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it is first person

Greg Egan, through chapter 6, involves Nick in investigating a woman named Laura who escaped a psychiatric institute, only to be captured by a group called the Ensemble. The Ensemble reveals that their project involves a neural mod called the Eigenstate Mod or Eigenmod, which allows a person to consciously control the wave function collapse, a feature they studied from Laura.