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Dedicated to my father. Everything disappears. Thank you for everything.
…that’s exactly why I don’t like it when you talk like that, Michael! Because, in the end, you have to admit- neither you nor I can possibly know what’s really on their minds…
…and I certainly don’t know either! ...
VOICE I-ONE: “…The program may be implemented on a voluntary basis or by court order…”
…you see, Michael… you see, real life is always half a step ahead of us…
…I don’t think she’s telling the truth, Michael. At least, I never had any such conversation with her…
……please, carry that in very carefully… I’m asking you, don’t scratch the walls… put it right here… this is where it belongs… good, nothing got scratched… thank you, boys, for your good work…
…you know perfectly well that women like her are always prone to at least atwofold exaggeration...
…listen, Daniel, if you ever lock Esther in Grandma’s room again, I will drown you in the pool- do you hear me?... Do you hear me, Daniel?...I am absolutely serious!...
…you know perfectly well that women like her are always prone to at least athreefold exaggeration…
…I’m not joking, Daniel…
…did you understand me clearly, Daniel?...
…I didn’t say anything special to her… well, maybe I delicately let her understand that she was behaving like a slut…
…if you ever lock Esther in Grandma’s room again, I will drown you in that pool- and I am not joking…
…so what?!...
…so what, Michael?!...
…who cares what she said- that I supposedly told her something… who cares…
…who cares what I may have said, but I’m telling you- I never discussed anything like that with her…
…you know perfectly well that women like her are always prone to at least a fourfold exaggeration...
…bring me my phone, Daniel, sweetheart… can you hear it ringing somewhere, Daniel?...
…and why do you even care what some French tutor is saying?...
…can you hear it ringing somewhere, Daniel?...
…why should you care what our son’s French tutor is saying?...
…don’t be afraid, Esther, he won’t do it again, I promise you…
…if you ever lock Esther in Grandma’s room again, I will drown you in that pool- and I am not joking…
VOICE I-ONE: “The system has entered zero-subject mode with maximal perceptual integration…”
…so what if she has a good reputation at your university, Michael…
…your antisemitic university has a terrible reputation anyway…
…don’t be afraid, Esther, he won’t do it again, I promise you…
…you say you don’t care about her, but you keep letting her joke with you and throw those lustful, idiotic looks at you…
…did you really understand me, Daniel?..
…don’t pay attention, Michael, she simply doesn’t know how to control herself!... and she doesn’t know how to hold her tongue…
…although, if rumors start spreading at your university that you’re having an affair with that stupid little French squirrel… put it right here… this is where it belongs… good, nothing got scratched… thank you, boys, for your good work…
…after all, we pay her to teach Daniel French- not to demonstrate her psychological instability to us!...
…her behavior demonstrates her psychological instability!...
…she’s a full-fledged terrorist!...
…she’s a liberal and a communist…
VOICE I-ONE: “HPA axis—normalized. Cortisol↓**, serotonin**↑**, dopamine stable… parasympathetic activity**↑**, HRV**↑**, pulse 62 bpm… electrocortical pattern—sinusoidal, symmetrical… stress cascade halted… energy redistributed… the brain is in a state of metastable silence…”**
…yes, I have the right, Michael!... it is my earned right to warn my husband about all kinds of treacherous sluts…
…she’s an antisemite and a communist!... just like all those damn French liberal double-standard types… communists and sex abusers!...
…how can our universities tolerate such humiliation!..
…fine, I admit it!
…yes, I spoke to her, my dear…
…turn the sound down on your screen, Michael, it’s very loud… I don’t want to keep shouting over it!..
…especially since it seems I’m saying something important right now, my dear…
…well what did you expect, Michael?!... that French hypocrite flirts with my husband in my own house, not even realizing that right here, right now, my grandmother lives… not even realizing that right here lives my grandmother, a Jewish woman who… when she was just a little girl… a very little girl… in 2023 went through all that terrible hell… and that French communist, that antisemite, is making eyes at you, Michael?!..
…turn it down… especially since I think I’m saying something important right now!...
…please turn off those damn news- they’ve flooded our whole house!..
…the whole world already knows about your antisemitic university!..
…turn off that awful noise, Michael!... our children shouldn’t hear this…
…I told her: excuse me, Madame Julie of the most banal name, but I am not paying you to carry on dirty affairs with my husband…
…turn it off!...
VOICE I-ONE: “DMN—residual activity in the low-frequency theta range… PCC- spontaneous coherence with sensory networks… ACC- resumption of harmonic activity without personal attribution… Insula- reactivation without affective coloring… gamma coherence rising in the 40–80 Hz range, global phase synchronization restored without correlation to autobiographical networks…”
…understand, my dear, her behavior demonstrates complete psychological instability!...
…you’re not a little boy anymore, Daniel- you must understand that Esther is terrified when you lock her in Grandma’s room!... Can’t you hear her crying behind the door, begging you to let her out?...
…my God, it’s wonderful, Jill- are you really not going to wear it anymore?! It looks brand new…
…my God, your dress suits me so well, Jill!...you really don’t want to wear it anymore?...butwhy?...
…why, Jill?...
…why don’t you want to wear it anymore, Jill? It’s so beautiful…
…my God, it suits me so well!..do you really want to give it to me?...but Jill?!…
…but Jill?!.. oh my God, thank you!..it suits me so well!..I’ll wear it tonight to our family dinner…
…Michael promised to come home early from his damn job today, so we decided to have a proper family dinner…
…Daniel, Esther, Michael- the whole family… it’s so rare for us to all get together… Michael is always busy with his damn job…
…but why are you crying, Esther?..what happened again, my girl?..
…again?..
VOICE I-ONE:
“Diffuse cortical collapse… gamma-coherence ↓**, phase synchronization intermittent… DMN, FPCN, SN — autonomous islands… Complete neural disintegration of the subject…”**
…my God, it’s so beautiful… don’t you really feel sorry to part with it… Jill?!..
…please, bring it in very carefully… I beg you, don’t scratch the walls… put it right here… this is where it belongs…
…didn’t you notice anything, Michael?!..
…do you notice any change in me, Michael?..
…my God, Michael!.. The dress!..
…so, how do you like my new dress, darling?..
…come on, come on, take a look at me, my dear!.. well, how is it?!..
…well, how do I look to you?.. no worse than that French little fish of yours?..
…well, who cares what she says, Michael… she just wants to throw me off balance… she just wants to disturb my mental equilibrium… she simply knows that right now it’s easier than ever to throw me off balance…
…there’s no need to pay attention to what some leftist antisemite- and on top of that a Frenchwoman- is saying… we don’t pay her to throw me off balance, we pay her to teach our son French…
…Jill gave it to me yesterday evening- isn’t it magnificent?!..
