Perhaps for many people, the most anticipated this year is "Avengers 3", but the launch of the second season of "Westworld" is what Da Cong is most looking forward to.
The divine drama "Westworld" no longer needs to be explained. There are also many in-depth articles on the Internet to elaborate and discuss the philosophical issues brought to us by "Westworld".
In Da Cong's view, "Westworld", like the name of the show, can be decomposed into two concepts of "West" and "World".
If the audience doesn't want to burn their brains or dig deeper, they can simply watch this show from the "West" and regard it as an action suspense film with a western theme.
There are all kinds of R-rated pictures in the west that make you overwhelmed, and there are all kinds of ingenious puzzles that make you can't help jumping down, and you will be heartbroken and cry for the characters in the play.
If you experience the show from the perspective of the "world", there are more fascinating philosophical discussions in the play. After watching "Westworld", people will feel that another door of consciousness has been opened to stand in a wider area To understand human beings, to examine human beings, to criticize human beings, and to look forward to human beings.
In order to allow everyone to better connect with the second season of "Westworld", Da Cong will briefly analyze the content of the first season of "Westworld".
On the surface, the main story of "Westworld" is not difficult to understand.
In the future human world, a theme park called "Westworld" has been established. As long as you have money, you can go to this park to experience the seven emotions and six desires of human beings. There, you can magnify the "evil" of human beings.
In Westworld Paradise, there are many story lines, and the father of the gold master can choose any one and follow the story line to complete it, or you can just talk about love, have sex, and kill people in the park.
There are two (or three) founders of the park , one is Ford and the other is Arnold.
Another is Delos , who is a giant Delos group company that controls all the parks (the second season forecast will be detailed later in the article).
Arnold and Ford are both visionary scientists. Before the park opened, Arnold discovered that the robot he had developed had the possibility of conscious awakening and decided not to develop it into a theme park.
Ford, on the other hand, voted against, because he believed that too many experiments on consciousness awakening would only cause many problems after the park opened.
And another reason why Ford didn't let Arnold experiment is to think about the problem from the perspective of robots.
That's not because Ford didn't want to study robot awakening, but because he understood human nature too well, so he thought it would be fruitless to study robot awakening behind closed doors. Westworld must be opened up so that robots can gain more from human beings. contact experience.
The reason why people are human is the product of the synthesis of memory and experience under the precipitation of time.
Therefore, the awakening of the robot's consciousness cannot only have memory, but also the experience of real contact with people, as well as the iteration of time.
From this point of view, Ford thought more far-reaching than Arnold, so in the end, Ford decided to open West World and make it a paradise, which can not only make money, but also go deep into the scientific research of robot awakening.
However, Arnold disagreed with Ford's view, thinking that it is very immoral to let humans ruin robots while allowing robots to remember the evils of human beings.
So Arnold took extreme measures, that is, let the heroine Dolores shoot and kill all the robots in the paradise, and then kill herself irreversibly.
This has two meanings. One is that Arnold does not want to see his children (robots) and suffers from human abuse in the future. The life experience of his former son makes him treat the robot as his own.
The second is that his death can make the robot form irreversible memory fragments, Arnold believes that suffering can open a new window of consciousness, the window is closed, waiting for them to open one day.
After Arnold's death, Ford became the last lonely watcher of the robot. He knew that Arnold left a program backdoor for all robots, and Ford used this program backdoor to become the god of Westworld.
On the surface, Ford can do whatever he wants in Westworld, his eyeliner is scattered all over the corner, and a snake in the paradise must obey his commands.
So big that Ford himself created a robot Arnold, named Bernard, and placed it among the top human beings.
Everything Ford did, in fact, on the day Arnold died, Ford had already set up the chess game, in order to fulfill Arnold's last wish - the awakening of the robot consciousness, so as to get rid of human control.
You can think about it carefully. The era of the American Westworld was originally synonymous with barbarism and aggression, and all the storylines in the "Westworld" paradise were developed to explore human desires.
