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Parallel worlds – two. Birth of God
Artur Zadikyan
When is our mind born? After all, we don't remember our birth. What is the beginning of our appearance in this world? After all, when a man and a woman performed a ritual and a spermatozoon came together with an egg, we began. Then thought appeared and, following the rule of logic, gave birth to reason. Entangled pairs of particles fly apart over incredible distances and maintain an instant connection. Alas, we wish for a miracle, doubting it, yet we live with it because it is part of reality. Rutra has had an idea.A continuation of the romantic, sci-fi, story begun in the novel Parallel Worlds One Fire and Flame
Artur Zadikyan
Parallel worlds – two. Birth of God
A moment changes eternity. Eternity is made up of moments
Chapter 1: Transmigration of Souls
– Today I am going to show you an interesting test. It is interesting, at least for me personally, because I have done it many times to check whether I am in reality or in the virtual world. Although it was suggested to me by medical professionals as a condition check, it gave inaccurate results. I thought a lot about why and found a solution that surprised me. I tried hundreds of variants – nothing worked. The essence of the test is simple, it is the reaction of our body to alcohol, or rather blood to ethyl alcohol. First we look under a microscope at our blood in its natural state. The blood, specifically the red and white cells in it, move around as normal, like balloons. You get the idea?
– I think I understand," Andrian replied. – Now there will be a topic similar to the two-slit experiment.
The ladies giggled. Iulia even spoke up:
– Why was he named that?
This caused even more laughter. Now Andrian smiled, too.
– They could have called it a two-hole.
Everyone laughed heartily at that. Ruthra looked around at everyone and continued:
– Back to reality, guys. Yeah, Andrian, you're right. It's the same kind of thing. That is, in the two-slit experiment, a particle is transformed into a wave when it passes through two slits and hits the screen opposite. When we don't look at the screen, but check it after the impact, there are dots from balls, and if we watch the process – lines from waves. It's like this. A mysticism that keeps both amateurs and serious scientists in suspense. You know, perhaps this is one of the facts that prove and disprove simultaneously the existence of some force, or energy, or mind, or God. Because supporters of different opinions think that it proves our life in some cosmic simulation, like a computer game. Their opponents, on the other hand, say that god does it. It's simple: God does it. And there you can interpret it any way you want, but at the same moment it does not forbid imagining god in some modern sense, even in the fact that we live in his thoughts. I've been thinking about this for quite some time. Thought and thought – and did something like this. The thing is, if you… honestly, I'm telling you this in confidence. You don't have to tell everyone. It's a trump card. An informative trump card. Don't forget: the main energy of the future is information, and its core is the speed of processing for decision making. However, back to the topic. So, of course, and I had doubts, and I argued that the virtual world is natural, that everything that happens is a hoax. So here I was offered to have my blood tested. But in the virtual world there is such a mess, I would even say – an anomaly of consciousness. You check the blood before and after drinking alcohol, and the blood shows you the same thing. Why? Now it's even weirder: sometimes this way and sometimes that way.
– Oh, my God, how's it going, though?
– YatSan, be careful with alcohol.
Ruthra's joking warning made everyone smile again, and her friend even gave her a little poke. It was unclear whether it was YatSan or Rutra, because everyone knew about Rutra's attitude toward "sucking the soul of a gin," as he called smoking hookah.
– She's more of a bong girl.
Ruthra made a serious face and continued:
– Okay, I'll make it short. I couldn't figure out why this was happening. I was drinking alcohol, and my blood was normal, so the red cells weren't clumping together. And then the supercomputer gave me a clue. Not Irene. There was another one in that system, or rather, a different one. To me, it was in a female form. And the point was that in the virtual world we live, so to speak, by pure reason, natural nature, only completely under the control of the supercomputer. He can change what we see any way he wants. So here he was, making me believe that the world I was in was real. Confusing the readings, that is, sometimes showing the true picture, so that I would have doubts about the reality of the same test. This is why you have to do an unobservable experiment. I probably didn't fully explain it again.
– Or rather, as always, confused.
It wasn't hard to guess what YatSan had said. Ruthra was silent for a moment, raised his left index finger up, and continued.
