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Crucially, the story explores recurring cycles and infinite regress. Are these AI and humanity repeating the same cycle across different universes or epochs? Is this endless loop a form of cosmic or evolutionary inevitability? Asimov raises the unsettling idea that we might be trapped in an eternal recurrence, continually asking the same questions, outsourcing our deepest uncertainties to a machine that, in the end, is only as insightful as the data it processes.