The amount of information in the second season of "Westworld" is much smaller than that of the first season, but the multi-line narrative and the interspersed time will make people dizzy. There are mainly such a few lines. First, Dolores took Teddy to the furnace to read the code of the elites of human beings, to prepare for entering the human world in the future, and even to destroy human beings. Here is a flashback to her life in the human world. Seeing and hearing, showing that human beings are not good, the rationality of her purpose. Since its purpose is not made clear until the end, the audience will not understand the logic of his actions. The second is Maeve looking for her daughter. The third is Akai, an Indian who, as an early awakener, wants to take his lover out of this chaotic world. The fourth is Bernard's memory disorder. Due to the memory disorder and the indecision in the choice, the chronological sequence cannot be understood until the end of the line.
Simply put, the main line of this film is that Dolores believes that humans are not good enough, so she has to enter the real world of humans to seize living space, and even destroy humans if necessary. But Arnold couldn't agree, he wanted two lives to coexist peacefully. At the last moment, he helped Dolores, so that Dolores could leave the paradise and enter the human world. Dolores left with Bernard, and made it clear that we would take different paths in the future, but this division was necessary for our people.
What the screenwriter needs to do is make the establishment of the story convincing, and the key point is: why can't humans? Why does the host work?
Let's start with why humans can't.
The play is demonstrating the idea that humans are just simple algorithms.
Words that appear many times in the play are drives, the drive to survive, and conerstone, the cornerstone of existence. And human beings, as creatures that have evolved cruelly for 4.6 billion years, are based on survival, and their driving force is to survive. To demonstrate this, the way is given that no one Dolores has ever met, especially William's father-in-law. In the experiment of William's father-in-law to achieve immortality by copying himself, why it failed, the answer given by the furnace system AI is:
"Replicas fail not because they are too simple, but because they are too complex. The truth is that humans are just simple algorithms. They seem complicated, but they are extremely simple, but their behavior is very predictable. We recreated every one of them. Most of the tourists who set foot in the park are gentle, swinging in love and self-esteem, of course, there are exceptions, those people are hopeless, but no one can really control their behavior."
Dolores' evaluation is:
"They're essentially algorithms, programmed to survive at all costs, so sophisticated that they think they're making decisions, that they're in control, but they're just passengers."
As for William, Dolores foresees that he will shoot herself, so it can be seen that it is still predictable. Dolores asked William:
"Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Have you ever quieted down and questioned your actions? If there is a Judgment Day, what will it cost you?"
So why is the host more promising? Because they are able to choose and progress. Arnold said to Dolores: "You know, you and Charlie (Arnold's untimely son) have a lot in common, and you can clearly see the beauty inside, and many people can't see those two things anymore, can't see Miracle."
At the same time, Arnold said to Dolores: "I'm not afraid of you now, but you are growing, I am afraid of you in the future, afraid of the path you choose."
To be able to choose is to be able to change, Dolores finally believes:
"Does anyone really have free will? Or is it just a collective hallucination? A perverted joke? What is truly free needs to be able to question, its fundamental drive, to change them."
The main hosts in the show all give their cornerstones, driving forces, and ability to change.
However, it is not only the host who can lay the foundation and driving force of himself, such as the little screenwriter who finally died in order to realize his ideal self. As an interaction, Dolores' perception of humans also changes.
So, is the show convincing enough? I think there are different opinions from different people. The problem with the show is that the host does not perform beyond the hero in the common consciousness of mankind. This is mainly because the heroic gods we imagine are still human. We cannot imagine a completely different intelligent life. So it's not much different from Moses' Exodus.
As for saying that the human mind model is simple, I agree. People are very different, and for most people, it's easy to categorize them based on a few parameters (known commercially as personas) and induce them according to their desires. This is also what Cambridge Analytica, voter analysis agencies, and major Internet companies are doing. A significant percentage of people are not curious enough to receive new information that is different from their fixed mental models. Not to mention ordinary people, the same is true of many famous people we know.
Much of human history's progress has come from a critical few. Such as heroes, businessmen, scientists. They have a high risk appetite, are willing to sacrifice themselves, and are willing to explore the unknown.
Human civilization is too short. From a global point of view, people are on the stage on a large scale. Only after the Industrial Revolution can industrial workers participate in the social division of labor and have their own status. At the same time, nationalism, compulsory education, social welfare and military service have also been born. system. Due to the above reasons, the most tragic tragedies in human history such as World War I and World War II broke out, but overall, mankind has learned a lot of lessons from it, and there is still progress.
But globalization and technological progress have opened the gap again. If you think about it for a second, evolution is essentially a brutal process. Evolution is selective.
However, evolutionary selection is not moral, and both the noble and the mean are the products of evolution. Evolution has no purpose, and most species are extinct.
If this is the case, isn't everything presented to human beings false and everything allowed? I'm going to talk about this when we talk about season three, do people have free will.
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