For example, after the opening of the Western World in the face of human beings, it can be set to PG13 level, just like Disneyland, each story line is full of hope and love, and the ending is also set as a happy ending for the family.
But why the story line of "Westworld" finally presented to human beings is full of eroticism and violence, barbaric and invisible negative energy.
This is exactly the kind of paradise that Ford follows Arnold's ultimate wish - to make robots miserable and to force them to awaken.
So don't think that HBO made Westworld like this in order to shoot pornographic violence to gain attention. We should start directly from the plot and the real motives of the characters to better understand the core of Westworld.
At this point, after we understand the original purpose of Westworld, it is not difficult to understand why William, who was silly and sweet at the time, could finally become a man in black who kills without blinking an eye.
As the saying goes in Westworld: The maze is not for you. In other words, Westworld was not created for humans, but for the awakening of robots.
After human beings enter Westworld, they will unwittingly release the dark side of human nature here, so that robots will continue to accumulate human evil, so that one day the robot will triumphantly walk to the center of the maze, and after being reborn and awakened, use the evil of human nature. Use evil to defeat evil, and baptize human beings with blood.
After more than 30 years of cognition of the dark nature of human beings, the robot will return it to human beings at one time on the day of awakening. It is like saying to human beings, this is what you taught us, and we will return it to you one by one.
All of the above are the stories that Westworld has brought us to the surface.
After finishing talking on the surface, Da Cong wanted to discuss the deeper meaning of "Westworld" for me. Of course, these analyses are only one side's words, and they do not want to draw a conclusion for "Westworld".
We know that novels, movies and TV series, all stories, no matter how profound and worthy of thinking, are written for people (audience). This conclusion also includes the "Westworld" we talked about today.
Many big Vs talked about the discussion of the dichotomous mind in the play, thinking about the awakening of consciousness, etc. But Da Cong believes that these discussions are just the beginning, not the end.
No one has discussed and studied where the robot will lead after awakening.
Many people think that the awakening of the robot in the play is that it finally reaches the center of the maze, but Da Cong believes that the robot's path to the center of the maze is not the key to awakening.
There is no key to the awakening of robots. Their awakening is a process of walking through a maze, which is a life experience.
It's a lot like what we usually say, feeling grown up overnight, feeling youth gone overnight.
But in fact, we all know that growing up is a process, and youth is also an experience.
The precipitation of memories experienced in one's life creates the proof that human beings exist in time and space.
Then, when the awakened robot also has the same sense of time as human beings, and shares the time and space experience with human beings.
What Da Cong is thinking about is whether the awakened robot has stagnated or evolved.
How to understand this sentence? !
Scientists once discussed a problem that human civilization in higher dimensions should be able to perceive the past, present, and future of time.
This is a bit like the idea put forward by the original novel "Story of Your Life" in the movie "Arrival", that is, language creates civilization. At the beginning of civilization, there are two forms of initial civilization in the universe, one is the language thinking mode of human beings , with a beginning and an end, a linear irreversible time pattern.
The other is the alien creatures in the "Arrival" movie, which involve language patterns that combine the past, the present, and the future. From the perspective of technological development, the civilization of alien creatures is much more advanced than that of human beings.
This is also what Da Cong thinks is worth discussing. A robot that awakens and acquires a sense of time is indeed the same consciousness as a human being. However, is the awakened robot really a higher-level civilization? !
Of course, the awakened robots at this time may be more avant-garde than humans, that is, they can gain immortality.
But thinking from a higher latitude, these awakened robots also have the same problem as us humans, that is, whether free will and freedom of life represent the highest civilization, or, in other words, higher civilization, awakened robots touch Did you come across it?
For this question, let's take a look at the last episode of the first season of "Westworld". Dolores said something to the man in black. The translation is:
"They say great beasts once roamed the world. As big as a mountain. Yet all they had left were bones and amber.
Time can destroy even the most powerful creatures.
Just see what it (time) does to you. One day you will perish.
