Maeve and the kid made it whilst out in the field . All the Hosts retain memory of the symbol and recreate it subconsciously . It isn ' t a maze , BTW its the logo of the company Fords former partner Arnold was originally running before Delos turned the place into Westworld . The symbol represents human consciousness inside an artificial electronic mind . Arnold wasn ' t originally engaged in developing AI in machines he had a son who was dying from a medically incurable illness . His actual research was into finding a means of allowing a human consciousness to survive death inside an artificial host mind . It ' s where the term Host originally comes from . <| sep |> Ran my 5 k this morning with Strava . No achievement . So . ran another 5 k this afternoon with the Apple app . Got my turkey . Feels good .