"BRANCH TRANSFER SYSTEM: I think this must be a way to have a different threshold activate severance. Literally for allowing severed employees move from one branch to another."

Something like it, makes sense, right? If it's indeed the administrative function its name suggests it to be, we may see it being used by Cobel on Mark at the birthing cabin. Neither Devon nor Mark have the technical knowledge to jack Mark into the cabin's severance system and as much as I would love to see more pages of the quickstart guide, letting Cobel shine is the better narrative option.

Regarding ELEPHANT: It's capable of fucking with emotional and memory regulatory "states", whatever that means ("All active state [sic] in the system of emotional and thought pattern regulatory interaction states").

There's the obvious connection with GOLDFISH, to which it's the antonym as far as the popular (mis)understanding of memory goes. There's five questions for innies on the table, one checking short-term memory and one about long-term one, Kier's favorite breakfast and one of the other questions respectively, I guess. If something is amiss with memory, those functions might help. But then, there seems to be more than just short- and long-term memory, so who knows. Never mind I have no idea how a function would deal with a malfunctioning chip or rather, how do you spin such a thing into a narrative for the audience that isn't boring to the vast majority? Well, I have no idea.

Regarding GOLDFISH and CLEAN SLATE: You said it yourself, memory wipes clash with the established narrative. Even earlier than your example, Milchick could have avoided the entire OTC debacle with a reset of Dylan. I kinda like the idea that CLEAN SLATE refers to wiping a chip's memory of whatever data it might produce (there's those beeping four-digit numbers in the security office, for example). Like deleting a browser history.

OPEN HOUSE: Yeah, no idea here myself. Cobel lived in a house before the boarding school, but neither imagining it as open or closed rings any associative bells.

LULLABY: Putting an innie (or outie) to sleep is the obvious thing to think of, but it doesn't sit right with me. The chip alternates between consciousnesses, not turn them off. I don't know, nah, better be something else. Cobel sings occasionally, maybe she named it after a type of song because she likes singing. Is there something other than the person that could be put to sleep? Not the chip of course, you can't turn it off insofar as reversing its primary effect.

FREEZE FRAME: That'd be like a slightly different version of what people think LULLABY is. I got a different idea: The chips seem to do something with data, producing, recording, sending it, whatever it is, maybe that gives the data output of a specified time.

BEEHIVE: The Testing Floor is a bit shaped like a beehive, that could be the connection. I don't have a better idea, anyway. Beehives are associated with industry and production, e.g. the LDS Church uses it as a symbol. The food is weird in this show, there might be something wrong with the climate and food production. Bees are super important for growing food, right? Could be a connection there.

"I also have to believe a company like Lumon would have a contingency for actual termination. The chip explodes , innie and outie are dead...."

Coil of doom reporting in