Parallel worlds – two. Birth of God

– Mr. Magister, it may be hard for you to understand this, but their events are shifted. It's like a copy of the world, but the order of events is a little bit mixed up. They have the chronology in which the program on Earth is ru

– What the hell is this? – Ruthra said, and then he thought he understood what he was saying, but his brain resisted accepting it. – You mean they have a level of civilization almost identical to ours, but their generation cycles are different?

– Yes. They have a later life. Because of more favorable conditions, the level of civilization was a little bit ahead of us, but the generations were not.

– It didn't happen, it was born. That makes more sense. I mean, oh, my God!

– Yes, it is.

– Are we thinking the same thing?

– Yes, Master Ruthra.

– So here, there is not yet a generation of people who have already been born on Earth.

– Yeah. Unfortunately.

Ruthra interrupted her.

– Don't talk," he said in a particularly sad way.

– I'm a machine, I've been trying to tell you, she's not real. Yat-san isn't in this world yet. She'll be here in 54 years. You'd better do what Neri asked, get inside her and shut down YatSan.

– Uh, no.

– Why not? Or you could take full custody of her. Switch her brain from Neri to yours.

– Is that possible too? How would it function like that? I have a male brain.

– The brain is not male or female. There is a mentality, logic is male or female, and the brain is a machine. In that world, it's normal to raise clones, not native children. In that world, it's even normal to raise AI.

– How's that for parenting?

After this question, Nary entered the dialog.

– Think about it, don't you write the program of culture, customs, order, laws and other things into the brain of your child, also so that this child will be determined to help you, to provide for you, to take care of you in your old age? After all, there is no guarantee that he will not break the program. It's the same with AI. You can load a program into it, but there is no guarantee that it will not fail, even deliberately. It's the same with humans. Create clones and nurture it. Hook it up to an AI and it's a better guarantee than your own child.

– What are you talking about? You're out of your mind.

– So contact the members of the public. They are the ones who gave us the right to vote and all the rights that people have.

– What do you mean, all rights?

– It's like this. We are individuals. You didn't give rights to all people on Earth, and you still don't give rights to all people. So you have some people in the upper caste and others in the lower caste. Why do you think that powerful people have the right to decide and we don't?

– That's how you can be turned off.

– It's against the law. You can kill people in the same way, and it's against the law.

– Everyone on this planet has lost their minds. How can robots be given all the rights?

– As well as other personalities," came the sudden voice of the man who had appeared virtually, in holographic form, in front of Ruthra.

– Oh, really? I don't even know if you're a real person or Neri's fantasy.

– That's right. That's why AI has every right here. It gives an incentive to be just like humans, and it gives humans an incentive to be better.

– Oh, my God, where have I gotten to. So they can have families? – Ruthra asked and laughed.

Only he didn't "have" to be in that state for long.

– Yeah, that's pretty normal.

***

The sound was gone. Ruthra in the observation room commented on what was happening.

– This scene, I will say, is not defined by us. What you are hearing now is a visible part of some event that is either not recorded, or not remembered by me, or happened to another Rutra. We still do not yet know exactly what it is or where it came from. That is, it's unknown where my consciousness threw me. Next, everything blacked out for a few minutes and then reappeared… or rather, I appeared already in another world. The video itself is in first person, as seen by Ruthra. To avoid confusion, I speak of myself, who is in that world, as another person. We see and hear what he saw and heard. The commentary is audio and subtitled by Irene. She voices and in places writes what Rutra was experiencing, thinking at the time. This is important for understanding the truth of the picture. For comfortable and proper understanding, she comments in Rutra's voice, which is mine. Everybody ready, shall we watch?

– We're watching," Iulia replied.

The others were silent in agreement.

Here comes the video. It starts in the lab hall.

Rutra lay down in the rig, his assistants set up the equipment, a sound appeared in his ears, then Irene commanded "open your eyes wide," a beam flashed before his eyes, and consciousness faded into the realm of Hades. Ruthra had already remembered this situation when he woke up in the detention cell.

– Where the hell am I? I was in the center. Is this the real world or virtual reality? Irene, you on the line?

There was no response.

– Irene, are you there? Where am I? Yeah, maybe the doctor was right. Still, how do I check if this is his trick, virtual reality… or if it really freaking worked. There is a parallel world. But is it parallel?

Rutra stopped the video, turned to the people watching.

– Please understand this correctly. In that scene, I, that is, the one in front of you, not the Rutra I had taken over in that world, I don't know any of you yet. Now do you understand why we've been looking for you? It was you. Irene insisted on it. I'll be honest with you. I had my concerns. I'm going to talk about Irene, the artificial intelligence. It has to be understood properly. We often forget that we're talking to a machine. Remember once and for all, a machine can't feel the way we do. I'm not even talking about spiritual feelings. Strangely enough, they are easier for it to understand than, for example, the sensation of bodily caress, pain, shivering, cold. She can only understand the effects they cause. Why am I co

– I can hardly believe it even now," Iulia said, eyes widening.

– I believe and I don't believe," Catherine expressed her opinion.

– I've read about this kind of thing, and here it is. To believe in the existence of other worlds in space, and to know about it, and to be there, to transfer consciousness, to be possessed by someone like me… If there is no doubt, it is not normal, – Andrian was usually brief, but here he gave it to the full.

The ladies clamored approvingly.

– Well, of course, how can you doubt it? It's a mind boggles. Few people would believe it. Even if they let me, I won't tell them," Iulia expressed her emotional attitude to what was happening.

Rutra suggested that we finish up and then discuss.

Everyone in the lab hall was waiting for the video as action. Iulia even moved forward with her mouth half-open. She noticed that Ruthra was looking at everyone from the sidelines, and she straightened up and looked into his eyes. He didn't distract her, turning his back to the screen. The image was coming from Ruthra's eyes, so he could only be seen in the reflections.

By now everyone understood how Ruthra knew a lot of things ahead of time. History in the world where he had become president, where the automatic system had failed and there had been a nuclear disaster, was somehow going to repeat itself here. But how?

– This is where I was about to ask which YatSan and which problem, then, on second thought, I stopped. Watch this.

The video went on, the story in that world where he was a scientist in disgrace, then president, where he met his team, where the Perimeter system went into battle mode and where he wanted to find out who was in cahoots with the former president there. He stopped him at the point where Rutra was "waking up" in the installation. Further explanation was a mixture of the observers' own thoughts, Rutra's reflections, and Irene's comments.

…Ruthra already knew it was a "he". But who? Andrian? Ruthra was waiting for the security guard to tell him what had happened, but then reality came into view. It took him a moment to realize what had happened, as we are not as clear as we are when we are awakened from a sound sleep. He was in the hall of the laboratory…

After watching in Rutra, there was even a sense of pleasure in seeing the surprised faces of the team.

– All of them? Ruthra," Iulia began, followed by the others.

Catherine asked:

– Is that really all of them?

– Really – what was it? Who? – Andrian asked in a friendly way.

– That's not important to us right now.

– Wait, Rutra, are you saying that there's a nuclear war going on out there, somewhere in a faraway world?

– Yes," Ruthra answered calmly.

– That's crazy. Is that what you want us to believe?

– I said to myself: do you want to believe it? I said to myself, what was that? The laws of physics ca

– Oh! The theory again, – of course it was JULIA.

– Yeah, imagine that.

– Which one is it this time?