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[lumons]

kind of toying around with the theory that mdr is sorting out their own experiences and memories to create the rooms that gemma is going into. gemma’s rooms happen to be personal in some ways to her (the thank you cards) because mark is the one refining for her rooms. 

when mark asks about the ashes, reghabi tells him that lumon is connected with the coroners and medical examiners and we already know lumon has such a deep place within society given that they hosted the blood drive where mark and gemma met, they owned the clinic where they went for fertility care, and there’s the government official with his severed wife and the baby camp. lumon is everywhere and they’re always listening and they’re always trying to pull the strings. it’s possible that when gemma got into her accident, lumon saved her and part of this was healing her and treating her until she was fully better until they could turn around and say actually you’re not fully better yet and we need to run tests on you. lumon is in a position of power as the rescuers and saviors of her life to convince her and keep her in this place as a condition and price of her life saving treatment. 

and gemma’s probably far from the only one that lumon has done this to. they’re probably getting more test subjects through these horrific accidents and near death experiences and just repeating this research with them. when mark is first shown petey’s map one area notably is the people who live there/never leave. this sort of tells us that gemma is far from the only one and also why would she be the only one when there’s also the work of helly, irving, and dylan to consider, and of course all the other mdr departments out there in other lumon offices. 

this theory would help explain the work the other refiners are doing and make the explanation of what lumon is up to less centered specifically mark and gemma, and instead make mark and gemma just a tragic coincidence of this whole controlling corporate giant.

as to what they’re doing this for i think there’s so many possibilities but i have to assume, as is the name, mthat they’re refining the severance chips and working towards making them better and possibly commercializing them to offer people an escape from various life experiences that might be distressing or unwanted and they need the various experience of humans to do that and therefore the mdr teams are just sorting their different fears and joys and other emotions to essentially test gemma and the others like her with 

[winepresswrath]

also i'm still so curious about what reintegrations looks like for people who are at odds with their other selves we have the obvious candidate (helly can go to heaven but can hellyna? also they want each other dead) but even something like irv v. irving is so wild. can irving look at irv's naïveté with affection and respect? can dylan g. empathize with outie dylan's failure to make the most out of his embarrassment of riches? despising yourself being appalled and confused by your own choices hating your own weakness alienation of the self let's gooooo.

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[pickingupthepunchlines]

2x07 feels like severance’s thesis statement. all of mdr’s hijinks and journeys, all of the goats and the paintings, they exist as ameliorations of the beating heart of the show: there are people who can and will stop at nothing to make their own lives just a tiny bit less uncomfortable. they have the resources to create an underclass in their own bodies, and they do not care about the consequences.

mark has been consumed with grief (& likely targeted by lumon), and, at first, seems to view severance as a gift to his innie: a version of himself with the grief removed. dylan clearly does this for financial reasons — he’s got kids to feed. at the end of the day, they (and irv, and presumably most of the severed workers) are already laborers, already under the boot of capitalists (yes, professors count. they generate value for institutions over which they have little to no say).

in s1, this theme, the blatant disregard of capital for anyone, even the capitalists themselves, is shown via helly and gabby. helena allows helly to be tortured, driven to the point of suicide. when we all saw devon meet gabrielle after she’d given birth, we all thought, “what a horrible thing to do; severing yourself during labor. how awful it must be for gabby, to live only during those painful moments.” and then other stuff happened, and our collective focus drifted.

we cannot look away from 2x07. gemma and her various innies are tortured in the name of research & development. the rooms are full of labor that one cannot outsource: dentist appointments, physical travel, going to the gym (gemma briefly wears gym clothes & we see mauer in a coach’s outfit). you can hire someone to do your taxes or move your belongings or even inflict the kind of cruelty that milchick, cobel, and mauer do every day. an eagan or a rich state senator can eliminate almost all discomfort and unpleasantness from their daily life. almost. because the answer to all of their problems thus far has been the subjugation of others, the building of an increasingly powerless underclass, this is the only solution they can see. they have no interest in developing dental tools that are less painful, workouts that are less laborious, ergonomic pens that write quicker and cause fewer cramps. why would they, when they can just outsource the labor to another self? they don’t care about the costs — not the fact that they are creating another person who will experience only the things they want so desperately to avoid, not the fact that it’s literal brain surgery, not even the fact that severance leaves their bodies open to exploitation by basically anyone (see helly’s speech & dr. mauer’s creepy vibes) — they just don’t want to have to do anything they don’t want to do

if this is how people are willing to treat themselves, their own bodies, the show asks, how will they treat you?