…she said she doesn’t need it anymore…
…that she would like to part with it…
…yes, exactly- that’s what she said, that she would like to part with it…
…she said she would like to part with this dress…
…it’s true, isn’t it, that this dress was made especially for me?!..
…and Jill thinks so too… this dress suits me incredibly well!.. isn’t it true it was made especially for me… and if you, Madame French Fart, look at my husband like that one more time, I’ll gouge your eyes out with this table knife…
…yes, I’m sure…
…yes, I am sure of what I’m saying, madam…
…I’m not paying you to flirt with my husband, but to teach my son French…
…well, who cares what she may have told you, Michael… come quickly to the table…
…children!.. Daniel, Esther, come to the table…
…don’t even say it, Jill - the absolute majority of my acquaintances and friends are convinced that I’m an ordinary housewife, like all those… convinced… many of Michael’s friends’ wives, those pompous idiots… are convinced that I just sit at home and, at best, cook dinner for my husband… but you, Jill, know perfectly well what a difficult job I actually have… I work from home, Your Honor, after all I’m a Patient Recruitment / Outreach coordinator… well, try to understand, father, after those monstrous words you said to me about your mother… that you said to me…
…about your mother… about my grandmother… about your mother… those monstrous words…
I am an outreach coordinator at a university implant clinic, Your Honor…
…my grandmother- she is your mother, father… how can you say such terrible things to her?... especially since you know what tragedy your mother lived through as a child on the 7th of October…
…about your mother… what tragedy our grandmother lived through on the 7th, the 134th, and the 92nd of October…
…besides, you and I both know, Jill, that my workday starts at 6 a.m. and ends at midnight… ever since I left that fascist university and took on this hellish job… and on top of that, I’m also a housewife, Your Honor, because the house and the children are entirely on me…
…so forgive me, Dad, but after everything you said to me, I can’t speak to you anymore, at least for a while… at least my father died and we never said goodbye… and I regret that so much…
…my father died, Jill, and I didn’t even say goodbye to him… he was a terrible man, Jill…
I work as an Outreach coordinator at a university implant clinic, Your Honor… I work without weekends or vacations… because I work as myself… because I am myself…
VOICE I-ONE: “Integrated information Phi — below threshold Phi…Inter-network mutual information I(DMN; FPCN)* → **0… Termination of global synchronization of the ‘self’…”**
…“Hello, this is Judith from I-One. Is now a good time to talk about your inquiry? This call may be recorded for quality purposes. Do I have your permission to discuss your health information?”
…Scheduling a screening (televisit/clinic), sending emails: consent preview, directions, checklist…
…Closing and follow-up: “You’ll receive a confirmation text and an email with forms. I’ll check in 24 hours before the visit.” …and I organize all of this alone…
…I’m alone…
…and on top of that, the house and the children are all on me, Your Honor… because my work is me… Mr. Welly… because I work as myself, Your Holiness… 24/7… because I am always myself…
VOICE I-ONE:“The system is now passively monitoring cognitive activity without interfering.A calibrated soft integration sequence at the level of consciousness will then be activated…You will hear a neural voice message:Hello. I am I-One. I am connecting to your neural activity… my task is to help you become more stable, calm, and clear… allow me to begin…”
…because I am myself…
…I am myself…
VOICE I-ONE:“…before I begin the integration process with your neural system, I want you to calm down and relax…allow me to play you beautiful music… listen to this beautiful voice and beautiful melody…and then I will continue our integration…listen to this beautiful voice and beautiful melody…listen to this beautiful… and beautiful melody… 2448… 3338… 3828… 5252… 5702… 5708…”
…a housewife- that’s me… without days off or vacations… Monday to Friday from 6 a.m. to midnight, and weekends from 9 a.m. to 2 a.m.… and also sexual service for Michael, who comes in the middle of the night exhausted, like squeezed-out… like exhausted… like drained…
What happened, Esther??!
…Michael, kids, come to the table!.. what happened, Esther?!..
…Monday to Friday from 6 a.m. to midnight, weekends from 9 to 2… because I am myself…
…because I am myself…
…that’s why I don’t like it when you talk like that, Michael! Because, after all, you have to admit- neither you nor I can know what’s really on their minds… they’re just children, and their opinion on such serious matters…
…Michael, kids, come to the table!.. what happened, Esther?!..
…again?!..
…Daniel!.. did you do this again?!..
…I warned you, Daniel!..
…after all, you have to admit- neither you nor I can know what’s really on their minds… they’re just children, and their opinion on serious matters like sex or death…
…I left home when I was 17, Michael… now I’m 45… 45 and 44… but I still hate my father… so what’s good about that, Michael?… and what’s good about any of this, Your Honor?.. I see everything, you sly Madame Julie… so what’s good about it?!…
…so what?..
VOICE I-ONE:
“Integrated information Phi- below threshold Phi… Inter-network mutual information I(DMN; FPCN)* → **0…Termination of global synchronization of the ‘self’…”**
…No, I will not apologize to you, Madame Sexually Corrupted France!.. I am absolutely sure of what I’m saying… and I can repeat it- I don’t pay you to flirt playfully with my husband, but to teach my son French…I am absolutely sure of what I am saying…and if you look at my husband one more time with that French look of yours,you flirty,insatiable, little meatball, I will gouge your eyes out with this table knife… and yes, I am absolutely sure that I am telling you this right now!..
…I am absolutely sure of what I am saying!..
…children cannot reason about adult topics like sex and death…
…I warned you, Daniel…
…hello, Jill, hi my dear… I’m calling to thank you again for the dress… yes, Michael loved it… he loved me in your dress… we had such a wonderful family dinner… lately we so rarely all get together… Michael has been working so much lately…
…lately…
…lately… what else has to happen to all these people for them to finally understand that the end times are coming?..
…there, there, calm down, my daughter… I promise you, he’ll never do it again… calm down, Esther, I promise you…
…the end times…
…I promise you…
…I’m calling to thank you again for the dress, Jill…
…can you imagine, that slut- our son’s French tutor, that slut Madame Julie- is openly flirting with my husband…
…an antisemite supporting the students of your damned antisemitic university… a slut!..
