reality · consciousness · autonomy · belonging · otherness · unity vs division · curiosity · knowledge · curiosity ethics · first contact · community · fear of difference · storytelling · selfhood · morality · post-scarcity · survival · evolution · civilization · truth · perception
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1532
A posthuman software mind joins a galaxy-spanning search after a cosmic disaster threatens the future of intelligence.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · consciousness · posthumanism · survival · evolution · intelligence · death and loss · meaning of humanity · free will · communication breakdown · technology and ethics · empiricism vs speculation · cosmic insignificance
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1547
Twelve chronologically arranged Lem stories probe alien contact, AI, and human limits with irony, dread, and invention.
Why this is here
Themes labels: otherness · communication limits · humanity · intelligence · identity · reality · evolution · ethics · technology · cosmic unknown · cognition · perception · philosophy · humor and satire
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1548
An aging robot inventor is drawn into a moon-bound revolt, where mind upload, identity, and immortality collide.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · consciousness · selfhood · immortality · free will · evolution · personhood · transhumanism · what makes a soul · humanity · memory · body versus mind · technology and morality · individuality versus collectivism
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1550
Three timelines collide on a terraformed world, where uplifted species, desperate humans, and old sins of creation meet.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · consciousness · selfhood · empathy · hubris · creation and responsibility · power and control · evolution · collectivism · morality · survival · godhood · social commentary
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1550
A stranded clone crew must build a conscious AI to save their ship, while secrecy, fear, and philosophy collide.
Why this is here
Themes labels: consciousness · artificial intelligence · personhood · identity · free will · ethics · morality · creation responsibility · playing god · humanity · existentialism · religion · psychology · evolution · selfhood · epistemology · hubris
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1555
An amnesiac future man enters a machine-run competition and is pulled into a conspiracy that could remake Earth, Venus, and identity.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · memory · perception · logic · social engineering · free will · altruism · self-improvement · human evolution · democracy · utopia · authoritarianism · philosophy vs action · order vs chaos
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1261
Twelve linked stories track humanity's galactic rise and decline as a new science of consciousness reshapes reality.
Why this is here
Themes labels: consciousness · artificial intelligence · human nature · existentialism · philosophy · morality · civilization · progress · time · memory · identity · meaning · nihilism · anti-nihilism · panpsychism · free will · evolution · sociology · psychology · sacrifice · utopia · war · death · human condition · future of humanity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1565
A bio-enhanced PI hunts a vanished woman in a quarantined solar system and stumbles into a reality-bending quantum mystery.
Why this is here
Themes labels: consciousness · free will · identity · reality · measurement · knowledge and consequence · moral responsibility · personal change · emotion versus rationality · control · religion versus science · existential uncertainty · human agency · selfhood · grief · cognitive dissonance
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1349
