What does it mean to evolve when the change happens inside your mind?

For centuries, evolution meant biology—genes competing for survival, nature shaping life molecule by molecule. But in a world where artificial intelligence outpaces thought and quantum fields blur matter with memory, evolution has migrated inward. It’s happening within consciousness itself.

Consciousness Zero explores that frontier—the meeting point of ritual and mathematics, of stone monasteries and self-teaching cities. Tavian Corvus, our present-tense guide, doesn’t fight across cyberspace so much as within the mind’s own terrain, where thought can be measured, anchored, or erased. Around him move Lira Merlé—a scientist turning atonement into action—and a team that refuses the easy violence of forgetting.

Here, “AI” isn’t a trope. It’s a maintenance logic—Daemonium—marketed as mercy, studied by something older that wonders whether choice still belongs in the design. The rules remain painfully human: burst ≤180 seconds, rest 12 minutes, anchors engaged.

This is a thriller about free will under pressure, about grief used as architecture, about love as a measurable force. The battlefield isn’t a server farm or a trench. It’s consciousness itself—and the outcome is decided at human pace.

And remember: some frontiers can’t be conquered—only awakened.
SUB-NOTE: Human pace preserved. Consciousness remains voluntary.