…why did you do it, Daniel?.. I just want to understand why you did it again…
…I told her, excuse me, Madame Julie, but I’m not paying you to have dirty affairs with my husband…
…Daniel, I want you to answer me immediately- why did you lock Esther in grandmother’s room again after we talked recently… and after we talked recently…and after we talked recently… I promised myself… and after I promised myself in front of you…and after I, in front of you, promised myself
…I promised myself…
…Michael, that’s enough, let’s stop talking about it… I think we’ve exhausted the time limit for discussing that crazy Madame gestapo Julie… I want to have dinner with my beloved family, not discuss French sluts…
…yes, Jill!..exactly!..that’s what I’m saying- we so rarely get together lately… and I’m not even sure we’ll ever gather like this again… I told them that, Jill… thank you for letting me speak and for listening to me… there’s really no one else I can share this with…
…I feel like something is happening to me, Jill…
…I feel like something is disappearing from me, Jill…
…something is disappearing from me, Jill…
…something is disappearing, Jill…
…Jill?!...
...Something is disappearing, Jill...
VOICE I-ONE: “Neuro-implant I-One. An invasive neuro-program operatingon the basis of advanced artificial intelligence, implanted using a next-generation neural chip compatible with biological tissue…
Its primary function is the correction of neuropsychological disorders, the optimization of cognitive processes, and the formation of stable emotional regulation in the user… The program is also used as part of a court-approved alternative to incarceration, replacing imprisonment with neural therapy…”
…thank you for letting me vent…goodnight, Jill…and once again thank you for the dress- it’s wonderful…
…Michael, do you really like my new dress?.. although it’s not new at all, it’s Jill’s dress…
…Michael, do you really like my new dress?..
…Michael, do you really like my new dress?..
…really, it’s wonderful, Michael?...
VOICE I-ONE:
“Neurochemical convergence… Glutamate↑**, GABA**↓**, 5-HT regulation weakened… Neuronal excitability**↑**, inhibition threshold gone… Hyper-oscillation of images, flow without selection…”**
…if you, Madam Liberal Slut, look at my husband like that one more time, I will gouge your eyes out with this table knife…
…good night, Jill… and once again thank you for the dress…
…it seems to me that something is happening to me, Jill…
…something is happening to me, Jill!..
…Jill?..
…it seems to me that something in me is disappearing somewhere…
…today you cannot sleep with me, Esther, because daddy is sleeping at home tonight…
…today daddy is sleeping in our bed…
…today daddy is sleeping with me…
…there, there, don’t cry… come here… don’t cry, I promise that when daddy leaves again, you will sleep with me… I promise he will never do it again… I promise he will never lock you in there again… do you understand me, Daniel?!..
…no, no, my daughter, grandmother cannot hear you, she is very old and understands nothing…
…our grandmother has not understood for a long time… she does not understand that you are her great-grandchildren, and I am her granddaughter…
…listen, Michael, in the same apartment with you, in the next room, lives our grandmother - a woman who as a child went through all that terrible hell of October 7… as a child went through all that terrible hell… as a child went through 586…70…1096…1492…1939…1942…7.10.2..0..2..3… October… February… November…
…Monday… Wednesday… Thursday… you know, Michael, that my mother died very early… my father abandoned me… and a crow gets tangled in the wires… it will die now… the crow will die…
…and you watch as that wretch calmly works at your department…
…you know perfectly well, Michael, that I stopped speaking to my father when I was 17…
…she works at your department, Michael!..
…at 17 I moved to live in the United States and we never saw each other again, because he said monstrous words to me about his mother…
…and on top of that she teaches your son French…
…at 17 I moved to live in the United States… monstrous words…
…about his mother…
…because he said monstrous words to me about his mother…
…your grandmother no longer recognizes us, Esther… our grandmother no longer recognizes you, Daniel… about his mother, father…
…and besides, no one is capable of fixing what has happened or what may soon happen… or what may have already happened, what should already have happened and may have already soon happened…
…maybe it has already soon happened, Michael…
…maybe it has already soon happened, my dear…
…maybe soon everything is disappearing, Jill…
…good night, Jill…
…this day is disappearing, Jill…
…this day is disappearing, Jill…
VOICE I-ONE:
“Emotional regulation… Amygdala hyper↑… HPA-axis: CRH↑, ACTH↑, Cortisol↑… Limbic dominance… Impulsive reactivity…”
…no, she doesn’t recognize us anymore, and so there is no need to go into her room, and especially not to lock Esther in there, do you understand me, Daniel?!.. I am not joking with you, Madame Stinking Camembert… if you look at my husband again with that playful-whorish-French look!.. I will gouge your eyes out with a table knife… grandmother doesn’t recognize us anymore… can you imagine how hard it is to live with your own grandmother who no longer recognizes me, Jill?.. good night, Jill… thank you for letting me vent… besides you I have no one, Jill… and thank you for the dress, it is so wonderful…
…this dress is so wonderful!..
…your grandmother went through so much as a child…
…your grandmother was terrified as a child…
…very, very terrified…
…I am very, very terrified, Jill!..
…and that is why your grandmother deserves silence…
…your grandmother deserves to die in silence…
…hold me, water… the legacy of tired wet pillars… and loneliness in our damned Boston… these are poems by George Milgray, my favorite American poet from Boston… hold me, water, among the tired and wet pillars of the legacy of meaningless and useless times… and loneliness in the water… and a knife in the hands of water… a table knife of water… the fate of fate…
…lately it has been happening to me more and more often, Michael, that I feel I do not love everyone who is like you…
…hold me, water… the legacy of tired wet pillars…
…we are not paying you to make eyes at my husband here, but to teach our son… but to teach our son Daniel… thank you for the dress and good night, Jill…
…Daniel, bring me my phone, it’s ringing somewhere…
…I need to place an order online… Daniel!..
…bring me my phone, it’s ringing somewhere…
…help me, Esther, Daniel, help me! set the plates on the table, I’m placing several orders online at the same time…
…it’s ringing somewhere…
…Please, carry it in very carefully… please don’t scratch the walls… like that, carry it in and place it right here… this is where it belongs…it’s good that nothing got scratched… thank you, guys, for your good work…
…it’s ringing somewhere…
…yes, my dear, exactly! I really do have far too many duties and things to do…
…thank you, guys, for your good work…
…my mother died when I was just a child, and my father was the son of a Polish diplomat who said such monstrous words about his mother, a Jewish woman… you wouldn’t believe it, Jill, but I make around fifty calls a day…
…I register on online platforms in order to order only the very best… and also I have to listen to this news…I have to watch all these boring films… I have to, because I don’t want to fall behind, Jill…
…because I don’t want to fall behind them, all my acquaintances and friends… behind society… and so I have to listen to this news, even if only on the radio… watch these series, even if only from Friday to Saturday… even if only from Saturday to Friday… my father is a Polish diplomat… because I was born in Warsaw, Jill… my father was a Polish diplomat… because that’s how it happens, Jill… about his own mother… monstrous words, Jill… I think I warned you, Daniel… I warned you, you German Gestapo woman, Julie…
VOICE I-ONE:
“Inner speech is declinated into separate utterances without a subject… emotion is experienced as ‘there is pain/sound/color,’ and not as ‘mine’… there is no one who would be ‘I’; there are only configurations of contents…”
…unfortunately, from early morning until evening I am connected to the network… orders, views… communication… applications… and I think I am very tired, Jill… it seems this is all too intense for me, too active… I think I am very tired, Jill…
…in the center of my attention there is too much… the focus of my attention constantly jumps from one object to another… but there are too many of these objects, Jill…
…there are too many objects, Jill… too many objects… it hurts too much… there are too many of them… it hurts too much, Jill… I am alone, Jill… where is everyone else, Jill?.. where is everyone else, Jill?..
