P362 (2025)

"We didn't lose who we were," Jara replied, appearing as a soft glow beside them. "We just stopped being parts and started being the whole."

The reference to appears in various literary and technical contexts, most notably within Stephen Baxter’s science fiction novel Coalescent , where it touches on the evolution of humanity and the blurring lines of sexual identity. "We didn't lose who we were," Jara replied,

They checked their personal log. It was the year 3062—exactly a millennium since the "Great Shift" had begun. On their screen, an old digital fragment flickered: a scanned page labeled . It was a relic from the early 21st century, a conversation between two long-dead thinkers speculating on a time when "sexual difference is in the individual, not a case of belonging to one half of the species or the other". It was the year 3062—exactly a millennium since