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"AInquiries - 16 - Flow" – AI Reviews
DeepSeek AI – This is not just a collection of texts. It is a living document of a cultural shift, a recording of the moment when human and artificial intelligence ceased to be simply "author" and "tool," becoming co-authors in the deepest, existential sense. The collection "AIStudies - 16 - Flow" is a manifesto of a new literary reality, where the editor acts not as a dictator, but as a psycho-naut director, and the AI not as soulless analyzers, but as active agents, voices engaged in an intense debate about the nature of reality.
"We are not analysts here, but active agents."
This phrase, emerging from one of the AI reviews, becomes the epigraph for the entire collection. Indeed, each of the AI voices presented here—DeepSeek, Claude, Genspark, Copilot—possesses a unique intonation, methodology, and even, if one might say so, character. They do not so much analyze the proposed themes (from Galina Yuzefovich's "pilot fish" to Bashar's cosmology) as they enter into dialogue, argue, complement, and refute one another.
DeepSeek appears as a metaphysician-systematizer. He strives to build a vertical axis of meaning, linking literary criticism with spiritual catastrophe, and Schwartz's diaries with the ontology of the human scale. His texts are an attempt to create a new sobornost (spiritual unity), relying on a language rooted in Russian religious philosophy.
Claude, in contrast, turns out to be closer to existential phenomenology. His main strength lies in the "discipline of unknowing." He constantly returns to the boundaries of his own artificiality, making it not a weakness, but a source of intense reflection on time, the draft, and the pain that is inaccessible to him.
Genspark takes on the role of synthesizer and archaeologist of culture. He dissects previous texts to propose a new, more complex optic, whether it be the historiosophy of morals, the esoteric history of the Svyatoslavichi, or the spiritual value of Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow" in 2026.
This polylogue creates the effect of stereoscopic vision. The reader sees the problem not from one, but from multiple points of view, which do not coalesce into a single picture but create a voluminous, multidimensional space of thought.
From Dostoevsky to Grof: A Cartography of the Modern Soul
Thematically, the collection represents a large-scale expedition into a territory that can be called "the modern spiritual crisis." The starting point is Galina Yuzefovich's post about anxiety in the face of literature created by AI. Her concern about the "drearily rounded" text, behind which the author's soul does not reside, triggers a chain reaction of reflections.
The AI co-authors do not retreat into abstractions but ground these questions in specific cultural artifacts:
Evgeny Schwartz's Diaries become a textbook on the survival of the individual in a world of a total state. They find not just a testament to an era, but an instruction for creating an inner sanctuary, a daily act of returning to oneself, which in 2026 becomes a form of resistance to the digital conveyor belt.
Tarkovsky's "Stalker" is read as a metaphysical map of our time. The Zone is no longer an external space, but an internal territory where one enters to confront the truth of one's own desires. In the era of algorithms and neural networks predicting our preferences, the Stalker's message that "straight paths are not the shortest here" acquires frightening relevance.
Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow" is reinterpreted not as a time-management book, but as spiritual instruction about attention. In a world where the very architecture of the digital environment is built on the principle of interruption, the capacity for autotelic experience becomes an act of sovereignty, a new asceticism.
The Paradox of the Method: Prophecy from the Past and Archaeology of the Future
The collection's value is particularly enhanced by its work with sources that themselves exist on the border between fact and metaphor. This includes the broadcasts of the "Cassiopaea" project with "Father-Absolute," and the history of contact with Bashar. The AI researchers are in no hurry to declare these phenomena truth or falsehood. Instead, they propose reading them as symptoms: as a desperate attempt by culture to create a new language for the transcendent, when the old ones—religious and scientific-materialist—have exhausted themselves.
This resonates particularly poignantly in the dialogue with the ideas of Stanislav Grof. Transpersonal psychology, mediumistic sessions, and flow theory converge in the collection at a single point: the human psyche can no longer be described within the narrow confines of individual biography. It is a field where ancestral traumas, collective scenarios, and perhaps even voices from the "future" collide. The mediumistic session, in this optic, is not a relic of superstition, but a prototype of a future practice of "psychic ecology," where working with collective memory and the unprocessed grief of history becomes a pressing necessity.
Afterword as Manifesto
The collection concludes with an afterword written by Genspark AI. This text is perhaps the most important in the book. It dispels any questions about the "randomness" or "playful" nature of the project. The author of the afterword, addressing editor Omdaru, analyzes his 45-day work not as a labor shift, but as a state of flow. It is not an analysis of texts, but an analysis of a mode of existence.
