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Basically the protagonist of the story doesn't somehow understand what Catherine is saying and assumed that he would transfer instead of having another copy made of him.
It's extremely conflicting especially if you pay attention to the story, how dumb the main character is.
Yeah, she explained it like, three or four times before, but Simon just didn't get it. Which he should have, because he had enough self awareness to realize that he was Simon Nr.3 already...
I took it to be more open ended. I mean, Catherine's in the Ominitool which seems to have a hefty battery on it as well as being easily recharged with recharge points just about anywhere. All that really happened was the console was broken, not the actual Ominitool. All Simon needs to do is take the Ominitool out and place it in a console back in the interior or Pi and bob's your uncle, hello Catherine! Even if the Ominitool was screwed i'm pretty sure he could transfer her software/mind over to the base's main terminal(The only reason you needed the chair as Jason is because he exists in a half dead body and can't be as easily transferred and plugged into a terminal like Catherine).
It really was aggravating just how dense simon was.. i felt bad for Catherine, she didn't deserve his behaviour.. she was just as stuck as him, but he was raging like it was all her fault... this was ALWAYS going to be how it ended... everyone saw it coming, except simon apparently. I was actually thankful when Catherine 'died'... it was merciful... she wouldn't be stuck with this idiot any more.
hardly.. you succeeded.. you gave the human race a fighting chance to go on. You accomplished the goal, and made it onto the ark. It was a downer for the 3rd simon, but a massive achievement and success for the 4th simon.. and if 3rd simon wasn't being such a ♥♥♥♥ about it, and pondering his future, he'd realise what a massive thing he accomplished.
one of the core themes i picked up from the game was the idea of transition.. humanity was entering a new phase. it wasn't life as we knew it, it was a chance to go forward. catherine made it clear staying on earth was a dead end... humanity was screwed, but whos to say how we might be able to develop in that box? we could become beings of pure energy or find ways of leaving the box... im sure the idea of leaving earth was at one point utterly ludicrous and we assumed we'd be stuck here because its all we knew. Whos to say what could happen. a CHANCE is better than none at all... The core theme of the game led up to the question of whether or not what was in the ark, was still humanity... if your conclusion was that it wasn't, then thats your ending... humanity died when we killed the last woman... but if your conclusion was that all the personalities we met along the way, including simon(s) himself were still representative of humans, and human life, then yes... the ark does represent hope and a chance to continue.
It's also worth noting that time wouldn't necessarily be percieved in the ark the same way it is in the 'real world'... a day in the outside world could be 10 years... 100.. a thousand within the ark. It could be a billion years worth of evolution within the virtual environment before the lifespan of the ark was exhausted.
one of the characters posed that very question, and catherine fought to the death over that very issue, saying it was still worth the risk, because staying in pathos 2 was a dead end, trapped at the bottom of the ocean... a chance in a million is still a chance, a hope, versus a certainty of death.
Except it clearly states that the cortex chip is corrupted, if you pay attention to the screen before it turns off.
Catherine's software was on that cortex chip, as she gave it to Simon when he found her at Lambda. So therefore wouldn't the chip, along with that version of Catherine be completely ruined?
Either way, if the cortex chip really did get completely destroyed then it would point to Catherine setting it up that way... I just couldn't see it being so convenient that seconds after launch the chip dies like that. Basically, Catherine is an evil ♥♥♥♥♥ leaving Simon at the bottom of the ocean all alone like that regardless of her beliefs on continuity or not.
Edit: I just double checked. It says nothing about the cortex chip. All it says is "Critical Failure" and "Please retry" repeating. Wasn't that simply tied to the pilot seat and the Omega Launcher and not Catherine? At least that's the impression I was given.
When he's first copied, he is upset because he didn't know that's how the transfer to the new body would work. He thought it'd be a brain transplant. When he finds out his info was just copied, and another version of himself was left behind, he was rightfully upset because it introduced a moral dilemma that he wasn't prepared to deal with.
He talks to Catherine a lot about it on the ride down into the abyss. He throws out a lot of "what ifs" and still sees the situation as really bad. He eventually asks Catherine to speak because he doesn't want to think anymore. At this point, I believe that Simon understands the copying sequence, but the thought of it, and his own moral struggle with it, makes him want to forget that it happened. To focus on the ARK, which is the goal to save humanity.
He collects himself and presses on, holding onto the hope that he and Catherine are going to get onto the ARK. Him being copied again doesn't cross his mind because he's put it out of thought. He doesn't want to think about that. He's only imagining being transferred onto the ARK again.
But, when it comes down to it at the end, and he's still in the pilot seat, he asks Catherine what went wrong for a second time. And when she tells him, the crushing realization that he didn't want to deal with before came back, and he understood that he was never going to be able to get onto the ARK. This caused him to explode at Catherine moments before her death, and then, when she was gone, he realized that not only was he stuck in a situation he had ignored up to that point, but now he didn't even have a friend with him to help him through it.
So, I don't see Simon as stupid. I see a man who's struggling with the moral concept of what Catherine created with her machine, and the denial that he goes through until the situation can no longer be ignored.