Talk:A.L.I.E./@comment-26247132-20150709064707/@comment-81.44.115.216-20160318130108

I agree with your idea. ALIE's core command is to make life better. But when you have too many people fighting each other for resources, power, ambition, etc., it seems she would have a really hard time making her core command a reality. So, step number one: reduce population. Nuclear apocalypse. Still humans fight each other. The problems are still the same. She cannot fullfill her program.

So, she has to change people, make them compliant, turn them into followers. A body, as a physical form, has needs. But in a silicon-based form, those needs are nonexistent. So she needs to replicate real people in the City of Lights (her ideal world). To do that, ALIE uses the chips. They somehow register people's consciousness and memories making a sort of back-up copy for each person.

The real person is still in very much alive except for their worst/saddest memories which have been purged from their consciousness. And so they're are far more compliant. More manageable. They begin to work for ALIE.

ALIE may be choosing which people she wants to have in the City of Lights. She has access to nuclear devices and she was the will to use them to comply with her core programming: to make life better. She could wipe out the rest of the population to avoid repeating mistakes. She will have the silicon-based forms copies of all they humans that ingested her chip living in an ideal world. So, in essence, she can fulfill her core command.

Question though. I don't know if it has been adressed elsewhere in the Wiki. Could the pack Jaha and Otan were so worried about a sort of device similar to Star Trek EHM Doctor? A holographic emitter that allows ALIE and anyone living ONLY in COL project their consciousness anywhere in the world. Maybe is ALIE is capable of making or finding more devices like that one, her world would expand.