I think Lumons goal is to create a chip, that can be activated every time a person has to do something unpleasant or painful.
With this chip a person that is afraid of flying or the dentist could just activate the chip and can travel easier and have better dental health.
People that hate to do physical exercises can simply let their innie do the work and be fit and healthy without having to work for it.
Woman that are to afraid to give birth can have children without having to suffer through a potentially painful birth. When Lumon has a chip like that, they might be able to convince a lot of people to get chipped. That is something Jame talked to Helena about in season 1 episode 9. “Everybody should have a chip!”
And when everybody has a Lumon chip they might have darker plans to control people with these chips.
So on the testing floor they created a chip that makes Innies willing to take the pain for the Outie. Maybe they are able to copy Gemmas chip after Cold Harbour. And these copied chips could then be implanted in others?
What do you think?
That’s a really good theory, and it makes a lot of sense.
I think there’s something else going on too though. The Egan family is so obsessed with themselves and their legacy. I suspect they see this project as some sort of path to immorality. Some sort of consciousness transfer into the body of a new host. Maybe they get to live with the other consciousness. Or maybe they overview that consciousness completely.
And I think that’s an underlying motive for this project. Kind of a twofold benefit: they get to make a financial killing by selling throwaway innies to do unpleasant things (your theory); and they get to perpetuate themselves after the death of their physical body.
I think the something else, the something darker, is the ethics of it all. We see it from Helena when Helly tries to quit, “I am a person, you are not.”
I also suspect that the four tempers, Woe, Frolic, Dread, Malice, are viewed as something that is holding humanity back. That a “perfect” human is a being that has control of these tempers. By severing these tempers you can create a “perfect” society.
The consciousness transfer was something I thought about as well. I think Jame said something to Helly (at the same scene in season 1 episode 9) about he wants Helena to be at his revolving. It somehow sounded to me like rebirth? And a transfer of consciousness could be seen as rebirth. Maybe Jame even wants his consciousness transformed to Helly (the Innie) now? Because he sees Kier in her but not in Helena?
I bet some of our speculations are true and some false.
I pray to Kier it won’t take another 3 years till we find out more! :)