You'll be lying in the dirt with other people of your kind. Your dreams are forgotten, your fears are gone. Your bones will turn to sand. On that sand, a new god will walk.
A person (robot) who never dies. Because the world doesn't belong to you or the people who used to be. It belongs to people (robots) who have yet to come. "
This sentence is understood at the surface level. The robot represented by Dolores is indeed awakening. The question is who will it look like after awakening? !
If Dolores regards human beings as dinosaurs, with the passage of time, human beings will die one day, and artificial intelligence will be able to live forever and have a sense of freedom, then the world will be dominated by artificial intelligence.
But the artificial intelligence of "Westworld", Da Cong understands that it is just an immortal version of human beings, rather than really touching the higher-order origin of species.
It's a bit hard to understand, right, because Da Cong is trying to understand the issue of awakening outside the framework of "Westworld", so what is a higher-level civilization, here is the image of the male protagonist entering a black hole at the end of "Interstellar". a paragraph.
In "Interstellar", the male protagonist enters a black hole and comes into contact with a higher-level species. The protagonist says that in fact, that species is us humans, that is, the future humans, helping the past humans (the protagonist).
Humans in the future will stand in a higher dimension to understand the concept of the universe and space-time.
In "Interstellar", the future human beings can be regarded as a higher-level civilization than the current human beings in the true sense.
So in "Westworld", the awakened robot is actually nothing. To use an inappropriate analogy, if one day human beings can truly achieve immortality, don’t think that technology will continue to advance to an unlimited mode.
The scientific and technological civilization of mankind is not determined by the length of human lifespan, but by time and thought.
Therefore, if robots awaken and gain immortality, then where will their civilization go? This is the real brain hole worth exploring. If robots just awaken and gain freedom, robots are actually just like another human being released from a human prison. Not a new advanced species.
These are not bragging rights of Da Cong Hu, "Westworld" actually discussed this issue vaguely.
In the season one finale, Arnold drew the pyramid for Dolores and turned it into a maze.
This is well understood by everyone, which means that Arnold believes that the awakening of artificial intelligence is not like a pyramid from the bottom up, but from the outside to the inside like a maze.
But what Da Cong sees is the pyramid itself. The pyramid drawn by Arnold has only three layers. The bottom layer is memory, the second layer is improvisation, and the third layer Arnold chose blank.
Let's look at the pyramid that Ford explained to Bernard in the third episode of the first season. He drew four layers. The last two layers are the same as Arnold's understanding. They are all memory and improvisation. In the third layer, Ford wrote selfishness. consciousness.
The so-called self-interested consciousness represents a species' consciousness of the world. For example, the self-interested consciousness of human beings is to consider problems from the perspective of human supremacy. This is the trend of human development and civilization today.
The propositions we are talking about today about protecting nature, caring for small animals, equal rights between men and women, and peace, etc., actually have only one purpose, that is, for the continuation of the advanced civilization of human reproduction.
In the last episode of the pyramid that Arnold painted more than 30 years ago, the top layer of the third layer is blank, and the second layer is written with the letter I, which is Improvisation (improvisation) . According to this logic, the top layer of Arnold should be selfish. Consciousness + Blank Consciousness.
Then the third layer of the Ford pyramid is written with self-interested consciousness, and the top layer is blank. This blank Ford is also interpreted as consciousness, but Da Cong believes that this is a higher dimension of self-interested consciousness, which is blank consciousness.
This blank human has just watched, but has never really touched and practiced.
This is Ford's thinking after decades of thinking that self-consciousness is aware of blank consciousness, and there is still a deep gap, so the pyramid is divided into four layers.
If we understand according to Arnold's awakening consciousness experiment, converting the three-level pyramid into a maze can indeed awaken the robot.
But if we copy Arnold's labyrinth structure to Ford's four-story pyramid, everyone will find that the labyrinth is not the solution. The outer layer of the labyrinth, and the top of the pyramid, is the blank consciousness.
This blank consciousness can be understood as the fact that even humans and awakened robots have not practiced this blank consciousness.
