Sophie tells Anka that Ulysses’ plan for a conscious AI ran through creating “a two-fold reality system, one constantly adapting to the other one, kinetically verifying hypothesis on the fly. Forming a whole, with no inside or outside. Just a continuous narrative flow.”
Anka has a heated discussion with Ted, who is convinced that Anka has grown too attached to Sophie’s story, and therefore won’t be able to correctly analyze it. They both mull over the meaning of the “kernel” Sophie wants Anka to take from the story.
Entering the simulation as Lisa, Sophie redos the same steps she had seen Lisa doing, including writing herself the message I NEED YOUR HELP, ONLY YOU CAN STOP THIS. As she stop to consider what she’s doing, her musings reach an spiralling apex as she understand that Lisa never existed, Sophie and Lisa being different aspects of the same person, and realizing, too late, that she’s trapped within the two-fold narrative system created by Ulysses, the one he envisioned as the only way for an AI to acquire conscious thought. As she comes to these harrowing conclusions, she decides to flee by getting into her car with Doron riding shotgun. Unbeknownst to her, however, that’s exactly what Ulysses had planned, and he rams her car in a snowy mountain road, flinging Doron through the car’s windshield, his body hitting the pavement, dead.
