– Yes, I have found a suitable candidate for the Earth experiment. One, a single individual. Might be suitable for parallel worlds in the future. You don't have to take a group at once. The main thing is that people should become friends with you, trust and believe in you.
– That's not bad. I was hoping for a completely trusting relationship.
– You misunderstand me. Very trusting. You're sending a man to a place where it's a completely alien world. Yes, it's the same, but that's what makes it completely alien. You're right when you say the signal can change, transform. Accordingly, she – this woman – will also be a little different. And this, of course, shocks a person. When you enter into another body, as you and the doctor did, you can simply be dissatisfied with the alien shell, but here you are also in conflict with yourself.
– You know, what you said had a strong effect on me… You said it so… heartily, it gave me goosebumps. It's really a shock to feel like yourself, but at the same time to know that it's not your real body.
Ruthra mentally contacted a fellow scientist.
– Look, have you delved into the intricacies of the psychological state of our candidate for the experiment?
– Which one?
– Anybody. If you were to be possessed by someone like you in a parallel world, and there was a time shift…
– So what?
– Well, think about if you suddenly find yourself, but you're older. What if after a while you have to have surgery? What if you survive a catastrophe and become disabled?
– What if you're already dead? Ha-ha-ha-ha.
– That's a thought. We didn't think of that.
The doctor fell silent. From Irene Ruthre's emotional state was being transmitted. It was becoming agitated, nervous.
– Yeah, listen… What if our man there is already dead? Or should be dead! That would be even more catastrophic! He'd have to die here, too. But what's the chronology? Before or after?
– No way. We're sending a live person. You know what I mean.
– Got it.
– Irene's already got a group here. I'll work with them, then we'll discuss the details. I think we definitely need a psychoanalyst, especially for women.
– Dangerous play we made without experimentation.
– With an experiment. I will.
– On the phone.
– On the phone.
Ruthra passed out.
– Where are your nominations?
– In the meantime, I'll arrange for you to meet with one person, a man. I've already worked out a program.
– Spit it out.
– Can you buy me a coffee? – I could hear a playful note in the computer's voice.
– Yeah, let's talk about it.
To an outside observer, it would seem strange, but their relationship had already become a habit – a common tea or coffee party between a human and an artificial mind, which the human made to resemble himself. He molded it in his own image and likeness, endowed it with his manners and psychology. Accordingly, the artificial mind was artificial only in words, but in fact it was a real person.
Rutra walked to the balcony and from a height of 30 meters contemplated the artificial lake on the shore of which the inhabitants of the underworld were resting. A world 500 meters deep. It was grandiose only because everything was underground. Many stations were located deep in the oceans and seas. The station at the bottom of the Mariana Trench was a masterpiece of human thought. Though Ruthra sometimes doubted whether it was human, since it could still move.