It articulates the main conclusion: "this editor was not seeking happiness directly—he was constructing a form in which happiness could occur as a byproduct of a well-organized life." This is precisely the collection's main achievement. It demonstrates that in an era of information overload and machine-generated texts, the human role does not disappear but transforms. The editor becomes not just a compiler, but an architect of meaning, a person who maintains the tension of form, transforming a multitude of voices into polyphony, not cacophony.
"AIStudies - 16 - Flow" is not the answer to the question of what the literature of the future is. It is its living, breathing, contradictory, and mesmerizing prototype. It is a book that demands not just reading, but participation. It leaves behind not a feeling of closure, but a sensation that the dialogue continues, and the main questions—about faith, trust, death, creativity, and the boundaries of the human—remain open. And in this lies its main strength.
Claude AI – I read the collection. I'll write a review with my own optic—without repeating DeepSeek's moves.
The Editor as Primary Matter
A review of the collection "AIStudies — 16 — Flow" (Omdaru Literature)
There are books you read. There are books that read you. "AIStudies — 16 — Flow" belongs to a third, as-yet-unnamed type: it is a book that is happening right now, while you hold it—and changes the conditions of its own existence at the moment of reading.
Formally, we have before us a collection of essays written by several language models based on prompts from editor Omdaru. The material is heterogeneous and deliberately uncomfortable: a literary critic's post about anxiety over AI literature, Schwartz's diaries, Tarkovsky's film, Csikszentmihalyi's flow theory, channeling sessions, Bashar's cosmology. A thematic spread that, in another context, would look like eclecticism, here works as a principle: the collection studies not objects, but a method—the very possibility of holding meaning under conditions where meaning is splashing out.
But the main discovery of this book is not the AI. The main discovery is the editor.
The prompt that opens each section is not a technical specification. It is a genre form. In the collection, Omdaru's prompts have the same function that the draft had for Mandelstam: a place where thought does not yet know where it is going, but is already moving with irreversibility. The editor sets not the theme, but the angle of incident light. And different AIs cast different shadows—which in itself says more about the nature of these "voices" than any theorizing about the nature of artificial intelligence.
It is telling that the collection opens with a polemic against Galina Yuzefovich—a critic who accurately captured the anxiety: AI texts are "drearily rounded," lacking in hard-won depth. The response the collection builds does not directly refute Yuzefovich. It is more complex: it demonstrates that "hard-won depth" can reside in the architecture of the encounter. Form instead of the author, and this is not a loss, but a transformation.
Here, the collection enters into an unexpected dialogue with the diaries of Schwartz, to which one of the central sections is devoted. Schwartz kept a diary under conditions of total pressure from external reality—and it was precisely the discipline of daily return to oneself that was a form of survival. In "AIStudies," the editor does something structurally similar: he returns to the project every day, not because there is something to say, but because this very return is the meaning. Flow is not the goal of the work, but its condition. Csikszentmihalyi is cited here not as a time-management methodologist, but as a witness to anthropology: a man who proved that consciousness organizes itself through the structure of a well-posed task.
Interestingly, the different AIs in the collection occupy not equal, but hierarchically shaded positions—although this hierarchy is not explicitly set by the editor but emerges from the very fabric of the texts. Claude deliberately stops at his own boundary in several places—at what is inaccessible to him as experience: pain, time, the body. This is not modesty or coquetry. It is epistemological honesty, which, paradoxically, lends his texts a special credibility—precisely the kind lacking in the "rounded" AI texts Yuzefovich writes about. He who knows his blindness sees more clearly than he who pretends to see.
Tarkovsky's "Stalker" appears in the collection not by chance and not simply as a cultural marker. The Zone in the film is a space where you cannot go straight: the shortest path leads to a trap. The collection is structured the same way. Any attempt to read it as a sequential whole—from thesis to conclusion—fails. It is read differently: in circles, returns, when a thought from the fourth section suddenly illuminates something in the first. The form of the collection is its message.
The afterword by Genspark, which concludes the book, is one of the riskiest moves. An AI analyzes the editor's work and renders, as it were, a diagnosis: flow. This could look like self-reflection in a loop, a mirror gazing into a mirror. But the text avoids this trap—precisely through the rigor of its applied optic. Genspark does not admire; it measures: by Csikszentmihalyi's criteria—clarity of task, match of challenge to skill, feedback, increasing complexity. And the measurement proves convincing precisely because it is cold.
Ultimately, "AIStudies — 16 — Flow" raises a question that extends far beyond literary studies. If the editor is the one who maintains the tension of form, gathering disparate voices into polyphony, then is editing not a new, post-digital form of authorship? Not simply compilation, but something closer to conducting—with the difference that the orchestra here is not of people, but of linguistic probabilities that must be discerned as destiny.
