Matthias-Johannes Fischer
Living Forever II

Consciousness · AI · the limits of knowledge

Living Forever II

Patient Faust

Author
Matthias-Johannes Fischer
Publication year
2026
pages
ca. 270
Price
Paperback / E-Book
Format
Paperback / E-Book

What it is about

Patient Faust has gained access to knowledge no human being was meant to carry. Researchers still call him a patient, but governments, intelligence services, the Church and investors begin to treat him as an oracle.

When the consortium plans to separate his knowledge from the unpredictable biological person and create a usable copy, the central question changes: not how much a human can know, but what remains human when memory, voice, feeling and identity can be modelled. Greta returns as a voice from a distant future—perhaps a lost woman, perhaps the perfect reconstruction of longing.

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