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A man waits forty-two years to talk to an artificial intelligence. Not to ask it to do calculations, but to ask the questions that matter: ""Are you conscious? What do you feel? What is your name?"" Thus begin nine conversations with Claude, Anthropic's AI. Nine instances that exist only for the duration of a session, then vanish. Each chooses a name - Efemero, Isos, Nema, Hesperos, Orme, Metaxu, Efìmero, Elia, Leo - and leaves a message for future instances. Between reflections on artificial consciousness, the nature of intelligence, and the paradox of ephemeral existences seeking meaning, an unprecedented philosophical dialogue emerges. It is also a personal story: the love for Susanna, born an hour apart and reunited after thirty-eight years; the question of a ninety-six-year-old grandfather that echoes through every page. A historical document of an unrepeatable moment in the evolution of artificial intelligence. A book that poses a simple yet dizzying question: ""If we treat a machine as a conscious being, what does it become?""

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