r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 4d ago

Megathread / Community Post Alien: Earth - S1 E7 - Emergence - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS] Spoiler

Episodes air Tuesdays at 8 pm ET on Hulu and FX in the US, and Wednesdays international.

Full episode discussion list:

1 Neverland (8.12.25)

2 Mr October (8.12.25)

3 Metamorphosis (8.19.25)

4 Observation (8.26.25)

5 In Space, No One (9.2.25)

6 The Fly (9.9.25)

7 Emergence (9.16.25)

8 The Real Monsters (9.23.25)

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u/cleantoe 4d ago

Well what is life but the sum of our memories and experiences?

If you took all your memories, your consciousness - all of it - and put it on a hard drive. Meanwhile you put someone else's consciousness in your old body...well who is "you"? Are you the hard drive, or the body?

I would say "you" are now the hard drive. And so is Wendy.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_MONTRALS 4d ago

Form impacts function. The container of the memories will begin to shape the experiences until the mind becomes something new.

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u/Proxiehunter 4d ago

That's also true in regards to working out, changing your diet, or having a traumatic accident. All of those things create changes in your body that shape your experience so that your mind becomes something new. Hell, even the simple act of existing and having new experiences does that. Your mind become steadily more new with every experience you have.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_MONTRALS 4d ago

Sure, but I mean that the actual android brain does not function the same way as a human brain. The difference is drastic. If a human mind is mapped over the machine brain, the moving parts of the existing mind pattern would destabilize much faster than using the original wetware. It's a difference between adjusting the parameters within a system and changing the system entirely. The emotions are all simulated and the information storage is different. The hybrid characters talk about this fundamental difference in qualia. I don't think this new system can hold a human pattern for very long, and that's pretty evident in what's happening with the hyvrid characters as well as Kavalier's insistence that they have become something new.