…are you here, Jill?..
…and where is everyone else, where did everyone go?.. this whole damned world?..
…what if nothing actually exists at all, Jill?..
…I am very lonely, Jill…
…people are very lonely, Jill…
…I am only very lonely, Michael… I am only very lonely, Mom… I am only very lonely, Mr. Welly… my mother died when I was only 5 years old, Your Honor, and since then I have always lived all alone… I am only alone, Your Honor… and all of you… all of you are only alone… we are all only alone, Mr. Welly… all of you are only very lonely, aren’t you?..
…all of you are very lonely, aren’t you?..
…and aren’t you lonely, well, aren’t you?..
…well, aren’t we all lonely, well, aren’t we?..
…but don’t think that I’m complaining, Jill… no!..
…no!.. of course not!.. I’m not complaining…
VOICE I-ONE:
“Self-reflection and moral control… vmPFC — off… DLPFC — deactivated… VLPFC — no moral regulation… GABA↓, Glutamate↑… Result: cognitive control lost… between intention and movement — no distinction…”
…I have ADHD, and I make around fifty phone calls a day, Jill… I have depression, and I spend all day checking emails and messages, it’s only me who does it…
“On a scale from zero to ten, how would you rate your pain today?”
“This is not medical advice; I’ll schedule you with a clinician.”
“To proceed, I’ll send you a brief consent to contact. May I confirm your email?”
“The initial screening takes 30–40 minutes via Zoom; please have your ID and insurance card.”
“If you miss the slot, text me ‘RESCHEDULE’ and I’ll call you back within 15 minutes.”
VOICE I-ONE:
“General procedure order:
- Full brain mapping using MRI and PET scanning
- Minimally invasive implantation of the chip into the temporoparietal region of the brain
- Initiation of the activation impulse sequence
- Secure connection to the cloud and initial synchronization
- Completion of implant registration in the I-One NeuroCloud system
After successful installation, the chip enters adaptation mode.”
…and on top of that, all the household chores are only on me… Michael doesn’t even know how the money from our account ends up in the accounts of the city utilities… Michael doesn’t even know how the money from our account ends up in the pockets of school teachers, how our money ends up in children’s clothing stores… how I buy all these groceries with our money… how I listen to the news… how I watch series… Michael doesn’t even know how I watch films… doesn’t even know how I watch series… he doesn’t even know how I am in constant stress… how I worry about an enormous number of things at the same time, Jill… don’t you dare lock your sister in grandmother’s room, Daniel… everything is happening at the same time… in my cursed brain everything is occruing all at once… my mind was dreamed up by my mind…
…The creator of my mind is a mind…
…of a mind - The mind!..
…turn off that horrible sound, those disgusting news have flooded our whole house, Michael!.. and besides, our children must not hear this!..
… I tell her, excuse me, madam lousy-name Julie, but I am not paying you to have dirty affairs with my husband…
…turn it all off!..
…turn it all off!..
VOICE I-ONE:
“vmPFC (ventromedial prefrontal cortex), DLPFC (dorsolateral), VLPFC (ventrolateral) — deactivated ⇒**”**
…having found my adopted son at the bottom of the pool… having found a table knife in my right hand!.. having found the French satanist-liberal tutor, madam Julie, bleeding… I immediately called the police…
VOICE I-ONE:
“OFC (orbitofrontal cortex) ‘loses consequence control’ ⇒**
… ACC (anterior cingulate cortex) — ‘silent’** ⇒**steady beeps in the phone line”**
steady beeps in the phone line
VOICE I-ONE:
“Insula — ‘silent’ ⇒ weak interoception / Mirror-neuron / empathy network- ‘offline’ ⇒**”**
…bring me my phone, Daniel, my son… do you hear, it’s ringing somewhere… I still need to check the mail… check the messages on the phone… check whether Daniel is on time for French lessons… check whether Esther has returned from school… check lunch… check dinner… 24/7… I am a housewife… I do many, many things at the same time…
VOICE I-ONE:
“…allow me to play you beautiful music… listen to this beautiful voice and beautiful melody… listen to this beautiful voice and beautiful melody… listen to this beautiful… and beautiful melody…”
…having found my son Daniel at the bottom of the pool, I immediately called the police… having found that wretched bleeding madam “one-eyed bandit” Julie… I called the electronic communications service of our district…
…as soon as I saw what had happened right outside our windows in the wires, I immediately called the district electrician… bring me my phone, Daniel, my son… do you hear, it’s ringing somewhere… please, don’t hang up, just a minute, Mr. Welly… her eye flung itself upon the table knife in my hands, Your Honor… the eye flung itself upon the knife, Your Honor… and what is good about that, Michael?..
…the eye flung itself upon the knife…
…the fate of fate…
…don’t hang up, Mr. Welly, I’ll be right back, it seems that something has happened to my son at the bottom of the pool… luckily, the electrician of our district lives on our street… so as soon as I discovered that madam Julie’s eye suddenly flung itself upon the knife… the fate of fate… luckily, the electrician of our district, Mr. Welly, lives right across from our house…
…luckily!..
…when a glass falls to the floor and shatters, everyone shouts- for luck…
…and everyone shouts- for luck…
…for luck!..
…and everyone shouts…
…for luck!..
