#BB from a theist#
I don't know what the world view set by the Nolans for the show is like, the following are just my personal associations caused by watching the show.
When a drama can arouse associations and discussions on so many levels, no matter what the team wants to express, or even if there are some loopholes in the plot and some shortcomings in the sci-fi imagination, it is enough to be regarded as a profoundly successful work.
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Lenovo after watching episode 8
The associations brought by this story line of A are too rich.
This is a wrong world: 1 Peter 2:11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
After realizing the truth, A kept sharing Maze with other hosts, hoping that the host could wake up and walk outside the door to live a free life: Luke 4:18-19 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.”
A believes that the greatest love and protection for Meave and her little benefactor is to let them know the truth of the world, even through the incomprehensible way of scalping: John 8:32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
A's curiosity, thinking, and questioning, got the answer from Ford: Luke 11:10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
Ford dies to set Hosts 'free'
2018.6.14
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Although the second season is not as catchy as the first season in terms of plot, it has dug a lot of holes and still enjoys the process of guessing!
Westworld didn't appeal to me because of the plot, but the worldview behind it and the idea of the writers were really intriguing. How do you define a person as a person? If man is an animal, then does it have to have a body? If a person is a body and a soul, then it is enough to have a body, feelings, emotions, and character. But what if man has three parts: spirit, soul, and body? Maybe the character and memory can be repeated and repeated, but what is the most special spirit?
According to the setting of Westworld, this "spirit" is self-awareness/free will, which is the key to distinguish people from ordinary machines. Space and time are limited, but in these limited environments, people with "spirits" should be able to break away from the script setting and make different choices in a limited environment.
Sometimes when I watch a show, I just think about it. Do the Nolans want to experience the feeling of God creating man on some level? First try to create a body like yourself, and then try to make this body respond to various stimuli, and then make them like yourself, can also have free will.
And all the hosts in westword that have a tendency to wake up must first recognize that they are created. Demei has memories and recalls the process of being debugged by Bernard. Mobil sees its own lines directly in the workshop. Bernard was also forced to accept that he was artificial. When they realize and accept that they are different from ordinary human beings and created by human beings, they really start to have freewill. It's just that there is a different reaction after this acknowledgment.
Demei thought that she was being tortured and entertained by people, she jumped in anger, and wanted to rush to the place where people live to take revenge and replace them. Mobil thinks that he is man-made, and is determined to take back his control and fight for his family. Bernard? After awakening, nothing seems to be special. Now I don't see him taking the initiative to make choices, it seems that he is being pushed away by the environment. Maybe this kind of negativity is also a choice. I calmly accept the fact that I am a robot. Considering that I was created to manage the paradise, there is nothing wrong, so after I have the right to choose, I will continue to help repair and restore the order of the paradise. .
From the audience's point of view, I hope they have real freedom. But Demei and Mobil have consciousness, but are they really free?
Think of the biblical narrative. When God created, the natural environment came first, then plants (physical creatures), animals (with emotions and character. Self-awareness? Probably not), humans (with spirits, and initially recognized God's creation and created them in awe Yes, that's still self-aware). The god like an old mother must also happily watch the two babies have self-awareness.
If this premise is correct, and man is really created by God, then if he does not admit that he is created/is not aware that he is created, then he has no awakening (self-consciousness, free will), that is, he has no spirit (or spirit). died). So when Eve and Adam questioned who they were created to (hope to be like God; don't believe what God says "eat and die"), and take action (eat the promise not to eat) their spirits have died. Sin (not fearing God) also happened.
People without spirits also live in their own loops. Under the influence of the factory-set core memory (original family?) and character, do "good" or "evil". There may be no set lines, but there is also no great freedom of play. Therefore, the family of origin theory is very insightful. If there is no other intervention, what you have done in your life can really be explained by the background of the family of origin and the innate personality characteristics. This can also understand why some people will undergo huge changes after they believe in the Lord. Knowing that the past self lived in loops, and slowly got out of loops with the assistance of external force. Life inside loops is always "nothing new under the sun", and outside loops there is a lot of room for improvement. This can also understand why some epoch-making figures have beliefs.
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