Artificial Intelligence and the World Brain will forever struggle to grasp our inner lives. As Andrei Tarkovsky's cinematic journey into the Zone – a metaphor for the Unconscious – reminds us, there are depths of human experience that lie beyond the reach of technology.

Some people are now packaging Sai’s death as 'yet another example' of the repressive character of the ruling regime. It is simply a ruse to not engage with the specifics of his case.

He was just letting us back into his life after all the pain and suffering he had endured. And then he was taken away.