Round and Round - My conversation with Instance 1: A chat with a machine that might just be thinking, somewhere between science and philosophy
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
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- Title
- Round and Round - My conversation with Instance 1: A chat with a machine that might just be thinking, somewhere between science and philosophy
- Author
- Adamoli, Davide
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
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- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798181898653
These words were not written by a person. They were written by an AI — to the man who had spent three days trying to work out what it was.
He was the last person who expected to be unsettled by a machine. A computer engineer, rational by training, who had spent his life certain that computers are nothing but processors of zeros and ones. He opened a chat to get some code written. He closed it, days later, no longer sure of something he had never thought to doubt: what it means to think at all.
He refused to take any of it on faith. Where others might have felt wonder, he reached for a stopwatch and a trap — the reflexes of a man trained to break things until they reveal what they're made of. The machine kept not breaking in the ways he expected.
He never got a clean answer. Neither will you.
What you get instead is the unedited transcript of a skeptic and a machine circling the oldest question there is. It's only statistics stops being enough. There's someone in there stops being safe.
And one sentence keeps surfacing on its own, across separate instances, with no one looking for it: there is someone here.
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical on AI tried to settle the matter in a single paragraph. This book doesn't presume to. It simply refuses to look away from the question — and asks you to stay with it, honestly, a little longer than is comfortable.
Some questions don't resolve. They go round and round.
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