The Age of Imms

I think the chips in their brains preserve the version of them that is compliant and exist inside the severed world because otherwise what's the point? I think, I think Lumen is keeping all of this information. Oh, interesting. Everything recorded. So it's not necessarily my own, but part of the theory is that Lumen's goal is a version of controllable artificial life. Which they could name her. It's like turning off a computer program that you never turn on again. They're killing Bert because the second at least the any version of Bert dies.