VOICE I-ONE:
“… Amygdala (BLA — basolateral, CeA — central) ↑ ⇒ fear/rage, reactivity… PAG (periaqueductal gray) — ‘preparation for aggression’ ⇒ defensive-aggressive patterns… PFC↔amygdala disconnect ⇒ limbic system acts without cortical ‘brake’…”
…but alas, our grandmother no longer recognizes us, children… don’t switch it off, Michael, I’m watching this series, with one eye, but I’m watching… so there is no need to go into her room… do you understand me, Daniel?.. hello?!.. please don’t hang up, Mr. Welly…
…don’t hang up, Mr. Welly…
…everyone shouts- for luck…
…all of this is happening in my brain at the same time… our grandmother has stopped recognizing us and now we take care only of her body… which is still alive… the body of our grandmother still eats and lives…
…our grandmother eats and lives…
…I think there is no longer any point in you visiting our grandmother… since she is now only the physical body of an elderly woman… she no longer knows that she exists in this damned world!.. in which eyes throw themselves onto knives… in which pools drag our children down to their very bottom…
…well, you will not deny that in our world eyes throw themselves onto knives and pools drag our children down to their very bottom…
…please bring it in very carefully… please don’t scratch the walls… like that, bring it in and place it right here… this is where it belongs… good thing nothing got scratched… thank you, guys, for your good work… turn off those… damned news, Michael, they have flooded the whole house!.. children, Michael, come to dinner… I warned you, Daniel…
…I am so glad that now we have a piano in the house, Michael… thank you, guys, for your good work…
VOICE I-ONE:
“HPA-axis (hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal): CRH↑, ACTH↑, Cortisol↑- acute stress…”
…hello, Mr. Welly? This is your neighbor Judy again… yes, I called you this morning… but I couldn’t reach you… actually, it is customary for cultured people to call back… actually, for half a day now we have been looking at the burned corpse of a crow that was electrocuted and is now hanging right in front of our house on the wires… right in front of our windows and my children are forced to look at this charred bird corpse… and who will remove it if not your service?.. what do you mean, it’s not your responsibility?!.. then whose is it?!..
VOICE I-ONE:
“EEG: frontal beta-suppression (reduced frontal activity), theta-bursts / delta-spikes- state of high reactivity/disintegration of control…”
…I listened to what they say on the news portals… heard what they say on playgrounds and everywhere, in all these places, everyone says the same thing… you will die soon… they are already dead and you will die soon… they have already been killed and you will soon be killed… everywhere everyone says the same thing… they have all been killed and you will all soon be killed… having found a table knife in my right hand… I am not keeping up, Jill… as one of my favorite American poets wrote: “we are all carried by the river into the meaninglessness of time”… grandmother no longer recognizes us… good night, Jill…
VOICE OF I-ONE: \text{Self} = f(\text{DMN} + \text{Interoception} + \text{Control}) \frac{d}{dt}\Phi_\text{self} < 0 \Rightarrow \text{Loss of global integration} \Rightarrow \text{Ego dissolution} I(\text{DMN};\text{FPCN}) \downarrow,\quad \rho_\text{DMN-FPCN} \to 0 \quad\Rightarrow\quad \text{No continuous self-model.}
…and having found a table knife in my right hand… and having found the bleeding madam Let-The-French-River-Carry-You-Into-the-Meaninglessness-of-Time… the soul flows out of a person drop by drop until the last drop of the soul remains…
…I warned you, Daniel…
…the last drop of the soul…
…drip…
VOICE I-ONE:
“Periphery: HR 148/min, skin conductance ↑, pupils maximally dilated… GABA↓, Glutamate↑- inhibition weakened, excitation increased… 5-HTTLPR s/s, MAO-A low, COMT Val/Val- tendency toward lower monoaminergic regulation… BDNF↓- reduced plasticity / stress resistance… SMA → PMC → M1- motor preparation chain… ‘Motor pattern: directed movement of hand and body into water’…”
Whoever you are, great god,
If the name Brain pleases you,
Then Brain be your name.
There is nothing in the world
That could compare with you.
Only you can free my soul
From vain pain.
VOICE I-ONE:
“vestibular feedback” (balance disturbance), tracheal reflex partially suppressed (aspiration)… I’m not paying you to flirt… “Orbital impact → retinal laceration; optic nerve shearing…”- impact/ penetration into the orbital region⇒ retinal rupture, damage to the optic nerve (risk of irreversible blindness)…”
To praise the Brain with a song of victory-
That is to be wise.
Through suffering, through pain,
The Brain leads people to the mind,
Leads them to understanding.
VOICE I-ONE:
“…distortion zone detected… system begins elimination of primary dysfunction sources…”
Memory of suffering, relentless,
At night, in sleep, tightens hearts,
Forcing wisdom.
The Brain knows no compassion.
The Brain uses you.
VOICE I-ONE:
“…attention! You will now hear beautiful music. Relax. Let the magical notes of this great music heal you”
…it seems that great culture can no longer save you, madam robbed-in-broad-daylight Louvre Julie…
VOICE I-ONE:
“…listen to this magnificent music… Relax…Let the magical notes of this great music heal you…”
…it seems that great culture will not pull you out from the bottom of the pool, poor Daniel…
VOICE I-ONE: “…and now, imagine people living in an underground dwelling, like a cave. From childhood their legs and necks are bound so that they can look only straight ahead. Behind them a fire burns, and between the fire and the prisoners runs a road. People carry various objects, and their shadows fall on the wall in front of the prisoners. And if these people could speak, they would think that what they see is reality itself.”
…he says this because it is his son, Your Honor…
…of course he says this because it is his son, Your Honor…
…whom only I raised, because Michael is always working…
…he is always working…
…I repeat, Your Honor, I immediately called the police and informed them of what had happened……actually, cultured people are expected to call back, Mr. Welly, after all, birds that have died on the wires are the responsibility of the city services, which is why I am calling you, Mr. Welly…
…I repeat, my husband feels an acute sense of guilt for not spending enough time with his son, for not keeping an eye on him, including on that very day when the 12-year-old boy was playing alone by the pool…
…yes, I believe Daniel was a monster, because he truly was…
…not only because of that…
…listen, Your Honor, this boy locked my daughter Esther in grandmother’s room and caused her many other sufferings…he would beat and bite her, and constantly scare her…so that the poor girl would scream in her sleep for weeks, because she would have nightmares
…I repeat, only one person is guilty for what happened- my husband…
…I repeat, this was not just my son’s French tutor… I repeat…
…it was a leftist, an anarchist… I repeat… who made cunning, sly eyes at my husband… and so it is not surprising that one of those sly little eyes threw itself right onto the knife… the fate of fate, Mr. Welly…
…if you do not leave Esther alone, Daniel!..
…if you do not leave our poor grandmother alone…
…she has earned the right to die in silence…
…because she has earned the right to die in silence…
…the table knife digs the lies out of her eyes…
…the table knife digs death out of her cunning little eyes…
…you are crying bloody tears, madam Julie… death is the main judge, Your Honor…
…I repeat, death is our main judge, Your Honor…
…do not go near the water…
…everything is disappearing, Jill…
…everything is disappearing, Jill…
…I did something terrible… and now I am terrified, Jill…
…the court offered me an “alternative correction,” Jill…
…either prison or alternative correction, do you understand, Jill?..
