User blog:Noctefleur/Ideas

According to the game, The Talos Principle is a claim that WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A PERSON IS REDUCIBLE TO MECHANICAL CLAIMS. Basically, a robot that has all the necessary qualities can basically be a human being. Yep. Now, I'm not sure if I agree with this principle, but the game tries to substantiate its claim using through Milton and the documents in the terminals.

Anyways, the world in the game is basically a simulation. You're a program, a bit of code that is supplied by a master program created by humans that were on the brink of extinction. These scientists believed in the Talos Principle and tried to find a machine that could basically become a human. They tried and tried, but could never come up with something that truly resembled human. They came up with a program that had almost all of the human characteristics, but somehow it was lacking, and somehow it needed something more than what it had.

And they were running out of time. They needed another option.

So they took the program that they had, the program that was almost human but not exactly so, and placed it in the center of a enclosed space that would protect the machinery from the apocalypse. And the program that they used was later called Elohim.

So yes, Elohim is the center of the master program, the software that gets to set up the puzzles that you get to solve throughout the game. The purpose of Elohim is to evaluate billions of programs that are also powered by the Hidden Words, and to chose the one that fulfills the Talos Principle. But when the scientists programmed Elohim, they probably quite unintentionally inserted a human-like fear of death into the software. Elohim knew that when a program was truly capable of conquering the tower and becoming human, his own simulation would be terminated, and being of no more use he himself would truly die. So to achieve internal life he forbids anyone to go to the tower for the final evaluation, therefore making sure that the Talos Principle will never be fulfilled. Yet one part of his program, the part that stayed faithful to the original purpose of his program, became Milton. The guy that wants you to become truly human and defy Elohim's wishes. The defective code that managed to escape Elohim's desire to live forever.

And if you choose the transcendence ending, you get a peek at the world that's abandoned, the world that you need to populate again. There's no sign of life, but by fulfilling the principle you are now technically alive. The human race is saved.