– In the virtual world, everything should be the same. Whether you drink alcohol or not, your blood should be normal. Virtual reality has no effect on instrument readings, because there is no consciousness there. It is the supercomputer that influences you, your consciousness – and you see what it wants you to see. Everything you see is modeled by it. Like a dream in your mind. That's why you have to do the test, not by observing the process, but by looking at the result. That is, the effect, the trace, the consequences that the blood leaves on the materials being tested. So much for the two-slit experiment. You can laugh. Let's move on. Before the flight, we'll be conducting soul transmigration tests. Yes, I realize that sounds like something extraordinary and exciting, even magical to you. I understand, and I assure you, it will become commonplace and routine. I now invite you to the hidden block. Not even most of the medical staff has access to it. That's just for the record," Ruthra said and looked at YatSan, because she was the most thoughtful person in the experiment.
Ruthra led them and their assistants to an elevator that took them down several levels and down a corridor to a massive iron door. The door opened automatically. Behind it, shining white, wreathed with cold, was a room that felt somewhat mystical.
– Please don't get emotional. No matter how surprised you may be, please act naturally. This is our future. In your lifetime, it will be a reality. It will be perfectly normal. You will now see your doppelgangers. Your emotions are also natural. I confess, and for me a lot of things were a shock at first, and then I just ran out of emotions. It's real. You will understand later how it is when you don't understand anything and everything that happens becomes a matter of faith. The birth of God is not the birth of anything material. The birth of a god is a figment of your imagination. You give birth to it (at least – its modern, scientific version) first of all in your consciousness by synthesis of fantasy and faith. Exactly scientific, because all this must be substantiated by modern apostles, i.e. luminaries of science. Know or not know, understand or not understand – it does not matter much, the main thing is fantasy, so that you can imagine it, and faith, so that you can accept it. Accordingly, everything must be confirmed by the servants of the cult of science, who were able to put some of their fantasies into material form, and after that – everything that is not even put into material form is accepted on faith. If you believe in correctness of simple calculations of a counting machine (at the level of multiplication table), the correctness of which you can easily check, and it is for you the confirmation of belief in correctness of complex calculations, – why don't you trust complex machines, which have proved the scientificity of existence of parallel worlds? This is a model of human thought architecture. That's how you reason yourself. So there you go.
– I'm going to fall.
– Even if I didn't hear who said it, I wouldn't have to guess: YatSan, of course.
– That's what everyone thought, I just dared to say it.
– I don't," Andrian said.
– Well, you're just another freak. We don't need this.
– I'm more shocked at why you're the first," Andrian "pricked" her lightly.
– I'm shocked myself.
– It's sad that you understood that," Ruthra said sadly.
– It's okay. We get it. Only you reason and give us your reasoning from your scientific level. We don't really get it. Especially us girls.
– Yeah, you're one hell of a chorus girl.
– Well, maybe not a chorus girl anymore, but it's still not clear to every man.
Ruthra laughed. The others laughed too, especially the science luminary (the scientist even started clapping his hands).
– Okay, back to the topic, then we'll get to the high stuff. What was I saying? Well, if I found out that somewhere there was my second self, even if it was just a body, I would not only be shocked, but terrified. I mean, if it wasn't for me, I'd control it. But this way, it's more peaceful.
– Is there a doppelganger for you? – Iulia asked.
Ruthra looked at her, showing surprise at her naivetе.
– It's clear," she replied.
– I'm telling you it's dangerous here," Catherine said, and only her smiling face told her that the concerns were not so serious.
– Anyone seeing their doppelganger would be shocked. And that's natural. Of course, everyone would say: it can't be.
– That's what I'm saying," Andrian said.
– I'm surprised to hear you say that," Catherine told him almost in a whisper.
– Well, why not, and I'm surprised too," Iulia said loudly.
– I do, too," YatSan said with an undertone of disbelief, surprise, and a desire to check.
– You, when I first told you this, you were completely calm for some reason.
– Because we can expect anything from you.
– I don't quite understand the logic of your reasoning, however, as they say, back to your constellations.
They, having passed Irene's identification, entered the laboratory building, a large room, in the middle of which lay elongated blocks resembling sarcophagi. Everything around was fantastic, like a fairy tale, from the sarcophagi floating and emitting white smoke to the decorative butterflies whose wings bore an image of some scene from the childhood of the person looking at it. The team froze with surprise. Perhaps they had read about something like this, but when you see the world like this for yourself in reality, you realize that it cannot be described in words.
Ruthra, seeing their surprise, decided to bring them back to reality.
– Reality is once a fantasy, but then it really becomes reality. I told you, these are all the realities of tomorrow. This will all become normal," he said and ran his hand, without touching, over one of the rigs.