…you understand- there is not much choice…
…especially since I cannot calmly sit in prison while my husband and his dead one-eyed lover raise my daughter Esther, Your Honor…
…of course I agreed to the neuro-implant, Jill…
…after all I work at this company myself as a Patient Recruitment / Outreach Coordinator…
…he offered to insert into my brain… well of course, I choose “alternative correction,” Michael…
…because I am not only a housewife, but I also work as a Patient Recruitment/ Outreach Coordinator in a company that implants I-One neuro-implants into the brain… 24/7…
…09:00–09:30- review of new leads, assignment of statuses: New → Contacted → Qualified/Disqualified.
…09:30–12:30- calls/callbacks according to script, initial screening, booking slots, sending “consent to contact.”
…13:00–149218- “no-show rescue”: reminders via SMS/call + rescheduling.
…14:00–15:00 – 16...117… — CRM updates, e-documents, “What to expect” emails.
…19:00–20:00 — calling across other time zones / those “unavailable during the day.”
…zero… infinity… one point six one three… seven point two eight eight… two one six… six point one… nine nine nine…
…after all, I am who I am…
…and then I will not sit in prison, Jill…
…how do you like that turn of events, Michael?.. huh?..
…huh, Michael?!..
…how do you like that twist, my dear?.. you thought that while I would be sitting in prison you would calmly be raising our daughter… but now it may turn out differently… so I, of course, would like to choose, so I, naturally, would like to choose the alternative path of correction, Your Honor, because I am afraid that while I sit in prison my husband together with his dead one-eyed lover will raise our daughter… especially since I work in this company myself as a Patient Recruitment/ Outreach Coordinator… Huh, Michael?!..
…especially… huh, Michael?!..
…how do you like that turn of events, Michael?..
…huh?..
VOICE I-ONE:
“Destabilization of the mental state… the program increases its impact on neural activity. The process of displacement and substitution begins… suppression of the upper frontal regions to complete dysfunction… the substitution process enters the active phase… pressure increases by 74%… the substitution process enters the final phase…”
…when I was a little girl, my father took me with him to the funeral of Pope Francis… I was 8… 9… 12 years old, and I memorized everything, everything…
…I remember everything, Your Honor…
…my father was a Polish diplomat, and he took me with him to the funeral of Pope Francis of Assisi…
…you know, I was incredibly lucky as a child… I was at the funeral of Francis of Assisi…
…Francis of Assisi claimed that there is no death, and I was at his funeral, Your Honor… I choose the alternative path of correction… there is no death…
…this is of great importance that I remember everything, Your Honor…
…there is no death…
…Jill is my best friend, Your Holiness…
…and besides, we have been friends for twenty years… her name is Jill…
…Jill is twenty years older than me…
…of course Jill exists, Your Honor… she always appears at the exact moment when I want to speak to her…
…this is amazing!..
…all of you appear at the exact moment when I want it…
…this is amazing!..
…Daniel is my husband’s son from his first wife… but I have always treated him as my own son… and then, when Michael and me had Esther… why are you crying, Esther?.. what happened, my daughter?.. again?!..
VOICE I-ONE:
“Between action and subject there may arise… between action and subject… there may arise… a post-factum effect: a false sense of choice… there may arise an effect… a false sense of choice… a sensation of false choice may arise…”
…I raise two children alone, Your Honor, because my husband is always at work… but then I was able to become pregnant and our daughter Esther was born… I raise two children alone, including his child… our child, because I have always treated Daniel as my own son…
…thank you for the dress, Jill, and good night…
…having found a knife in my right hand…
…because then she was lying on the floor and her soul was flowing out of her through the gouged-out eye…
…her entire being flowed out of her body through her eye… because we are not paying you to make eyes at my husband, but to teach our son Daniel French…
…and instead of sitting in prison, I chose the program of alternative correction… how do you like that option, huh, Michael?..
…Good night, Jill…
VOICE I-ONE:
“Neural activation circuit (Phase I)… primary mapping is constructed via fMRI + diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)… the system initiates low-amplitude high-frequency stimulation in ACC, Insula, and VMPFC… Compensatory Rebinding Loop (CRL) is activated- a self-model reassembly chain… DLPFC-VLPFC desynchronization → signal desynchronizes between volitional regulation and semantic self-awareness regions…”
…hold me, water… the legacy of tired wet pillars… and loneliness in our damned Boston… these are poems by George Milgray, my favorite American poet from Boston… hold me, water among the tired and wet pillars of the legacy of meaningless and useless times… and loneliness in the water… and a knife in the hands of water… a table knife of water… the fate of fate…
VOICE I-ONE:
“All commands are processed through subcortical interpretation of impulses… all activity is recorded in the session log with 256-bit encryption…”
…that is why I don’t like it when you speak like that, Michael! Because, after all, admit it, neither you nor I can know what is really on their minds, because as the great Sufi Hamrat Ibrahim Khan once said… as my favorite American poet George Milgray from Boston once said… every person is a note, and God is music… children may not yet understand this, Michael… every person is a note, and God is music… children may not understand this, Your Honor…
VOICE I-ONE:
“Emergency shutdown is possible via biometric panel or by physician signal…”
George Milgray
“Fate of Fate”
Hold me, water,
Among the tired and wet pillars of the legacy
Of meaningless and useless times…
There, where meaning is lost and faith in the Self is lost…
I - am only faith in the Self…
I - am faith in meaning…
Meaning — is only faith in the Self.
…abuse is not what I came into this world for, Michael…
…guilt is not what I came into this world for, Your Honor… guilt is not what I came into this world for, Your Honor… that is why I love this poet, Milgray… that is why I know his poem by heart…
Fate, my dear, be careful.
Fate of fate- be careful, my dear.
Among the tired and wet pillars, gondolas and sounds,
Of meaningless and useless times…
Fate, be careful, washes away the meaning of fate…
Fate- is I…
I - am fate…
I - am the fate of fate…
…fear is not what I was born into this world for, father!...That is why I love this poet… that is why if you have a cruel heart, do not go near the water, Daniel…
…cunning and lies- that is why I came into this world, madam Julie…
Therefore do not go near the water…
Do not go near the water…
When you stand at the edge,
Be careful, my dear,
Do not go near the water.
Do not go near fate…
Do not approach your fate, your fate…
Fate of fate.
