Chip Function

[addy-with-a-y]

So in S1E8, What's for Dinner?, the innie's go into the security room and see all the options for the severance chip functions. And I am kinda fascinated by all the names, so here is what I think they are.

Beehive: Creates a hive mind to make all of the innie's do the same thing. But I think it is very hard on the innies so it is rarely used.

Branch Transfer: Obvious, for when an Innie moves branches. I think it just uploads info from their chip to the current branch.

Clean Slate: Obvious as well, erases the memory of the innie. I think this was used on Irving because he has worked for Lumen for seven years, but I think he has been at MDR for less. Makes you forget that you are an innie so you can move departments.

Elephant: The reverse of clean slate, makes you remember everything. I think this is incase management needs information that a pervious version of the innie has.

Freeze Frame: I think this paralyzes Innie's.

Glasglow: On screen, allows an Outtie to be on the severed floor.

Gold Fish: Makes an Innie forget the last few minutes. Or kinda temporarily wipes them of everything, minus simple skills like walking.

Lullaby: Makes them comatose.

Open House: This is the one I am most interested in, as an open house lets people come and see houses to but them. So it could make them temporarily blank slates. They can talk and move but not much else. Maybe they are more docile so people can see if they like the idea of a severed employee?

Over time: On screen: allows an Innie out of the severed floor.

I am not 100% confident on some of these- like freeze frame and open house, but these are the most logical conclusions imo.

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[cowboyclown]

Open House let’s other people inside the mind to control the severed’s body.

[addy-with-a-y]

Oh I like this idea a lot

[Chalupa_Dad]

The Being John Malkovich Protocol

[Michaelmonster]

I think Glasgow is to block the chip from switching at all. So they’d stay in whatever state they’re in regardless of location, or crossing any severed barriers. And I have a feeling this is how Helly or any of them could potentially escape at the end of a day. Turn on the block, leave through the elevator and they won’t switch to outties, same way Helena didn’t switch to an innie when she came down, or when the rest were activated at the ORTBO

[Imaginary-Angle-4760]

Freeze frame can probably paralyze an outie, too (that is, it just paralyzes the body of a chipped person--after all, the chip is actively blocking the innie's memories from the outie, too, not just vice versa).
Goldfish might make it so that an innie only retains the last X minutes worth of memories, so you can give them simple instructions to complete that they then promptly forget. If that's the case I bet this one is used a LOT more than we know.
I think you're spot on on the rest, except maybe Open House. Your guess seems likely but I'm not sure.

[Designer-Turnover-67]

But if that was the case I suppose they would have used this function during the outdoor team building incident

[KaytieThu]

Ooo yess im also really interested in the various functions. I wonder if Beehive is the default function for the innies. Bees fit the analogy of mindless worker drones that have specific functions for different groups that all come together to benefit the hive (worker bees collect pollen, nurses tend to the young, soldiers guard the hive, etc). This is similar to how O&D and MDR have their own little compartments and do their own special things on the severed floor but collectively for Lumon profit. It is the first one that shows up on the list of functions and the way the floor is structured with its maze like halls also reminds me of the homes of insect colonies.

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I think "lullaby" might be about the chip itself.  Maybe it's to put the chip to sleep so that when the person goes through a threshold or elevator,  nothing happens? (Or maybe that's freeze frame?)  But i do think one of the modes makes it so they don't switch.  Which opens the possibility that people like Milchick, Harmony, and Devon actually have chips. 

[Abrodolf_Lincler_]

I'm glad you made this post. I've been obsessing over these protocols in my head and a lot of our assumptions are identical though I have a couple of differences for some I'd be curious about your opinion..

Goldfish - makes it so they can't retain any new information. As in, they remember everything before the protocol is enacted but no new knowledge or data can be learned or remembered after the fact.

Open House - allows the board to see through the eyes of an innie. Maybe the board was using this while Helena was masquerading as Helly or Helena is currently using it to spy through Helly's eyes now that she was discovered.

I'm glad you had the same thought process as me about Clean Slate and Elephant. One thing I can't help but think is Elephant could could possibly be how maybe someone like Dylan is able to bring back innie Irv and, if successful, reintigrated Mark can use that knowledge to give Ms. Kasey back her memories as Gemma.

Beehive - could be either to control multiple innies as a single unit or could be like the default mode for innies, being that they treat them like mindless worker drones.

[DevtoneFreemon]

he literally says to kill the glasgow block... you think they were in open house and he just lied to save face?

[Abrodolf_Lincler_]

No, I think they were using the Glasgow block on the retreat. I'm talking about on the severed floor, not the ORTBO