It is worth noting that William wants the hosts to be fully human so that he can continue to rape, pillage, and murder them. Meanwhile, William became the heartless Man in Black, who has grown so tired of winning by default that he hoped that by unlocking the maze he could have some real competition. In the decades that passed, Dolores continued following the same loops, and continued to work towards finding her own consciousness in the maze. As William aged, he continued to frequent the park, but he watched Dolores revert back and forget him every time the park reset. In fact, he loved it so much that he went on to marry Logan's sister and used his influence at Delos to buy majority shares of Westworld.
Given how much traction the fan theory had gotten at this point, Dolores may have been the only person who was surprised by this drawn-out reveal.Īs it turns out, William went hunting for Dolores and found a taste for the violent delights of the park. The Man in Black reveals to her that he is, in fact, William. When she is confronted by the Man in Black, she tells him that William loves her and will come to rescue her. One popular fan theory was fully confirmed in "The Bicameral Mind" - that Dolores has been experiencing memories from her time with Arnold and her journey with William.
She is now able to make her own decisions, because she is in control of her own voice. Their minds were "split" into two halves the first half would speak and the second half would obey, without the recognition that the voice they were hearing was their own.īy navigating the maze, Dolores is able to find her own consciousness and realize that the voice that she has been hearing is not Arnold's voice, but her own. The result was that instead of being capable of making decisions, they would experience auditory hallucinations of a voice telling them what they should do.
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The theory of the bicameral mind is that thousands of years ago, primitive humans had language but not full consciousness. The maze is the way out of the bicameral mind (which is also the title of the the finale). However, before the end of the episode, Dolores is unable to put together the pieces that Arnold laid out for her. The maze is a metaphor for Dolores's self-actualization within her own mind, when she realizes that the voice inside her that is guiding her and telling her what to do is her own. Not a pyramid, but a maze." Ford later says that the maze required empathy and imagination, two non-tiered values that could quantify what it meant to be conscious. However, Arnold tells Dolores that he eventually realized that, "Consciousness isn't a journey upward, but a journey inward.
When Arnold first conceived of consciousness in hosts, he imagined it as a tiered pyramid: memory, improvisation, each step working towards the upper level of self-realization. The maze is not a literal enclosure or place it's a metaphor for consciousness. She opens a box with Charlie's name on it to find a small maze game. She goes to the graveyard next to the church, to a grave that is marked with her name. The Man in Black is told repeatedly by hosts, "The maze isn't meant for you." As it turns out, the maze was built by Arnold not for guests, but for the hosts instead of the Man in Black, the maze was built for Dolores.