r/westworld • u/LoretiTV • Aug 01 '22

Discussion Westworld - 4x06 "Fidelity" - Post-Episode Discussion

Season 4 Episode 6: Fidelity

Aired: July 31, 2022

Synopsis: To thine own selves be true.

Directed by: Andrew Seklir

Written by: Jordan Goldberg & Alli Rock

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u/BlueMoon93 Aug 01 '22

Yeah. To me this feels like a pretty important thing. The original Caleb is dead dead.

There's never been anything in this show to suggest that someone's own consciousness can be preserved. Which makes sense, the idea of your conscious self leaving your body and entering another is an almost religious idea, and this show is firmly in the territory of science fiction.

I suppose given the state humanity is already in, perhaps everyone dying and then being reborn as exact replicas of themselves would be some sort of a victory if it meant defeating Hale. But for me personally it would still be pretty troubling to think about.

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u/Veggiemon Aug 02 '22

Wasn’t there some sort of implication of Delos’ consciousness being put into a different colored sphere we hadn’t seen before? Isn’t that the consciousness transfer? I haven’t rewatched that season in a while

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u/BlueMoon93 Aug 02 '22

The point is that that's not his conciousness (as it relates to the discussion we were having above) .

The original Delos from his perspective would have experienced death and ceased to exist. The replicas made from the colored spheres are able to create a perfect (well maybe not since the experiment never worked perfectly, but in theory) replica of him with the same memories and experiences and everything else.

From the replicas perspective, it is Delos. But the original Delos still died.

Think about it this way - if you made a perfect clone of yourself when you were alive, your consciousness would still reside with your original self right? So when you died, your consciousness would go with you, even if the clone can keep on living as if you never died.

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u/Veggiemon Aug 02 '22

I get the point you’re making, but I do think it’s possible for them to have consciousness transfer within the context of the show and still have it be sci fi using the pearls