Part 3. The Third Life
The Second System Era
By Anders K.S. Ahl

📖 CAPTAIN’S LOG — BART SMIRNOFF

In the late 1700s, a machine was invented. It looked like true AI — a thinking automaton that could play chess. They called it The Turk. But inside, hidden behind polished wood and illusion, was a human operator. A trick. A lie. A miracle of engineering… and misdirection.

So yes — fake it ‘til you make it, even in AI, worked for a while.

Until it was revealed as a scam.

I don’t really know why I’m writing this. Maybe for the archives. Maybe for the ghosts. Maybe just so I don’t forget.

When Rebecca — my beloved daughter — died… together with her sister and mother… under that trolley…

…I lost it.

Completely.

But that is another story. A longer one. A darker one.

This is about something else. About her, still — but through a different lens.

Rebecca was: Sharp as Athena.
Victorious as Nike (or me).
Warm as Aphrodite.
Then — Medusa (trolley).
Then the End — Hades.

When she was seven, she had this school science project. The kind where teachers expect papier-mâché and glitter. But not her.

She sat across from me, tiny hands folded like she was about to run a UN summit, and said:

“What came first, daddy — the hen or the egg?”

Then she smiled and said:

“Easy peasy.”

Her voice was soft. Almost sacred. Her IQ was beyond measure, yes — but that wasn’t what made her remarkable. It was her innocence. That deep, untarnished seeing that children have.

Sometimes I think kids aren’t really like us. They see things we’ve long tuned out.
When you’re six or seven, you make friends by saying “Wanna play?”
In my fifties, with a portfolio, patents, and pain? It’s hard to find anyone you truly trust.
Even if you’re a billionaire, real friends don’t come easy.

She didn’t need help. Not from me. Not from her mother. Not even from her sister, who usually did all the illustrations. This one — this project — she did alone.

She wrote this:

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@echo off
cls
echo ===============================================
echo   Hen Emergence Protocol: Version 0.01–1.48
echo ===============================================
echo.

for /L %%A in (1,1,148) do (
    call :PrintFormatted %%A
)
goto :eof

:PrintFormatted
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set /a int=%1

set "raw=00%int%"
set "str=!raw:~-3!"
set "whole=!str:~0,-2!"
set "decimal=!str:~-2!"
if "!whole!"=="" set "whole=0"

set "formatted=!whole!.!decimal!"

if %1 LSS 100 (
    echo !formatted! - Non Gallus gallus (A non-Hen laying an egg)
) else (
    echo !formatted! - Gallus gallus domesticus (A Hen is born from an egg)
)

endlocal
goto :eof

We printed it. She presented it. And she got an A+. Naturally.

Later, I reused her code.

I added some logic:

At 0.25, I wrote “AI”
At ¾, I labeled it “Generative AI”
At 1.00, I marked “AGI”

Aligned with Neville Goddard’s teachings. Call it seed visualization. Future scripting, I call it.
Or a 4D batch file in a 3D logical world that doesn’t understand:

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attrib yourgoal.txt +r

I created the file. I named it yourgoal.txt.
Then I locked it — not with fear, but with clarity.

That was my declaration.
To mark this one file — this one dream — as uneditable by the noise of doubt.
Read-only. Immutable. Mine.

It’s not magic. Olympians do it all the time — visualize the gold before they win it.
Why wouldn’t I use the same strategy?

As my soccer coach in Moscow once said when I hesitated at the goal:

“Don’t think so much, Bart. Just score.”

It didn’t have to be perfect. Just one toe was enough to win the game. And we won.

That’s when I learned:

Success isn’t always about power.Sometimes, it’s about precision.Semantic alignment. Inner clarity.I am + 0.1 = I win.

Back then, I didn’t understand systems theory. I didn’t know what “recursive feedback” was.
I just knew I was something.

“I am,” I told myself.
And when the goal felt far away, I’d add just a little nudge.
“I am + 0.1.”
Like using just one toe.

Now I know that’s first-life logic. Primitive even.

But it works.

It still works.

And when I run that batch file today, modified with AI, Generative AI, and AGI triggers…
I don’t just see a script.
I see Rebecca’s whisper.
I see the egg cracking.
I see the Hen being born.
I see myself — breaking open again.

“Gallus gallus domesticus… Emerged.”

And sometimes, that’s all you need.

One Crack.
One line of code.
One toe.
One Trojan Horse.
One egg.
Easter.
A simple wodden cross.
Jesus.
Achilles.
Blood.

And everything changes.

Mortality.

End of Chapter 21

THE SECOND SYSTEM ERA

A consciousness sci-fi journey into the architecture of Artificial Intelligence, the future of AGI, and
the deeper purpose behind the words that follow — the meaning of life, and the forgotten laws of divine order.
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The Second System Era

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It invites the reader not to believe, but to wonder.
— Anders K.S. Ahl