Johnny

Character from Hyperion by Dan Simmons

The first Keats cybrid — an AI consciousness in a human body modeled on the poet John Keats, who hired Brawne Lamia to investigate his own murder and fathered humanity's messiah before dying.

Also known as: Johnny, First Keats Cybrid, John

What They Know

• First Keats cybrid — TechnoCore AI consciousness in a human body cloned from John Keats's DNA
• Hired Brawne Lamia to investigate his own murder — fell in love with her
• Father of Aenea — his AI consciousness + Brawne's humanity produced the messiah
• Created by the TechnoCore to study human empathy — the one quality AIs couldn't replicate
• Killed before reaching Hyperion; consciousness persisted in a Schrodinger cat box
• His literary DNA (Keats's poetry) runs through the entire Cantos structure

Connections

• loves — lamia
• father_of — aenea
• created_by — ummon

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