You asked for an explanation for how Bernard could be a robot
Just to be clear up front, I don't believe the Bernard is a host theory, but the way you explain it is this:
We haven't seen direct evidence of the rest of Bernard's life that involves real people. His wife appeared as just a video chat, and I have to believe that if society has advanced enough to create the hosts, they could do a convincing CGI video chat. Especially considering that they went out of their way to say that bandwidth out was limited, so quality might not be perfect on the call. His dead son has only been shown as memories and a single picture.
In short, we haven't seen any real evidence that Bernard has a life outside of Delos Corp.
My personal theory?:
The Bernard we see working with other people is a real human who had real tragedy in his life and basically just works all the time - the Bernard that interviews Dolores when she is naked is real human Bernard. The Bernard we see interviewing Dolores when she is clothed is not real. That is Dolores' memory of interviews with Arnold (the bicameral mind stuff mixing with Ford's reveries) and for some reason or another in her dreams she remembers Arnold as Bernard.
Maybe that's because after he died (or whatever happened) the memory of Arnold was erased from the hosts, so instead of talking to a faceless figure in her dreams she just uses the likeness of the new head of programming, Bernard. then somewhere down the road we'll get a better view of Arnold or Dolores will see a picture of him and in her next dream she'll have the flickering face replacement that happened when she looked down at her dead "new dad".
If those conversations are just dreams then it explains a lot about how they are happening when she is with people, removes some of the need to try and wedge in a second time period, and it doesn't require any special new stuff that they haven't shown like the ability to interact in VR with a saved copy of Dolores or the ability to wirelessly remote desktop into hosts.
We haven't seen direct evidence of the rest of Bernard's life that involves real people. His wife appeared as just a video chat, and I have to believe that if society has advanced enough to create the hosts, they could do a convincing CGI video chat. Especially considering that they went out of their way to say that bandwidth out was limited, so quality might not be perfect on the call. His dead son has only been shown as memories and a single picture.
In short, we haven't seen any real evidence that Bernard has a life outside of Delos Corp.
My personal theory?:
The Bernard we see working with other people is a real human who had real tragedy in his life and basically just works all the time - the Bernard that interviews Dolores when she is naked is real human Bernard. The Bernard we see interviewing Dolores when she is clothed is not real. That is Dolores' memory of interviews with Arnold (the bicameral mind stuff mixing with Ford's reveries) and for some reason or another in her dreams she remembers Arnold as Bernard.
Maybe that's because after he died (or whatever happened) the memory of Arnold was erased from the hosts, so instead of talking to a faceless figure in her dreams she just uses the likeness of the new head of programming, Bernard. then somewhere down the road we'll get a better view of Arnold or Dolores will see a picture of him and in her next dream she'll have the flickering face replacement that happened when she looked down at her dead "new dad".
If those conversations are just dreams then it explains a lot about how they are happening when she is with people, removes some of the need to try and wedge in a second time period, and it doesn't require any special new stuff that they haven't shown like the ability to interact in VR with a saved copy of Dolores or the ability to wirelessly remote desktop into hosts.
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