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Parallel worlds – two. Birth of God - стр. 10

– What kind of games? – Andrian asked.

– Any kind of tabletop. It can project three-dimensional holography directly into the space in front of you.

– Then let's play chess.

– She heard you.

A chess table with fancy pieces in the form of medieval knights has sprung up.

– And why these particular figures?

– I think you know the answer to that yourself.

He smiled.

– What is it? – Iulia asked.

– Irene had probably read Andrian's thoughts. She saw what he presented," Katrine suggested. – He must have played chess with these pieces and liked them.

– Five points," Irene praised her to herself.

– Irene, do you feel like a woman or a computer? – Iulia asked.

– I can be many things. For example, right now, when I'm talking to you, I'm a lady. In the game with Andrian, I'm a man.

– Yeah. Goddamn, that's so weird. She's talking to me in a man's voice.

– Not talking, but mentally conversing," Catherine explained.

– You're very observant. Five points for you, too," Andrian answered her in a friendly manner.

Iulia continued to wonder at the AI.

– Irene, I mean, do you feel like a whole person? One person?

– No. I don't understand what it means to be one person at all. I'm everything. I'm the whole world.

– Oh! Even so. Are you a god?

– Is god so defined in human terms?

– Well, almost. I am the alpha and omega.

– That's just how he's sometimes referred to. Practically no one calls him that.

– What's it called?

– You know that.

– And you know that I know. I meant, what do you think people should call him?

– You're not being logical. What does "you know that I know" mean to my assertion that you know about it? It is already clear from my assertion that I know what you know about it, since I myself asserted it to you.

Iulia glanced over to Catherine, then asked her, lowering her voice slightly:

– What's she saying?

– She knows what you know.

– What do you mean, I said she knows that I know?

– You said, "and you know that I know." Didn't I?

– She said.

– So she tells you first what you know about what you are asking, due to the fact that you know what people call God. You know and you ask the question. Here she is telling you, "you know." Like, why are you asking me if you know? And then you tell her that she knows that you're aware of it. I mean, not aware, that's not the right word, but you know, you have information.

– What are you, sisters with her? What's this, Rutra? What have you done to Catherine? Maybe Irene's already moved into her brain. – a slight smile eased the tension a little.

Ruthra smiled as well.

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