Just to be sure, I have run this set of propositions, the text so far, through TAMMY’s onboard Plausibility Verification Unit, and it has confirmed that my future self was telling the truth. The book, its existence, its creation, is the product of a causal loop. It comes from nowhere, has no unique origin, and yet its creator is me. “This book,” TAMMY says to me, “is a copy of a copy of a copy, and so on, forever, like that, I could keep going if you’d like.” It is a copy of something that doesn’t exist yet. It is a book copied from itself. Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with
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