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Man considered with himself, for in a way, Man, mentally, was one. He consisted of a trillion, trillion, trillion ageless bodies, each in its place, each resting quiet and incorruptible, each cared for by perfect automatons, equally incorruptible, while the minds of all the bodies freely melted one into the other, indistinguishable.

Man has come to encompass humanity's collective consciousness. Individual minds no longer exist and instead, they have morphed into a uniform entity, each one indiscernible from the next. This alarming description may discomfort readers, prompting them to consider the potential negative implications of technology's progression.

"AC, is this the end? Can this chaos not be reversed into the Universe once more?"

In his final moments, Man wonders aloud to AC whether humanity and the universe can still be saved. Encompassing the collective consciousness of the entire human race, Man is unwilling to accept the universe's mortality and humanity's extinction. This query is the final question ever asked by humanity, first posed billions of years before by Adell and Lupov. 

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