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Originally Posted by Anyong Bluth

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He says, you could practically say I was born here or grew up here.

Given his age, he couldn't have been a kid, but he could be patient zero for the update glitch and one of the original hosts that Hopkins in secret turned loose with a fake human profile.
Remember the 2 techs check in on him and one asks if they should slow him down. The other guy says no and intimates he can do as he wants and has some type of special arrangement or status.

If Harris is a robot, the obvious direction is that he's become self aware and seeking to meet "the creator" and move into the "real" world. My guess is he's searching for the hidden access points within the park, and more specifically one of the unknown / secret ones that Hopkins uses that aren't monitored and possibly the maze leads to a point where he can confront Hopkins directly and bypass all the security on the other side?


That still doesn't explain how the other robots have the information he's looking for.

I also get the feeling that the young boy Hopkins talks with is a robot version of him as a young boy.

Which makes you wonder if the glitch is beta testing for transferring memories?

One man facing old age and death trying to escape his reality by transferring his consciousness and live forever artificially. His creation evolving and trying to break out of the reality that was his artificial origin.

Escape and transcendence.

... as Billy's friend said he was really interested in finding out who William really is.

Spoiler!

It doesn't necessarily have to be THAT big of a secret. The manic f-bomb dropping story-line dork was talking to corporate lady about what the real purpose, or next step, of WestWorld would be. He couldn't come up with it. Off the top of my head I had thought that the easy answer would be developing other complexes like the original movie (Roman World, Medieval World, etc.) but the more interesting one would be developing consciousness transference for the 'rich assholes' once they developed hosts complex enough to handle sentience. She never gave him the answer because he couldn't come up with it himself.