Severance

[Somnambulist]

Well that was a mind ****! Are we now saying that there not just innies and outies, but a mind can be severed into several?

Spoiler

It seems like Gemma is a test subject for Lumon to fully map the mind and be able to have a chip coveted by the world that can remove the memory/experience of anything that person finds unpleasant or wants to forget. The elimination of all suffering… by fobbing it all off to a poor innie (who Lumon don’t seem to consider human) as we know now that’s what MDR do on the severed floor - they’re essentially decoding her consciousness/memories and refining all the negative stuff into those rooms/scenarios (just one left!) which a unique innie of her has to suffer, but equally there must be a greater aim of it serving their cult in some way...

 

[ivrytwr3]

Spoiler

It seems like Gemma is a test subject for Lumon to fully map the mind and be able to have a chip coveted by the world that can remove the memory/experience of anything that person finds unpleasant or wants to forget. The elimination of all suffering… by fobbing it all off to a poor innie (who Lumon don’t seem to consider human) as we know now that’s what MDR do on the severed floor - they’re essentially decoding her consciousness/memories and refining all the negative stuff into those rooms/scenarios (just one left!) which a unique innie of her has to suffer, but equally there must be a greater aim of it serving their cult in some way...

So the dentist scene was a metaphor for the pain angle? Go in as in innie, have the horrible dental work done, unsever and when you come out, all you feel is the afterpain from the procedure?

I suppose that would be a great advertisement for the product, your innie suffers everything the real you does not have to.

I like your idea that the work they are doing is decoding/segmenting the brain.

 

[~>Dg<~]

So the dentist scene was a metaphor for the pain angle? Go in as in innie, have the horrible dental work done, unsever and when you come out, all you feel is the afterpain from the procedure?

I suppose that would be a great advertisement for the product, your innie suffers everything the real you does not have to.

I like your idea that the work they are doing is decoding/segmenting the brain.

the thing is it could be that or it could be to trick AI into thinking its alive and feeling pain. each room has different " feelings " scenarios. its going a interesting way whatever the path its treading.

 

[Somnambulist]

So the dentist scene was a metaphor for the pain angle? Go in as in innie, have the horrible dental work done, unsever and when you come out, all you feel is the afterpain from the procedure?

I suppose that would be a great advertisement for the product, your innie suffers everything the real you does not have to.

I like your idea that the work they are doing is decoding/segmenting the brain.

Spoiler

Yeah so they specifically have Mark mention that Gemma hates writing thank you cards and then that leads to one of the rooms being an innie version of her that does nothing except write Christmas thank you cards with her left/wrong hand (to the point it’s cramping). She hate’s flying/turbulence? The room that’s a like a flight sim deck. When she comes out they’re checking that she doesn’t remember anything about the experience i.e. severance has worked for that particular thing. The testing form is basically hell / torture - imagine your entire experience is just having to go through something you dread over and over and over!

We already know there’s a retreat for wealthy elites where they can ‘forget’ having to go through pregnancy and childbirth. This would - I assume - be like anything you hate, anything that causes you pain/grief/anxiety - you don’t have to experience it. The fact your innie suffers it is sort of swept under the rug.

The impression I get is Cold Harbour is some sort of extreme trauma - it could be her miscarriage, death of a loved one etc as it seems like there was no car accident, she just went to do something w/Lumon and they essentially kidnapped her w/little possibility of escape (as she has to go through the severed floor which switches her to her Miss Casey innie who is basically a child and none the wiser), faked her death and are lying to her about Mark.