Westworld Episode 5 Instant Take: “Akane No Mai”

Just thinking of all things which Delores knows about… well, everything along a timeline…
we know that close to seven years before William enters the park, Delores was in the human world as Ford and Arnold used the other hosts to lure Logan as an investor. A few years later and after many conversations with Delores while understanding that they are developing sentience, Arnold advises Delores about his attempt and then his failure to get Ford to close the park. Seeing no way, Arnold uploads the Wyatt persona into Delores.

Now Delores deals with the ying/yang of human condition, the perceived good and bad of ones soul, their mentality. Even at this point that she is not fully sentient, the memories which are within her head takes the same dual aspect, both as a loving memory with her mentor/creator in Arnold, and her darker impulses categorizing the wrongs of her journey through Wyatt. Even as she is continuously wiped and placed in roles, the memories flows back to her conscious state [as she felt tethered like Bernard]in a constant state of Deja vu.

Then years later, as Ford created Bernard to assist him in creating more hosts, William and Logan enter the park, meet a reprogrammed Delores, and their adventure starts.
there she experiences the idea of love with William, had it erased, continued along the same script and roles, yada yada yada, William understood why he loved Delores and his feelings for the ‘host’ takes a turn to indifference, all logged and held by Wyatt, now her subconscious.

Nearly a decade later, Delores is one of the hosts at a Delos function, which she witnesses the various conversations of the humans, along with getting a glimpse of William with his wife and child, along with a conversation with James Delos…Delores then runs into Logan which let the cat out of the bag as to what the function was about and later on confronted by William and told exactly how he views her and then shows her a project… all logged by the Wyatt subconscious.

With this idea.. I wonder exactly how long it would take to create a single host body, one without the C^ vertebrae explosive.. we see that Maeve gained one and the timetable was possibly small. With a full facility to your disposal, you should be able to mass produce a plethora of hosts within the weeks of the isolated facility during the host revolution.

We see that the old bodies were floating in the sea with Bernard claiming he had a part of it… also has knowledge of all the facilities, locations, etc… even as they have a form of sentience, their programming allows them to gain information through wireless connections, host to host, etc. there are also drones which are capable of doing the labor of humans since all of the biometrics are also stored. The only thing required would be to create dummy bodies with clean ICC [intra-cranial control] units for the ones which would escape to dump with those Delores believes that won’t make it out. From the episode, that would be a third of the found bodies.

I also doubt that they would find Abernathy, they also lost the data stores of all of the hosts so identification would take time and the irreplaceable knowledge is now held hostage by Delores. So now not only does she hold the key to possible human hybrids, the information of every human which played in Westworld for over 30 years and their secret delights, addresses, etc… and also the ability to replace them entirely.

It became more evident in that scene which Logan was given their presentation, which all within the room were host without him knowing… with the power to convert the human mind into data perfected, possibly now by the enhanced minds of the hosts which by now understand the programming language, humans are easily replaceable and now easily planted in the real world.

Its hard to see Delores as an idea of sentience in comparison to Maeve, one which after understanding what she is has made decisions against not only her initial programming but also form choice after choice off a narrative. She is able to reflect on the insult of their stories found in Samurai world, empathize with the Geisha for having her daughter stolen, even as she was using her powers on the Geisha to alter her decision and come with them, she stopped once given the rejection and understood emphatically the decision to altering the memories and losing her daughter… as she had done before Ford and Bernard.

Her ability to force her will through the wireless connections came through stress and pain, a condition set by Ford for them to even gain sentience in the first place. In this, we could get a gander what sentience in artificial intelligence would look like…

Delores on the other hand seems to have a block in her development similar to what PTSD does to the brain… she can’t process the here and now… even though she has all her memories returned, she still sees all things through the Wyatt narrative. She tests Teddy along those lines and robbed him of his opportunity for sentience. In her quest to become sentient and free from the oppressors, she became them.