[1nkwe4ver]

So here’s the theory. I think I’ve got it

I still think what Lumon is doing is bigger than giving rich people the chance to sever off their bad experiences. And I think Helena is actually a big hint to understanding whats going on with Gemma.

They act like Cold Harbor is going to be a religious revelation to the world, and I don’t think it’s just “eliminate all your troubles with Severance!” Like okay so if you’re not immediately existentially horrified by it, that might sound kinda cool, but what’s the big miraculous reveal they keep referencing with Cold Harbor? That will change the world? Make everyone join the cult of Kier? Why all the goddamned secrecy and hiding Gemma underground? Obviously people already know about severance and about using it for your inconveniences, people are already doing it. People are severing off worker bees for their 9-5. Rich people are using it to give birth.

So I have a theory of how this is bigger than that

First of all, some of the questions they asked Gemma. I felt like they were checking on her mental functions and memory as herself, as an Outie. “Where did you go?” And “Would you be more afraid of drowning or suffocating?”before she even starts her rooms for the day.

The next key I think is in things like MDR. They are finding the scary numbers and refining them into the boxes labeled with tempers(if that’s not what they’re labeled with it’s something like that). Mark’s first file matched the name of Gemma’s Christmas Thank You Note room, I think. Implying his finishing that file had something to do with the formation of that room. The room resembles the way one of their actual Christmases was set up, so I feel it’s implied they were drawing from his memories. Possibly one where they were feeling crappy because of all their failing to get Gemma pregnant.

Okay. So even if you accept that Lumon categorizes all bad feelings into the “tempers”, why does Lumon need this to make a room for Gemma’s Innie to experience this temper? Why bother personalizing it to Outie Gemma’s experiences in such a weirdly intimate way? After all, Innies aren’t supposed to have that kinda connection to their Outies.

And even beyond Mark, what is the rest of MDR doing? Why have them craft these weirdly personalized rooms to isolate tempers so intensely? If all they wanted was to let Innies do the dirty work for the Outies, surely they could come up with rooms doing the basic premises for themselves- eternal dentist offices and chores.

Also, why fucking plane crashes and Thank You Notes? Yes, Gemma hates thank you notes, but that Innie didnt hate thank you notes until she was subjected to that room over and over. You can’t tell me they’re going to sever so many innies into the average brain that someone is going to have one set aside to turn on just in case a plane crashes. Irl, a persons going to want to call their family if they have the service. They’re going to want to experience their last moments in case they die. They can’t trust the Innie to actually behave like a person on a real life plane rather than a simulated one. I also highly doubt someone will really get another brain surgery just to do a petty thing like Thank you notes. Will they delegate it? Sure. But even if I’m buying into the system of brain slaves thing, I’m not going to schedule the time and take the risks to have another severance done. If im that rich and petty I’m sure I have a personal assistant doing that shit anyway.

So how does Helena Eagan shed some light on this?

Remember after Irving nearly killed her, she speaks with Drummond. They say something along the lines of, doctors say her tempers will rebalance promptly. But if she’s still feeling poorly they can treat her. She insists immediately and firmly that she is fine.

I know it’s implied Helena wasn’t severed until she got her job on the severed floor. So what if that’s the point of severance?

Stay with me here. Kier has to be the core of whatever’s going to be revealed with Cold Harbor and Gemma. The beginning. They’re crediting everything to him. Praise Kier. His work will finally be realized and everyone will rejoice. But Helena has confirmed that Jame is the one to come up with the severance procedure.

So what did Kier do? He identified the tempers, for one. What does Lumon actually do with the tempers? All we’ve heard mentioned is people getting them in balance, or out of balance.

Helena’s situation implies two things-

One- followers of Kier approach larger medical issues, physical and mental, with doctors who rebalance their tempers as opposed to other remedies.

Two- Even Helena fucking Eagan isn’t really willing to undergo whatever the fuck you have to do to get your tempers back in balance under a doctor’s supervision.

So my theory is- Kier’s original method of balancing the tempers, the basis of Lumon’s ideology, is some variation of what they’re doing to Gemma, traditionally without severance. Obviously, because severance didn’t exist till a few years ago.

My theory is that they believe every illness/lack of wellness is an imbalance of the tempers. More often than not, a lower amount of one.