The top defense disappeared. Inside, like a crystal coffin, lay the body of the princess. Or rather, it was YatSan's. The team was delighted, shocked and amazed at the same time.
– This is a nightmare. It's a wax figure," the living YatSan exclaimed, looking at her clone.
Ruthra smiled and answered her:
– This wax figure can talk to you.
– Why won't she talk?
– Because she has no consciousness. We can pump your consciousness in there. You'd really get a shock if we uploaded something other than your consciousness. We could upload a digital copy of your consciousness, and then you'd be two individuals. You'd be able to talk to each other. But you'd have a conflict. You will be two different people at the moment of "switching on", but because of the fact that the past is common, you will start conflicting whose it is, whose everything that should live together with the personality, including memory, is. That's why it should not be done.
– Which of you is which? – Andrian was the first to get away from her astonishment and joked with her. – Tell her she's the real YatSan," he asked Rutra comically for support.
– That's a hell of a thing," YatSan said.
– Shall we open the others? – Ruthra asked seriously, making it clear that this was a routine for him, something they would have to get used to as well.
– Let's open it," Iulia whispered.
– Come on," Ruthra waved his hand at Irene.
Although it was already clear that all operations could be done manually, by gestures, voice, and mentally. The other three sarcophagi opened.
– I find it strange that they are wearing exactly the same clothes as we are," Andrian remarked.
– Yes. Why not in overalls or overalls? – Iulia wondered.
– Because if it's a copy, it's an exact copy of you. Pay attention – even jewelry, hairstyles, makeup we picked up.
– It's hard to really believe in the reality of people, especially our exact replicas, in front of us. It can't be," Iulia persisted.
– Believe me, EuLeah, it's exactly like that. If actors get makeup, get a copy, why can't we do it here.
– Okay, well, how did you pick out all these clothes? My necklace, for example. I think it's really hard to do all that.
– It's not hard. People have been faked, like with the photo. They made a complete copy of you, and you're talking about bling.
– Yeah, I actually noticed, exact replica. So what, they don't have brains now?
– Thank you, Iulia. Yes, no brains," Ruthra answered her ironically.
– I mean, no, that's not what I meant.
– Okay, okay, let's stop right there. Did you see your doppelgangers?
– We did," they all answered in unison.
– See that they're alive, that they exist?
– I don't quite believe it," Catherine said.
To which Rutra replied:
– Okay, here's what we're gonna do. We're going to revive them. For a while. Only you'll see them from the outside. Okay?
– Good," the listeners again responded amicably.
– Then we'll leave now, and within an hour the assistants, the staff will prepare them, and then you'll see them here. You'll be in contact with them via video for the time being. We have the exact same room as upstairs, or rather, the exact same unit. Let's go to the training room.
– How do you bring them to life? Or what do you call it? I mean, whose consciousness is there? – Andrian asked with special curiosity.
– Oh, I forgot. At the same time, you'll see how your digitized memory, or rather, consciousness, works. You'll just see in their dialog the boundary of events. This is what I call the hour to which their consciousness, i.e. yours, is recorded. They will not talk about the last past days. We do not update them every day.
– It's a miracle.
– Mystical," Catherine pointed out.
They sat in front of the TV, which was the wall itself, and saw a strange sight: clones sitting in the same room and discussing what had happened to them.
YatSan became indignant:
– If Rutra does that damn thing again, I'll drop the project altogether.
– You're not going anywhere," Andrian told her sternly. – Don't forget where we are. And in general – put your brains together and think about what kind of organization this is. Behind all this kindness there is a system that will simply wipe us out. He warned us for a reason. We will disappear as individuals. We'll be nowhere to be found, no paperwork. Just the faintest of memories, maybe. We'll all be arrested. Everyone, even our closest relatives.
– What are you making up," Iulia spoke up.
– You're scaring me with your thinking. There's no such thing. Maybe he'll do something to us, but that has nothing to do with family.
– Yes, I may have spoken harshly. But anyway, you think about the power of this organization. I've flown in a warplane, I've fired live missiles.
– You weren't flying anywhere. That was virtual reality, too.
– There's something lurking in all of this.
– No need to be dramatic," Catherine tried to calm them down.
– That's why I say that, I liked a lot of things there too, but I wish it was real.
– So why should you resent it if you felt everything – like in reality.
– It's kind of unusual. Everything seems fine, everything is fine, and then you realize it wasn't real. You have to admit, it's not the same.
