Thought experiment regarding the endgame

[cantremember]

The way I see it, it's not 50.50, but 0% if you also factor in the time.

If you're the one plugging in the omnitool and sitting in the pilot seat, awaiting in anticipation for the Ark you will always lose.
Because your mind can't be transfered and the moment you sit down the other copy doesn't exist yet.

A new instance will appear on the Ark, who *thinks* he won.

So in a way, until the point where you wake up in the deep-pressure suit, the game is a flashback of Simon-3's memories.



It's a bit iffy because the moment you regain conciousness your mind can't know until you see. You'd go to sleep knowing you will wake up in the seat again (not Simon because he's stupid)
But the copy would also regain conciousness, with his last recollection, or memory rather, being put to sleep, expecting to 'lose' and being surprised he wakes up somewhere else.

While Simon expected the opposite everytime, expected to wake up somewhere else, the copy carrying on like normal and the original acting in frustration or confusion.


So my opinion is the coin toss only exists in the copy's point of view, and also because SOMA largely blurs what is happening currently, and what is a memory you play through that actually has already passed. Someone who remembers something recollects it differently than living/playing through it like in the game.

It's a bit freaky in a way, because Simon-3 can't control his past entities, and doesn't even exist until you leave Omicron, yet the game plays exactly how he would have experienced the course of his conciousness.