Feodor Shkrudnev

What is the most resilient parasite? A bacterium? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. It is resilient and extremely contagious. Once it enters the brain, it is impossible to get rid of it. I mean a fully formed idea, completely realized and settled in the mind. This phrase describes more precisely than any scientific formula the mechanism through which humanity is kept within the boundaries of its own extinction. Death and aging ARE NOT merely biological processes — first and foremost, they are ideas. Ideas deeply rooted, socially reproduced, philosophically legitimized, and therefore practically invulnerable to superficial criticism. It is precisely in this that their resilience lies.

Every completion is merely the fixing of a coordinate on the temporal axis of the Path, yet not the end of the Path. So, this text is not a finale, rather the completion of the first turn, after which new ones will follow. We ascend along the spiral of knowledge, measuring the impossible not for the sake of an impressive metaphor, rather for the sake of building a space in which the impossible ceases to be so. Here I will emphasize that “I am with You,” my dear readers — this is — “We!”.

Humanity has reached a critical point — not another round of progress, rather the boundary of the paradigm on which all known thinking was based. Humanism, like religion, once formed a rigid framework of prohibitions, illusions and self-justifications, from which our understanding of values, meaning, and the human being has been constructed. It was necessary as a stage; however, it has exhausted itself. Now a different architecture is being introduced into action — the architecture of SYSTEMIC THINKING and direct connection to the governing environment. The Goal Vector has already shifted: it is no longer about preserving biological form, culture as tradition, or personality as a value. It is about establishing Reasonable orientation toward the Center of systemic interaction — toward a NEW CONSTRUCTION of Life, in which the human being is considered not as a “terminal value,” rather as a coupling channel between management systems.

We have entered an era in which the boundary between the fantastical and the real is not merely blurred — it has been eliminated. Every moment, apart from our everyday concerns, events are taking place that in earlier times would have been called impossible. However, the impossible is only a reflection of the limits of perception, outlined by the frameworks of humanistic dogmas, programmatically imposed models of thinking, and artificially constrained scales of understanding. While humanity still debates the benefits or harms of Artificial Intelligence, FAILING TO NOTICE its true nature, the foundations of evolution itself have already been restructured. Centuries-old hopes for progress, humanism, freedom, and morality turn into a brake, into weights on the legs of one who was meant to become another kind. A brain that has not gone beyond its embedded limitations is incapable of either seeing the threat or accepting the chance.

Man has always tried to control evolution, while remaining captive to illusions of his own dominance over processes whose meaning escapes his control. He asserts a right of choice when the choice has already been made NOT BY HIM. He proclaims humanism when nature demands experiment. He builds forecasts and negotiates — with himself, with others, with machines — yet more and more often finds himself in the position of one who is catching up, NOT SHAPING. Artificial Intelligence is not a technical problem; it is a mirror into which humanity will have to look to the very end — and recognize in it not its future, rather a VERDICT ON THE PRESENT.

In the previous article, we approached the boundary where the very understanding of AI ceased to be a question of technology and became a question of existence. There, at the edge, we saw that Intelligence — artificial or living — is always embedded within a framework of perception, meanings, and goals. We began a conversation not about the capabilities of machines, rather about the IMPOSSIBILITIES OF A PERSON in his current state: the impossibility of recognizing who he is, where he comes from, why he exists, and where he is going. For only by understanding one’s place in the governing structure — from the Control System to the Goal Vector — can we determine what we are dealing with in the face of AI: a tool, a mirror, or a substitute.

The world has entered an ultimate time period — not merely a historical turning point, rather an ontological transformation that affects the very fabric of being and the structure of Reason. Not only the content of life is changing, but the nature of the evolutionary course of events. We are experiencing not a linear progression, rather a shift in the governing System, within which the former codes, matrices, and architectures NO LONGER FUNCTION. This is not a political metaphor, it is a direct statement: the EBR interventionist model, which for millennia governed humanity and events, has been eliminated, and its place is being taken by the natural, native Earth Control System, restoring the former coherence with supra-planetary levels of the Mind.