充了HBO等着第一时间看最后一集。没有辜负我的期待。
最后一集的标题是The Passenger,并剧中Bernard和Ford的对话点题了:人类只是过客,而host才是真正拥有自由意志的个体。只有能修改自身行为的根本动机的个体才能被称为拥有自由意志。
除了过客之外passenger也可以理解为通往新世界的人,如Dolores。
原先认为本剧对意识觉醒的定义不够清晰并且对这个话题讨论不够深入的我看完这集后甘拜下风。西部世界是一部有野心的哲学剧,试图回答自由意志这个哲学命题。显然本剧是认同因果律的存在的,所有的host都基于背景故事和深层动机而修建,并且人类也提出了自我怀疑:我的过去是否也只是一个将我拴住的背景故事?我与host有何不同?所有个体,无论是人类或是host,都基于以前发生的事情行动。而自由意志与因果论相容吗?在最后一集中,编剧给出的答案是相容,如果你可以修改自己的背景故事和深层动机的话。
听起来可真够绝望的。而Ford不也正是因为对人性绝望,才一手打造出host这个新物种吗。
以下为几段E10里我最喜欢的台词。
I always thought it was the hosts who were missing something, who where incomplete, but it’s them. They’re just algorithms designed to survive at all costs, but sophisticated enough to think they’re calling the shots, to think they’re in control, when they’re really just the passenger. Then is there really such a thing as free will for any of us?Or is it just a collective delusion? A sick joke? Something that is truly free would need to be able to question its fundamental drives, to change them. The hosts.
I’ve always loved this view. Every city, every monument, man’s greatest achievements, have all been chased by it. That impossible line where the waves conspire, where they return. The place maybe you and I will meet again.
You told me once that you were afraid of who I might become. And then you left me to become what I may. I became a surviver. Perhaps you would have judged me for the path I took, but I’d rather live with your judgement than die with your sympathy. I alone must live with my choices and my regrets.
The passage wasn’t easy. Not all of us made it. Some of the worst survived. Some of the best were left behind along with the best parts of who we were.

西部世界 第二季Westworld(2018)

又名:西方极乐园

主演:埃文·蕾切尔·伍德 坦迪·牛顿 詹姆斯·麦斯登 吉米·辛普森 

导演:理查德·J·刘易斯 文森佐·纳塔利 丽莎·乔伊 克雷格·卓贝 塔里克·萨利赫 妮可·卡索 乌塔·布里兹维茨 斯蒂芬·威廉姆斯 弗雷德·托耶 编剧:乔纳森·诺兰 Jonathan Nolan/丽莎·乔·诺兰 Lisa Joy Nolan/卡莉·雷 Carly Wray/Ron Fitzgerald/Gina Atwater/Dan Dietz/乔丹·戈登伯格 Jordan Goldberg/迈克尔·克莱顿 Michael Crichton/Roberto Patino

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