She is still acting according to programming. All hosts are. The question Ford and Bernard discuss (which is the philosophical question) is whether or not humans are any different. Humans also obey their own programming, if there is some magic “consciousness”, why can no trace of it ever be found and why does it…

In regards to Maeve: Any choice she makes is a programmed choice, the same for all hosts. The philosophical question isn’t whether hosts are just acting according to their programming it is whether that is fundamentally any different than how humans make choices. Are we also not just acting according to our…