The SOMA Theory, An Unfinished Script.

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the mockingbird machine looks and interacts with the people present in front of him, so he cannot be trapped in some internal labyrinth. he is in fact seeing the world through a heavily filtered and deluded machine-mind.

so we have two types of machines. one where the mind is directly imposed upon a humanoid entity that is able to perceive and interact with the world. and one where the conscious copy is projected into a completely false reality divorced from the real world.

the mockingbird machine began to cannibalize the other machines because he believed the other machines were food. in his machine-mind's eye, he must have saw other machines, metals, etc as food items like chicken, candy bars, etc. when he began dismantling himself, his internal logic may have simply interpreted that action as something else entirely.