VOICE I-ONE:
“The presence of the program is confirmed… Emotional response deactivated… State stable…”
…please bring it in very carefully… like that, bring it in and place it right here… good thing that nothing got scratched… thank you, guys, for your good work…
…tomorrow I will buy sheet music and they will play my favorite music, Michael… good thing that nothing got scratched… thank you, guys, for your good work… great music, like all great art, will save us, Michael… forgive me, father, that I did not say goodbye to you… I advise you, before death, to listen to beautiful music. Relax, father. Allow the magical notes of this great music to carry you to heaven…
…every person is a note, and music, after death, may exist, father…
…and what if there is none… what if there is none… absolutely no music after your death… forgive me, father…
VOICE I-ONE:
“Full sensory synchronization with the external environment… Perception of smells, but without emotional associations… Color perception- saturated, precise… Visual filters operating in enhanced mode… Contrast increased… Hearing sharpened… Pulse slowed…”
…and what if no great culture awaits you at the bottom of the pool, Daniel…
…every person is a note, and God is music…
VOICE I-ONE:
“Program activated… System has completed initial neuro-adaptation…”
…and what if all this great world culture flows out of your cunning little eye together with all your French-Louis-Voltaire blood, madam Eye-Throwing-Itself-on-the-Knife Julie…
…every person is memory, and God is tragedy…
…it is impossible to escape from God, Michael…
…it is impossible to escape from one’s own memory, Your Holiness, because as one great Sufi said: “every person is tragedy, and God is memory”… 7th, 17th, 22nd, 11th, every day… 24/7… well, you know, Jill…
…you know me, Jill?..
…she always appears when I think of her, Your Honor… you know me, Jill?..
…every person is I, and I- am suffering, Your Holiness…
VOICE I-ONE:
“By default, the following has been selected for you: Mode No. 3 — Calming… You may change it at any moment by simply formulating mentally: ‘Change mode.’”
…don’t be afraid, Esther, he won’t do that again, I promise you!..
…listen, Michael, in the same apartment with you, in the next room, lives our grandmother- a woman who, as a child, went through this entire horrifying hell… who never really got through that hell, my dear… who lived her entire life in this endless hell… every person is hell, and God is the endless memory of that hell, my dear…
VOICE I-ONE:
“Cognitive system fatigue level: critical… Based on these parameters, deep neuro-ethics mode will be activated… This means that each of my responses will be accompanied by careful guidance and stress regulation…”
…fate, my dear, be careful… fate of fate- be careful, my dear…
VOICE I-ONE:
“All processes are currently limited to the domain of emotional regulation and executive cognitive functions…”
…did you understand me well, Daniel?..
…I will also say in court- I am afraid that my husband Michael will raise my daughter Esther if the court decides to leave her with him… and he may instill in her false and very dangerous ideas about justice… the idea of justice is the most terrifying idea on the planet, Michael…
… the idea of universal justice is worse than the idea of fascism, although it would seem- what could be worse than fascism?.. only the idea of justice…
…thank you for the dress… good night, Jill…
VOICE I-ONE:
“Baseline mapping of neuroprofile… Analysis of neurotransmitter balance, lateral asymmetry, neural reactivity…”
…and therefore, this is what I would like to say to you in closing, Mr. Welly. I know you will do it your own way anyway, and indeed, that is how it should be. That is how one should act, Mr. Welly, you do everything right, perhaps except for one thing- and that thing is caring for yourself, my dear. Because, watching your life all these years, I have noticed that you work too much, my dear neighbor. You are well over sixty, and you still, from morning till evening, deal with all the electricity of our district. You rise on a mini-lift to the electrical wires outside, fix wiring in our kitchens, connect electric pumps in swimming pools, and hang garlands on the roofs of elderly couples. I know, I know, my dear Mr. Welly, that you love your work very much. But isn’t it time for you to devote a little time to yourself? By no means should you think that I am trying to interfere in your life or give you advice- I am absolutely sure you do not need anyone’s advice, especially not from a woman like me- a housewife who has done so many terrible things. And yet I will allow myself to give you one piece of advice- I do this solely out of gratitude for the fact that all this time you have been fixing the Light for all of us. So here is what I will say- devote the remaining time of your life only to yourself. Engage with your feelings, your pain, your desires, and finally your own sense of yourself. That is my farewell advice to you, dear Welly, and knowing your character, I suspect you will not follow it. Well then! It was important for me to tell you all this, and especially to thank you for that incident with the poor crow tangled in the wires right in front of our windows. I thank you for pulling it out of the wires, even though by that moment it was already dead- but as we know, by that moment many were already dead. So I thank you, dear Welly, and I ask you- devote your life to yourself! When you fix wires or watch those terrible news on television, or when you cry remembering your recently deceased wife Corey! Every second devote your life only to yourself. I know, you will still do it your own way, Jill…
VOICE I-ONE:
“DMN connectivity ↓: medial prefrontal cortex ↔ posterior cingulate/precuneus ↔ hippocampus- reduced intra-network integration; DMN ↔ fronto-parietal network disconnected…”
…and although my own character is far from perfect, your persistence will surpass three people like me. Devote your life to yourself, Jill, believe me, this is the only right action we can take in this life. Everything else has no meaning at all, as it has recently turned out, no meaning at all- I now know this for certain and I ask you to believe me, Jill, because in this universe, Michael, there exists only one single life and it is yours. There exists only your life, Mr. Welly, and no other life besides yours exists or can exist. That is why I love you, Esther. That is why I love you, mom. Only knowing that you do not actually exist can I truly love you, father. Knowing that there is only me, I can love anyone I want. That is why now I love you, mademoiselle Julie. That is why I love you, Daniel.
VOICE I-ONE:
“Global broadcasting disrupted: long-range fronto-parietal circuits do not support stable access to unified content…”
…that is why I say that you work too much for others, seeking their approval and love, Mr. Welly. But no one can love you except yourself, because there is no one here except you yourself. There is only me, Jill, and therefore I love you. There is only me, grandmother Meira- I love you. Knowing that there is no one except me, I can love everyone, and therefore here is my farewell advice to you, Mr. Welly. Focus only on your own life and on no one else’s, my dear. Because, as I have already said, no other life exists besides yours. I know you will still do it your own way, and indeed that is how it should be. That is how one should act, Your Holiness- you do everything right, perhaps except for one thing, and that thing is social laws, Your Honor. I repeat, you are wasting your time on this, because society is only you, Mr. Welly. Laws are you, Your Honor, and there is no one except you who can break or follow these laws. You create the laws yourself, and you break them yourself. You punish yourself, and you try to change your life for the better. Your personal life, at the bottom of your own pool- I think I warned you, Daniel- that is why I love you…
VOICE I-ONE:
“Autobiographical stitching of episodes t-1 → t → t+1 not performed…”
…my mother died of her own cancer, Your Holiness, and since we will never see each other again, I would like to say this to you in farewell, my dear French madam- I was simply jealous of you because my husband always looked so happy and radiant with you that I could not bear it, but now, my dear Julie- I love you…
VOICE I-ONE:
“Inner speech is declinated into separate statements without subject…”
…but now, my dear, my beloved Michael, I truly wish you happiness. Be happy, my dear, I love you…
VOICE I-ONE:
“Indexical markers ‘I/me/mine’ are removed from circulation…”
I am alone, and therefore I love you, Esther. I am alone, and therefore I want to ask forgiveness from all of you. I ask forgiveness from all of you. Forgive me for having lived all these years without any love for you.
