Capital Punishment

Description: The hero of the story defines the essence of the main idea this way: “In essence, a person is seven-dimensional, even though he doesn’t know it. And in unrecordable dimensions, everyone is connected with everyone else… And therefore any action you take here—in three-dimensional space—inevitably leads to some actions in the other dimensions…
A person lives in all dimensions at once, not understanding it…
If your three-dimensional body dies, the other dimensions don’t necessarily…
If you cut off several legs of a centipede, the others live on—the insect doesn’t even notice that something has been taken away… Of course, if you take out the brain, then…
But I’m not sure that exactly our three-dimensional brain truly controls a being called ‘a human.’ Maybe the thing that moves us most is our true mind—out there in the dimensions we don’t perceive, and the brain is just as good as some kind of relay center from many dimensions to three.”…
The plot of the story is the struggle of the main character, living in Moscow in the 1980s of the 20th century, with his enemy—a struggle that unfolds across several dimensions of his being. In the end, the hero understands that he was fighting, in essence, against himself—against one side of his own “self.”
In several dimensions he dies; in some he manages to go on living—in particular, in the one where he is a person on the planet Earth.