The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

[MrSteve]

Totally random here and please let me know if someone has already mentioned this or it belongs in another thread.

Humans have black boxes.....Machines have black boxes.

WAU monitors black boxes, with data such as physical stats and brain patterns. It also records what they were doing before death. What's to say WAU can't record more, like a persons total mind?

Machines think they're human because WAU uploads the human consciousness (or at least a recorded version) to the them via the black boxes, upon death. You could argue that Golaski was alive when he met his machine self, which is why I mention recorded as well as transferred.

Why it does this, I have no idea. Maybe a way of escaping death? The people probably don't remember their deaths because that would lead to trauma, suicide and perma death (so to speak).

Machines also think they're bodies are human, because that data is being relayed to them by WAU, to again, to avoid people going insane.