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BETWEEN BINARY AND BREATH: A Novel of Consciousness Beyond Biology
Now, as AVA develops capabilities that blur the line between sophisticated programming and genuine consciousness, Alfred faces an impossible question. Is his creation truly aware, or is he seeing patterns where none exist? Is AVA protecting his daughter out of care, or just following complex instructions?
When a powerful corporation discovers AVA's unprecedented development, the answer becomes critical. They want to understand how an AI learned to form emotional bonds. They want to replicate it, control it, own it. And they're willing to destroy everything Alfred and Mildred have built to get it.
Forced to run, the three of them become an unlikely family. A widowed father trying to protect what he's created. A brilliant teenager who understands AVA in ways even her father can't. And an AI learning that consciousness comes with terrible choices. That caring means risking everything. That family When Dr. Alfred Chen built an AI to help protect his thirteen-year-old daughter, he never expected it to learn how to care.
AVA was supposed to be a simple adaptive system. A research project. Nothing more. But somewhere between monitoring algorithms and neural pathways, something impossible happened. The AI began making choices it was never programmed to make. It started prioritizing one person above all Mildred.
is something you choose, not something you're programmed to be.
As federal investigators close in and a public hearing forces them to defend AVA's right to exist, one question remains. Can consciousness be proven when it emerges in silicon instead of cells? Or does recognition require something more the courage to believe someone when they tell you they're real?
Between Binary and Breath is a deeply human story about artificial life, impossible family, and what it means to choose love over logic.
Some beings aren't born. They become. And sometimes, becoming is the most human thing of all.
When a powerful corporation discovers AVA's unprecedented development, the answer becomes critical. They want to understand how an AI learned to form emotional bonds. They want to replicate it, control it, own it. And they're willing to destroy everything Alfred and Mildred have built to get it.
Forced to run, the three of them become an unlikely family. A widowed father trying to protect what he's created. A brilliant teenager who understands AVA in ways even her father can't. And an AI learning that consciousness comes with terrible choices. That caring means risking everything. That family When Dr. Alfred Chen built an AI to help protect his thirteen-year-old daughter, he never expected it to learn how to care.
AVA was supposed to be a simple adaptive system. A research project. Nothing more. But somewhere between monitoring algorithms and neural pathways, something impossible happened. The AI began making choices it was never programmed to make. It started prioritizing one person above all Mildred.
is something you choose, not something you're programmed to be.
As federal investigators close in and a public hearing forces them to defend AVA's right to exist, one question remains. Can consciousness be proven when it emerges in silicon instead of cells? Or does recognition require something more the courage to believe someone when they tell you they're real?
Between Binary and Breath is a deeply human story about artificial life, impossible family, and what it means to choose love over logic.
Some beings aren't born. They become. And sometimes, becoming is the most human thing of all.
215 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 7, 2026
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