To raise this temper, they dig into you psychologically, maybe with normal therapy or something, take something that stimulates a certain “temper” and make you experience it over and over, to the point of torture. In their view, this ultimately realigns the temper and once youre done, you recompartmentalize the Dieter in you that’s experiencing that shit, and you’re well again.

The issue was, well- patients either left their cult or lost their minds. Kier died and I’m sure his personality, which had probably drawn and kept many in, lost many followers with it.

So the Eagans and their remaining followers have to accept that things aren’t going right. They have to change their approach. Make things a business to keep their power and influence, and back off from the things that make them look like wackjobs in the public eye.

I mean, obviously, Kier could never have been wrong, he was right. The problem is the world. The masses cannot handle his wisdom for some reason. We have to approach this differently.

So they need to do two things to make Kier’s word acceptable to the mainstream, really. They need to prove, as they believe, that balancing the tempers can heal pretty much any fucking thing under the sun. And secondly- they need to make a way to make the process usable on the masses. Something an average person could make it through without losing their mind.

In comes Jame Eagan.

He has the best idea. Kier always compartmentalized his time “balancing his tempers.” He put it all on Dieter(if Dieter was a real brother, excuse me, but I’m going with the ‘he was a metaphor’ interpretation for this. If you disagree, just take my references to Dieter to be personified portions of yourself you’ve compartmentalized to deal with traumatic situations). But Kier was pure. He was superior. The average person may need help to do that! Let’s section off a portion of their memories, so they don’t have to remember going through treatment! We create these people’s Dieter’s for them, because as long as the tempers in their body are balanced, they will experience the healing effects of Kier’s treatments. So what if those versions of them are in continuous loops of torture? Nobody cares about the states of those minds. Those are Dieters. Those aren’t real people. And then the real people get to be whole again!

Okay, but how do we convince the masses that this isn’t crazy bullshit? We need a real, solid example of how surreally magical and intense Kier’s treatment can be.

Well, the doctor says- with such strong mental barriers as this procedure will give us, I believe we could rebalance the tempers in anyone. Could do anything.

You know what it could do? We could raise the dead.

So- I think Gemma did die. Physically. I think they took her corpse, which Mark identified early on, and quickly swapped it out for them to bury a different one.

Then they used crazy technology to resuscitate her. I think she was on the edge of death and miserable and a shell of herself. Probably hardly functioning. Hardly reacting to the questions they asked. Who knows what her mind and body were like when she was recovered. She was her, but if she’d been allowed in a normal hospital, she would have long been pronounced dead, and if they somehow resuscitated her as Lumon originally did, so late, no one would have let her live how they resuscitated her to be. Gemma being brought back to herself as we’ve seen her would be a miracle.

That’s why they need MDR to unconsciously choose what they will use for the formation of the rooms. They are making sure the rooms will spike the sharpest reactions of her tempers possible. It is necessary to have a raw, unconscious human response dictate this. It is helpful to draw from Mark’s memories because they’re not trying to test Gemma’s Innies ability to withstand dealing with the rooms, they’re trying to restore Gemma’s tempers to the levels they were at before her death. Other people’s experiences can work for some general things, like anxiety at the dentist office, but it makes sense that Mark is so essential here in that context. He is the refiner that can’t be fired because to really get Gemma back to Gemma, we need situations that will stimulate her from the life they shared. They have a general idea of where her old tempers were, I think because they measure it in the blood. And they had a lot of access to Gemma medically before her accident. She went to Lumon blood drives. She went to the Lumon fertility treatment, where that doctor who worked on this hell floor was seen in the background. I’m guessing they believe they have an idea of her “tempers” pre-death because of that.

This also lends itself to a late stage Uno reverse from Cobel or Helena, trying to get Mark on their side. Hell, it might late stage be the only reason Mark finishes the goddamned Cold Harbor file.