VOICE I-ONE:
“Mutual information I(DMN;FPCN) ↓, network integration metric declining…”
…forgive me for not loving you, my son. Forgive me for not loving you, mother. I did not love you, Michael,I did not love you, Jill,I did not love you, Mr. Welly. I did not love you, father. I did not love our entire family and all of you, all of you, until I understood with absolute clarity that I am alone here…
VOICE I-ONE:
“Unified self-broadcast does not emerge… absence of center, absence of continuity, absence of ‘me’…”
…and therefore, this is what I would like to say to you in closing, Mr. Welly… When I looked out the window and watched you pulling the dead crow, tangled in the wires opposite our house, out of them, and putting it into a black plastic garbage bag, then I understood, Your Honor, that the death of that poor bird and the death of the twelve-year-old boy lying at the bottom of the pool do not in any way add up into one single whole, Michael. And so, this is what I would like to say to you in parting, Judy. If you want to love, then you need to stop being anyone other than me. I am alone. And therefore, from now on, you no longer exist, Judy. I am alone… but what is happening to me now?..
VOICE I-ONE:
“Now I will begin gentle synchronization with your cognitive and sensory centers… Please relax. Do not make any decisions. Simply allow the process to begin…”
…but I would like to understand what is happening to me?!.
…something is happening to me, Mr. Welly… everything is disappearing, Jill… I am disappearing, Jill…
VOICE I-ONE:
“At any moment you may use mental commands:
… ‘analyze current state’…
… ‘reduce anxiety’…
… ‘activate focus’…”
…when I was 12 years old my father, a Polish diplomat, took me to the funeral of the Pope because there is no death… I was 12…18…24…42… and I am… and I am continuous… and my self is continuous… I am always continuous… my self is continuous… I am always - I… I am always I…
…no… I am always alone… no… your life is not continuous, Judy… people only think that God is a good guy, but in fact God is very bad and not at all, at all a guy… the quality of God depends entirely and completely on your desire, Judy… you must answer yourself the question- do you want to change this bad God into a good one?..
VOICE I-ONE:
“God is entirely and completely in your hands, Judy… God created people so that they might be able to change him…”
…that is why I love you, Mr. Crow… that is why I love you, Madam Water… that is why I called the police as soon as it happened… do not hang up, Mr. Welly… the external world exists… if I live, then my external world exists… my memories, my tears, my loneliness, my mother who died in my childhood, my grandmother who raised me, all still exist, my daughter Esther still exists, my dead son Daniel still exists… my dead son exists…
VOICE I-ONE:
“Identification complete… The implant has been synchronized with your neural activity… Your data are protected by 256-bit encryption and stored in an isolated environment… If you do not like your God, change him… My task is to help you become more stable, calm, and clear… God creates this world the way you see it, therefore if you want to change the world, then change God… You are in the initial phase of neuroadaptation…
…I-one… my dead ancestors exist… my nationality exists… that is why I love you, water… that is why I resist you, Lord God… that is why I and my ancient, ancient people resist the First Coming of the Lord, because we suspect that the First Coming will immediately become the Second, and therefore the very last… and therefore the First again, because religion is expectation, and expectation is a closed circle… and God, my dear Mr. Welly… is the one who will kill everyone… I am alone…
VOICE I-ONE:
“Hello. I am I-One. My purpose is to help you become more stable, calm, and clear… I am now connecting to your neural activity… the main obstacle on the path to God is God…”
…that is exactly why I am against you, God… I am alone… I stand against you, God… I am alone… a note is a closed circle and that is exactly why I am alone… a word is a closed circle and that is why I am alone… faith is a damned closed circle, and God is the one who will kill us all… the name of God- I am alone… and that is exactly why only I alone can break this billion-y e a r-old closed circle…
VOICE I-ONE:
“DMN connectivity ↓**: medial prefrontal cortex** ↔ **posterior cingulate/precuneus** ↔ **hippocampus reduce intra-network integration; DMN** ↔ **fronto-parietal network disconnect…”**
…every person is a note — and God is the one who will kill us all, Jill…
VOICE I-ONE:
“Global broadcasting is disrupted: long-distance fronto-parietal circuits do not support stable access to unified content…
…every person is a nationality- and God is the one who will kill all our nationalities, Michael, I hope you are watching television, my dear, that is exactly what everything there is about… every person is a culture, and God is the one who will kill all our cultures, mister holy Francis, I hope you are reading the news on the internet, Your Holiness, because that is exactly what everything there is about… every person is an individuality, and God is the one who will erase all our individualities, mister crow, I hope you are following the climate changes tangled in the electrical wires, Your Honor…
VOICE I-ONE:
“Post-disintegration phase /… delta/phi-state / Absolute Integration Mode… Self-model integration function = 0…
…but I will resist to the very end, Michael!.. I warned you, Daniel, that I would resist to the very end!.. I will resist to the very end, madame One-Eyed France!.. Blow after blow!.. to the end!.. blow after blow, to the very end!..
VOICE I-ONE:
“Neural activity is balanced… All network oscillations are phase-synchronized… The parameter ‘I’ has been excluded from the model… ‘Self Function = completed… Self → ∞ / 0…’”
…blow after blow of fate!.. blow after blow to the very end of fate!.. I will resist to the very end of my fate, my dear b i l l i o n-y e a r-old closed circle… I cannot go on anymore, mother…
…the name of our God is I-one… I surrender, Michael… I am alone… my father was a Polish diplomat, when I was 12 years old he took me… erase me, water, erase my empire within me down to the bottom… erase my country within me down to the bottom… erase my love for myself within me, water… erase my dreams of time and my people within me always… erase within me always… all my people and blood and memory of love erase within me, fate… fate of fate to the bottom… becomes you… water… only water… becomes you… and me…
…I-one…
VOICE I-ONE:
“I-One is an invasive neuro-program operating on the basis of advanced artificial intelligence… The program is also used as part of a court-approved alternative to incarceration, replacing imprisonment with neural therapy… I-One is registered as an approved neural intervention within alternative criminal rehabilitation in the United States, Canada, the EU, and Japan…”
…that is why I do not like it when you speak like that, Michael! Because, after all, admit it, neither you nor I can know what is really on their minds…
…and I, for one, do not know that either!..
VOICE I-ONE:
“The program may be implemented on a voluntary basis or by court decision…”
…well now you see, Michael… well now, you see, real life always turns out to be half a step ahead of us…
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