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And there is also Logan (Ben Barnes) who has arrived to the park with his new brother in law, William (Jimmi Simpson). There is ‘the Man in Black’ (Ed Harris), who rapes, tortures, and kills the hosts, acting like a complete sociopath in his drive to unlock another gaming level in the park. Two such characters are the embodiment of this. Westworld the theme park is filled with guests who have come to live out their most anti-social and destructive fantasies. It shows you who you really are.” And in episode 8, the Man in Black echoes this, saying to another character that Westworld “reveals your true self.” But what do these statements mean? How could a fantasy world reveal our true selves? The writers of Westworld hint at this hidden theme in two statements from episodes 7 and 8, “Trump L’Oeil” and “Trace Decay.” In episode 7, William tells Delores that Westworld “reveals your deepest self. The deeper philosophical problem does not have to do with machines, but with human beings. But let us put this obvious philosophical theme to the side and focus on what I think is the more hidden philosophical problem contained within the show. Following this main narrative conflict, the surface level of Westworld probes questions about artificial intelligence and consciousness, specifically in terms of the role of memory in consciousness, anticipation, adaptation, and freedom, including the freedom to revolt. She slaps and kills it, leaving a blood mark after her hand drops away. She responds, “No.” In the next and final scene, Dolores is standing on her family porch and a fly lands on her neck. In the closing scenes of episode 1, “The Original,” the main character Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) is asked by a technician if she could ever kill a living thing. There is foreshadowing of the traditional sci-fi theme of the revolt of the machines against their makers. They are beginning to act strangely, stepping out of their narrative roles, and-most importantly-beginning to remember the past traumatic events that they have suffered under the hands of the guests, even though their memories should have been completely wiped. The main narrative tension in Westworld is that something is going wrong with the hosts’ programming after a recent update.
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If they are mutilated or die, their android bodies are recycled and fixed up, their memories wiped, and they are placed back in the park to start their own personal narrative all over again. They give every evidence of actually suffering. What makes it all so terrifying and life-like is that when the hosts are being killed or raped, they really think it’s happening to them. But hosts can kill other hosts and guests can do whatever they want to the hosts: have sex, rape, mutilate, torture, kill etc. When a gun is shot at a guest, bullets either miss or do not penetrate the skin. They cannot kill or harm the human guests even though they try (nor can human guests shoot other guests). The hosts think that they are real people and do not understand that they have been programmed simply to act a role. Guests get to play along in different narratives that the hosts help them act out. They play the roles of prostitutes, bar tenders, cowboys, sheriffs, gunslingers, wanted gang members, ranchers, etc.
The androids that populate Westworld, called hosts, are the main attraction in the park. Westworld itself is a Wild West theme park that costs wealthy guests $40,000/day to attend. The world of Westworld is set some time in the future, when American scientists and technicians are capable of creating androids so life-like that they cannot be told apart from real human beings. And it’s not about artificial intelligence, “bicameral theories of mind,” or skeptical metaphysics, but about us-real human beings. But there is a deeper meaning that many might miss.
On the surface, Westworld taps into traditional sci-fi and contemporary philosophical questions about artificial intelligence and consciousness.
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HBO’s recent sci-fi/fantasy series Westworld was one of the best TV shows this Fall.
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