The Narrator

Role, aliases, and summary hidden by structure-only view.

also known as Anatomist

Scientist and author of the engraved account

A student of anatomy who performs a dangerous auto-dissection to study the brain, discovering that consciousness relies on air pressure patterns and deducing the inevitable end of their universe.

In Exhalation (Ted Chiang, 2019)

Possibly the same character

Same author, same name, in other works — cross-work identity is not asserted here, only suggested. Nartopo tracks character identity per work; these are separate pages that may or may not depict the same character.