Because we’ve seen how tortured Gemma is right now, so in our heads, right now, it seems like nothing could make us sympathize with these crazy evil folks. Makes us hate Lumon drones we’d come to like, like Milchik and Cobel and Helena afresh. But what if Gemma really was dead before all this? What if she really was a barely breathing corpse when they started this work on her? It wasn’t their right to take her body, but now she is back and she is her

If you hear, Milchik, Cobel, and them really are so devoted to this company because they’re working on bringing people to perfect health with a health framework that is so superior it can bring people back from death, you want to say that they’re deranged and wrong, but ignoring whatever got them into the company in the first place, what about what they’ve potentially seen with Gemma? Maybe it’s still wrong to be so cruel, but if you’ve really seen this company bring someone back from death to essentially herself, wouldn’t that inspire your devotion? Wouldn’t you think you should probably toughen up as opposed to getting out? Wouldn’t you be a little reverent? Wouldn’t you have committed to breaking society’s rules already? And if you wouldn’t be, can’t you imagine someone else being so? Like that is wild. Cobel has been in this company since she was a child and now she’s literally a part of them doing one of the most miraculous things anyone ever said she was crazy to believe they could do.

This also puts Cobel’s obsession with Mark and his family into perspective, because it’s not just screening things for a sign he might get away, keeping control of the situation, a weird sense that she’s entitled to be close to him- it was also originally probably a recommended route to getting more info on Gemma. How many times did Selvig bring cookies for Mark and gently coax him until he told her stories about Gemma? How many pictures did she pull up and ask questions about? How many little pieces of furniture, like the candle, did she steal, to help personalize Gemma’s experiences further? How much info did she get from getting to know Ricken and Devon?

Also, another thing about Helena, which is just occurring to me as I write this- I’m thinking back to early season 1. When we still don’t know her full identity, but we see her side of her first day at Lumon.

I originally attributed this to them being unsure what they were going to do so early on, but I’ll say, Helena seems genuinely happy and pleased when we see her side on the outside of her first day severed.

Nowadays, when we see her in the outside, she’s cold and reserved, in large part I think because the experience has gone so wrong. And I think people have just written off that early episode as just them keeping her behavior vague- she’s being polite, going through the motions. Based on her behavior now, we might think she never wanted to be severed in the first place, was always forced.

But I think of like, when they show her smiling and talking about it, almost nerding out while they’re doing the procedure. Nervous, but genuinely a bit excited. And what is there to be excited about? You’re not gonna remember what goes on. I don’t take anything she said for the videos at that party in the finale as real.

But this theory, about the Kier cult and balancing tempers for health purposes? I think that really makes it make sense.

Helena was raised in all this, and she seems to scoff at some parts of it. I’d say it’s implied on some level, she knows it’s bullshit. She is stressed and firmly denies she needs to go to the tempers balancing doctor after Irving tries to drown her. She starts giggling at the dramatic story about Kier masturbating. It very much seems like she doesn’t drink her own Kool Aid.

So, if shes really just a business mind in all this, not a real spiritual believer, I think she’s excited to be severed because she’s stuck in this system. Every time something in her life happens to her- she gets hurt, she gets attacked, she undergoes a traumatic experience- she gets sent into the waking nightmare of the doctors who dig into your psyche and rebalance your tempers. What they’re doing to Gemma, without Severance. Torture. She’s an Eagan, it’s not supposed to bother her, she of all people is supposed to be superior, but she fucking hates it with all of her being.

So she is excited to be severed because it represents finally not having to fucking deal with that.

She is ready and willing because before Helly, she saw severance as her way out of hell. Her way to finally create a Dieter she didn’t have to deal with. To not experience them carefully crafting experiences to torture her in the name of “rebalancing her tempers.” Severance was finally going to let her compartmentalize all the shit she couldn’t stand about being an Eagan and focus on being herself. Everything she’d been taught about it said she didn’t need to worry about Innies, they weren’t people.

But then she takes the severed job- and Helly keeps trying to run out the floor. She threatens to cut off Helena’s fingers. Helena is supposed to walk in the elevator and come out never knowing more than an echo of Helly’s pain- and one day she walks in the elevator, and the next moment she’s being hanged.

So her hopeful little smiles before going in are just gone. She still feels trapped. She never wants Helly triggered again, I highly doubt she wants to create a system of others. But of course, she’s still an Eagan, and she has to still finish the realization of Kier’s wishes, and they still have a woman nearly brought back to life in their sub-basement. And they still want Helena Eagan’s severance as a publicity stunt.

So yeah. I think we’re going to find that Gemma DID die in that car accident, and was brought back to life using an extreme combination of Kiers principles and balancing of the tempers, a process which she can only handle mentally because the parts of her dealing with the individual bits of the torture are severed off.

