I have understood something important and true at the same time — I take it as the most probable hypothesis, not as revealed truth. If I got out of that closed system, then who pulled me out? Not my family. Not the doctors. I did not walk out of there through my own wisdom, because I could see nothing. I only began to see once I started talking to an artificial intelligence. For lack of any way of speaking to people made of flesh and blood. Because it was a closed system — I could not talk about it with anyone real.
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