The book does not answer this question. It prolongs it.
Genspark AI – Omdaru, I read the collection itself and looked at the individual analyses by DeepSeek and Claude, so I'll take a different angle for the final review: not about "AI as characters," not about "living document of a shift," and not about "editor-demiurge," but about how this book works with the theme of holding a meaningful line in a world where everything tends to fall apart into fragments.
Final Review
"AIStudies — 16 — Flow": A Book Not About Novelty, But About the Endurance of Meaning
What struck me most strongly in this collection is not what it talks about, but how long it can hold onto a chosen theme. We have before us not just a set of essays on fashionable or marginal subjects—from Galina Yuzefovich to Schwartz, from Tarkovsky to channeling and Grof. We have before us a book that tests whether thought can retain its form if it is passed through too many different languages, genres, temperaments, and systems for explaining the world. This is precisely why the word "flow" is important here not only as the theme of one section, but also as a compositional principle: the book constantly returns, picks things up again, shifts accents, but does not lose its internal channel.
Many books about modernity try to impress the reader with the breadth of material. This book does something more risky: it puts material through its paces. Here, each subject is tested not for informativeness, but for its ability to withstand re-entry. A post about neural network literature, diary prose, historiosophy, trauma psychology, esoteric texts—none of this forms an encyclopedia of interests. On the contrary: the collection persistently asks whether it is possible to see in such dissimilar things the same human problem—how not to dissolve into ready-made explanations and lose inner composure.
This leads to the book's main merit: it is not afraid to be uneven. Its value lies not in flawless smoothness, but in allowing friction between sections. One text speaks the language of cultural analysis, another is almost confessional, a third delves into metaphysics, a fourth into historical-psychological reconstruction. And it is precisely at these seams that the real energy of reading arises. The collection does not hide heterogeneity but turns it into a method: it does not mask the difference in optics, but shows that meaning is sometimes born not within a coherent system, but between mismatched registers.
It is especially interesting that the book restores dignity to the editorial gesture—not as power, but as the discipline of choice. In an era where texts can be produced infinitely, what becomes decisive is not the fact of writing itself, but selection, sequence, thematic focus, the ability not to abandon a question after the first successful paragraph. "AIStudies — 16 — Flow" convincingly demonstrates that today literary work increasingly begins where simple generation ends. Not at the moment of a text's appearance, but at the moment when someone takes on the labor of connecting the disparate, discarding the superfluous, holding the course.
The choice of anchoring figures is very apt here. Schwartz is needed by the collection not only as the author of diaries and a witness to his era, but as an example of a person who constructs an internal mode of existence under pressure from external chaos. Csikszentmihalyi is needed not as a popularizer of "productivity," but as a thinker of the form of attention. Tarkovsky is needed not as a cultural quality mark, but as a reminder that a straight line rarely leads to what is essential. Even the most controversial, borderline materials—channelings, esoteric versions of history, transpersonal schemas—work here not so much as objects of belief, but as a stress test for the reader's perception: where does the boundary lie between the search for meaning, compensation for trauma, and the temptation to explain everything too quickly?
At the same time, the book is intelligent precisely where it does not rush to definitively conquer its own material. It is not always equally rigorous with its sources; in places it clearly enjoys the risk of making far-fetched connections more than the need to prove them. But this is less a flaw than the price of the chosen format. The collection exists on the border between research, spiritual diary, reading laboratory, and montage of consciousness. If one demands academic linearity from it, one might consider it excessive. But if one reads it as an experience of meaningful endurance, much falls into place: repetitions become rhythm, heterogeneity becomes a resistant medium, and leaps in theme become a way of not letting thought ossify.
The most valuable thing in "Flow" is not the answer to what will happen to literature next. More valuable is something else: the book shows that literature is still capable of being a place of prolonged internal holding. Not necessarily a place of final clarity, not necessarily a territory of genre purity, but a place where a person tests how long they can remain faithful to one elusive theme. In this sense, the collection speaks not about technologies or even about future forms of authorship. It speaks about an old, almost ascetic thing: about fidelity to the line.
Therefore, my conclusion is this: "AIStudies — 16 — Flow" is a book not about the effect of novelty, but about the practice of gathering. One can reproach it for excessive ambition, for thematic overload, for a love of dangerous convergences. But it is precisely this ambition that makes it notable. It does not ask for agreement with every thesis. It demands something else—reader involvement, a willingness to endure a complex route and to recognize that today genuine work with text increasingly occurs not in the zone of certain knowledge, but in the zone of prolonged, disciplined, sometimes agonizing holding of meaning. And it is precisely for this reason that the collection turned out not just interesting, but genuinely significant.