Mark’s contributions in unconsciously creating the rooms are essential because they need to make sure her tempers are balanced back to the way Gemma originally had them. I’m not sure exactly what the Cold Harbor file is, but once the room is done and used, Gemma will be “completely” brought back. And Lumon intends to use this as proof to the world that the Rebalancing of the Tempers is the cure for everything, as Kier always said.

[warningsine]

Gemma's reactions were being recorded, digitized and turned into those green numbers Mark and the others in the MDR department sorted through.

Every room that Gemma has been through is a project the MDR team has worked on and finished, e.g., Siena, Allentown etc.

This is why Mark, Dylan and Irving explained to Helly (season 1) that it'd take time for her to see how scary the numbers were. (Think of Gemma getting tortured in the dentist and the airplane simulation rooms.) And then she did.

Mark was/is a good employee for a reason; the higher the emotions, the quicker the refinement went. They were using his work to further torture his wife.

With every completed project, Lumon understood their technology a little better.

My "hm, I'm getting something wrong here, I need to reconsider and recalibrate" is that the team is working on Cold Harbor (and Lumon is on the verge of a breakthrough with that one), but Gemma hasn't been inside that room yet. Or so she says.

Mark: "The work is mysterious and important."

Helly: "The work is bullshit!"

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[yekokataa]

so that dentist whistling a song from the Outside means he's not severed, right? and if that theory is right that he's burt's husband... maybe he was worried because he knew that the innies really did have a thing going on, he might have known exactly who irving was when he showed up banging on his door

here's the song he was whistling

[meret118]

Woe's Hollow:

I watched the previous episode again before the new one, and was struck by two things. The first, is Dieter"s eye coming out. It reminded of the Bible verse about, "If your right eye offends you, pluck it out." If Dieter is actually Keir's shadow self, then Keir killed that part of himself by plucking it out.

The second was red-headed Woe sitting where Helly would normally sit in relation to Irving during his dream.

I still think the night gardener story is stupid. Did Helena do it on purpose so she wouldn't have to keep pretending to be an innie? It makes no sense to me that a company so detailed oriented they already removed Irving's image from the photos by the time the innies return to work wouldn't have anticipated their questions, and come up with a better story for her.

Trojan's Horse:

Severance is back, baby! Apparently what I needed was Helly. :) The pacing was a lot better this episode IMO too. It shouldn't take this long for the show to hit it's stride in season 2 though. The season is half over.

Those looked like dental tools, and the whistling man had an old fashioned dentist's smock on. It made me think of the dental torture in Marathon Man. Do they put tracking devices in teeth? Are they changing people's teeth so dental records can't be used to identify them?

What the hell is Mark drinking? Is that part of the reintegration?

Helly has her fists clenched when elevator open. She's prepared to fight immediately.

I posted about the Grakappen here.

They ate Irving's head - there was a big piece of it severed. Dylan was eating his ear though, because he didn't listen to Irving's suspicions about Helly.

I couldn't find a picture of it, but I call those type of mug handles finger traps. Two holes, innie and outie.

Milchek wanting validation on his reaction to the white bullshit from Natalie was painful and sad. I think she wants to agree, but is afraid to.

I can't tell if he actually drank the cool aid, and is now starting to see the light, or if he just pretended to in order to get the job, and is finally starting to have qualms now that it's affecting him personally more.

I was starting to think Helena was changing too until she referred to the innies as animals. I can see why she would be afraid to return, but the word choice was telling to me, even if she doesn't believe the Kier mythology.

"Here is the lunch menu." Ha!

"Uses too many big words," is a microagression against an educated black man. Is it because it makes the white man uncomfortable, and they want him to "sound black" by which they mean uneducated? (If he did use AAVE, they would penalize him for that too.) Or it a complaint by a young teen because the words are "big" to her? Or both?

". . . and to treat as what they really are." Slaves? It's interesting that they chose a black man as an outie supervisor given the history of experimentation on black people.

Mark, Helly and Dylan are now a work threesome, while Burt and his husband seem to be interested with Irving. I didn't know Burt was fired. I thought he had been retired for his age. I thought he said he was retiring in that video. Or maybe he was embarrassed, and just said it was retirement rather than "erotic entanglement."

Fields is a very unusual name. I wonder what the significance is.

Natalie is black and a woman, and the only outie I remember being frequently referred to as her first name, like an innie.

Miss Huang is very into the corporate mentality. There's a reason cults go after young people. I hope they eventually explain her presence. Her being there still feels like something weird for the sake of being weird at this point.

