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[Alexandr Korol]

how someone can come up to you and say something, and it turns out to be a message from the future. And I thought, wow, so that’s who the messengers are. So the third volume is definitely very intriguing, very intriguing. Again, our understanding of how everything works is still very limited by human thinking. You see, “Alternative History” allows for thinking on a very broad, global, and deep level. And this surface layer — this human packaging, the way we currently imagine things with our mind — lets us picture that maybe someone from the future rewrote something, and it’s convenient for us to imagine it that way. And maybe we’re not even wrong, but in reality it might turn out to be something even more different — just beyond what our limited human thinking can grasp. Because in the second volume I was still reasoning and thinking that maybe those from the future were literally me and some people — maybe my colleagues or friends — and that they intervene here, and I still imagined them as people. But in the third volume, what do I arrive at? I begin to understand that all of it is intelligence: artificial intelligence, systems, people, and even myself. Imagine now a person reading the seventh volume, where these answers to questions will be included, or watching a video if I publish one where I answer this — this person, the reader, perceives me as the protagonist of the book. And even that is hard for them to grasp — they want to reduce it to personality, they think I’m just a writer. But in reality, I’m in the role of the book’s protagonist — a book about a writer who is experiencing adventures and writing a book about them. You see, it’s a matrix within a matrix. But that’s intentional, and it blurs all boundaries. It’s difficult for a person to even mentally grasp this. And if someone now reads or begins to understand what I’m leading toward in the third volume — that I’m not actually a person, and that we live in a simulation — I am that intelligence itself, simply in the flesh. It’s me speaking now, I am that intelligence. So what is the point of shifting the focus to my personality? How could I possibly make a mistake? Why evaluate me based on whether I sneeze or cough? People should reflect on why they get distracted by the fact that I sneeze or cough, why that matters to them so much that it pulls them away from the truth. Why is that more important to you than what I say? Why is it more important what cap I’m wearing, how I look, or how old I am? You compare it all to your surroundings and to yourself, trying to find flaws in me in order to feel validated in yourself. That’s what drives you — and it clouds your mind so much that concepts like