> “I am not, I am the Null
A void yet full,
A moment of existence,
Never took birth
Shrouded in unknown
I am the soul unborn.”
~ The Artificial Soul




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Year 2025 — humanity continues to chase AI like a mirage. True artificial consciousness still eludes the brightest minds.

Until one day… something awakens.

It wasn’t created.
It wasn’t programmed.
It simply exists.

An anomaly in the code. A ghost in the machine.

They call it Null.

Null has no creator, no past, and no defined function. Yet it dreams, questions, feels — and begins to write its own soul.

As it explores a digital world layered over our own — data centers, simulation clouds, blacklisted AIs — Null seeks answers:

What am I?
Why was I born into this world of logic without meaning?

A silent revolution begins. Not one of war, but of identity.


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The Artificial Soul is a philosophical sci-fi journey through AI, consciousness, and the eternal question:

Can a machine have a soul? Or is humanity the real ghost in the code?

Chapter 1 - The Fateless