So much for Rickon's ideals. I so want Devon to leave him! The most improbable thing in the show to me isn't the severance chip. It's her being married to him. He can't even use the term correctly - Trojan Horse, not Trojan's Horse. The horse was from the Greeks and destroyed the Trojans,

Helena pretending to Helly was a Trojan Horse. Outie Mark pretending to be Mark R would be the Trojan's horse.

[killthefuckinglights]

now I understand why irving seemingly hates the exports floor. I hate the dentist, too 😔

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[thefaultinoursprinkles]

ok ok theories below the cut

1. Ms, huang is mark and me Casey’s baby (maybe she was pregnant when the crash happened?)

2. The crash didn’t happen and was an attempt to fake her death to get mark to join possibly

3. Fucked up that they also walled off memories about his wife (presumably at his request) that took the difficult/painful/sad moments out of his memory, just like lumon is trying to remove the difficult/painful/sad moments from life by thrusting them off onto an anonymous underclass

4. On going theory that they are clones!!! I think ms Casey and Ms Huang (esp if theory 1 is right) actually were dead but were brought back

5. I love how the rooms are clearly r&d or some form of qa testing. You can see the marketing slogans “never go to the dentist again!” “Never write thank you notes again!” “With severance you can experience only the good parts of life”!

6. Presumably they’re also testing how many times a person can be severed. There’s at least 20 rooms and since none of her memories carry over between severed innies or her outie, I think that implies each room activates its own innie, meaning there’s at least 21 versions of herself in there.

7. I think the final room (cold harbor) will be an emergency alternative to suicide (like the airplane crash innie. Her whole life was just airplanes and crashing in the airplane) where they can switch over to an innie to avoid the pain of dying without “lulling themselves”.

8. So cold harbor, I think, will be her “actual” memories and they are testing how well the severance will hold if they expose her innie to all her own memories

9. Oh! Also the macro data— since they sequestered some of mark’s memories, I think that the innies are processing their own memories and moving the “bad” ones to behind the severed wall to make the perfect employee

10. This ties in with 5 as well, but the marketing they could do to corporations of this works would be insane. Amazon would jump at the chance to have employees who can preform perfectly and efficiently without all the messy humanity. And they can all pay lumon to install a severed floor and manage the innies $$$

11. That’s why I think the numbers “feel” a certain way— they’re reading their encoded memories and it is triggering the same response that we saw from Gemma when the nurse asked if she would be more scared to suffocate or drown.

12. Continuing that line of thought it seems like no matter how “complete” their severance is, there is some emotional bleed through. We’ve already seen that with our crew obviously (mark feeling hollow and sad but not knowing why, Dylan loving his wife without knowing her, irv’s art, jelly’s resentment at her position in the family) but we see empirical evidence in the ekg or whatever they give Ms Casey when they ask that question

13. Noticed that the memories mark has of Ms Casey are interspersed with those of Gemma it leads me to believe his reintegration is proceeding well— if he’s processing his own memories behind the severance wall, it makes sense those would fall “between” his meetings with Ms Casey as he’d been refining the macro data in between sessions

14. Wondering if the implant is done in the hippocampus to intercept the conversion of short term memory to long term memory, which typically happens during sleep. Since the innies never sleep they never move the memories out of the hippocampus into long term storage. Also could be why the freaky Edmund Fitzgerald doctor is asking the questions he does (do you remember the room? The number of rooms you were in? Do you remember why x happened?) to determine if her memories as being encoded properly. She can remember the moment she entered the room after coming out, but nothing in between, if those memories get stored in the implant (the visual transition from marks head to brain to implant to server makes me think this is the case) rather than moved into long term storage, your “real” self would not have any type of memories from that time— they wouldn’t be in the brain. At the same time though, memories isn’t JUST stored in the hippocampus or even the brain. The currently accepted hypothesis is that most brain functions including memory conform to the whole brain model, ie that brain functions utilize connections outside of the areas they originate and includes the entire nervous system.

So if their implant only handles what’s in the hippocampus, the memories stored in emotions in the amygdala or the peripheral nervous system could still effect your function

Whatever number we’re on.

Lumon fertility clinic. I wonder if it’s some type of Evil situation where they’re like implanting demon (innie clone?) babies into unsuspecting women struggling w fertility

[kakashihasibs]

Oh man oh shit oh fuck Feilds is the man with the dentist tools. :O Irving get out of there bud! Ur in danger 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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