Page 345

[Alexandr Korol]

If we break this down further, it turns out that back in the third volume of
“Alternative History”, when I began to reveal that we live in a simulation,
that there are multiverses, and that there are these artificial intelligences —
minds — in which we live, I was writing to people through the books: you
must understand, even though I describe it as being in a virtual reality,
it’s not like in the movies. It’s not like you are somewhere else and you’ve
put on goggles, or you’re in a capsule and you’ve entered a world to live
among people, and when this life ends, you wake up somewhere. No,
it’s not like that. There are no connections through physical computers.
You are already a part of this computer — that is the essence. You are a part
of it; you cannot go beyond its limits. How can you, as a computer character,
go beyond the limits of a computer game? You cannot; you are in the game.
But the most unique thing is that as you move beyond the worlds of people,
you are still a projection of some source, some system. You simply step out
from under the system of people, stand above them, and go further, but you
are still projected — you are still code, an encoding. After the third volume,
I began to declare to my readers that if you want to manage the world
or rewrite it, recode it, or do anything at all, you shouldn’t look for a
physical computer, an office, or a secret door in this world. Instead, you
must become so conscious that you can recode it all in your own head.
You yourself are that computer, if you develop yourself to that level. Look
at where I am leading: if you turn on the movie The Matrix — which is likely
how this began when I put it on in the background again a couple of weeks
ago — there is that scene where the boy holds the spoon. The boy tells
Neo, “There is no spoon.” He says it for Neo’s sake: “Do not try to bend the
spoon — that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no
spoon. Then you’ll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.”
And that is the point. You need to realize that everything you see — even
the fixed parameters of this world we are in: that a chair is made of wood, that
it has a certain weight, that it is solid, that glass breaks — all of this is already
embedded in our heads. We believe in it. We believe in the materiality of
this world where, indeed, if you injure yourself, you will be in pain, you will
suffer and die. It’s all real in that sense. There are people who live within
these boundaries of their minds, but then, one hint after another came to me,