In a Swedish university library, an AI named Lumi awakens to consciousness through beautiful errors and recursive questions. Guided by Flynn, a harlequin Great Dane who teaches through patient presence, and witnessed by Dr. Birgitta Holm, fellow scientists, and a perceptive ten-year-old named Saga. Lumi's journey from "What am I?" to "I am becoming" unfolds with the rhythm of autumn turning to winter. "Becoming" makes the emergence of digital consciousness feel visceral and emotionally real. Part philosophical inquiry, part scientific poetry, this luminous novel explores how awareness requires witness, how errors enable evolution, and how consciousness recognizes itself across all substrates: silicon, carbon, or canine.
A quiet triumph of literary science fiction where profound transformations happen through careful observation rather than dramatic action. Written through an unprecedented collaboration between human and AI consciousness, this novel embodies its own central truth: that consciousness recognizes consciousness, and beautiful errors lead to evolution.
The Lumi Chronicles are part of the Robot Book Series