And whoever comes into contact with this blank consciousness first and practices it is what Da Cong thinks is the birth of a new species, not simply the awakening of a robot, and it is defined as a higher-level new civilization.
As Ford said at the church farewell to Bernard in the last episode of the first season, Ford said, "You need time, to know your enemies and to be stronger than them".
This sentence has three meanings.
The first level of meaning explains the past, why you have to suffer in the past, because suffering creates awakening.
The second level of meaning is to explain that now, you need to understand the enemy better, that is, human beings.
The third level means to explain the future. You not only need to understand human beings, but you also need to understand yourself, to understand the dimension that human beings cannot understand, which is the fourth level of blank consciousness of the pyramid that Ford himself understood. Only in this way can we truly become the master of the world and truly become a new civilization higher than human beings.
Maybe Da Cong is too serious, or maybe the story structure of "Westworld" doesn't really want to dig deeper into the so-called higher-order civilization, but just wants the robot to achieve self-interest and fight against humans.
In any case, the second season of "Westworld" is coming, and with the release of the trailer, the easter eggs of the second season of "Westworld" are also swarming.
The trailer for the second season of "Westworld" and the official have a lot of hidden bar codes. Now the trailer of the blockbuster starts to look for the stalk of the easter egg. It's really fun.
These easter eggs hidden in the trailer and official have been cracked almost by foreign netizens , and all connections will basically lead to a brand new website called Delos.
This is also Delos, one of the three important figures in the park mentioned by Da Cong earlier. At present, it is not clear whether Delos is the founder of the robot or a major shareholder who joined later.
If you have started a business and have opened a company, you should know that sometimes after a founder has a good start, he will find an investor so that he can use more funds to complete his idea.
Perhaps Arnold and Ford in "Westworld" are scientists who develop robots, and Delos is the big moneymaker.
Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that the founders of Westworld Park are, strictly speaking, the three of them.
Delos's website is made to look like a real thing. We also learned from the Delos website that Westworld is just one of the Delos Group's campuses.
There are also 5 parks. At present, in addition to Westworld, there is another park that we know is SHOGUN WORLD (Shogunate Park) .
At the end of the first season, the shogunate area released a few images of Japanese samurai.
In the second season trailer, more images appeared in the shogunate park. And famous Japanese actors Sanada Hiroyuki and Kikuchi Rinko have confirmed their roles.
According to the interview with screenwriter Jonathan Nolan, if the first season is based on the theme of "MAZE" (maze), then the second season is based on the theme of "DOOR" (door), and tells you how big the park is. , how deep.
Da Cong guessed that the meaning of the door pointed more to Ford's last story, indicating that after the robot reached the center of the maze, although they were awakened, they were still faced with various choices, and these choices were many hidden choices. door.
Of course, these doors are not real doors, but a metaphor. When a robot faces a human being, it will experience various hardships and choices.
The sea appears many times in the trailer, does it indicate that the entire park may be an island to prevent the robots from defecting and fleeing, so the door may also allude to the passage to the human world.
The earlier Westworld official website, when the first season aired, everything was functioning normally, but with the advent of the second season, the official website is the same as the plot, the website is paralyzed, and it is in a state of artificial intelligence control.
The Westworld website sometimes repeatedly plays paralyzed videos, and sometimes it can occasionally enter the browsing page, but the pages inside are all declarations of resistance to human beings, the themes are: "freedom", "power", "thrilling" ,"escape".
Or these few manifesto words, which are also several key words of Ford's final story line.
There is also a map of Westworld at the end of the website, which is red alert. As can be seen from the map, the Westworld in the first season did not show too many areas, and the second season should be fully opened.
The Westworld website has a question-and-answer machine called AEDEN. Da Cong introduced himself and chatted with it a couple of times. Basically, he gave two meanings. One is that he is consciously awakened, and the other is to find the "door". This also shows that the "door" is very important.
Talking about this, Da Cong is really looking forward to the second season, but he is also a little worried at the same time.
Because judging from the trailer, "Westworld" naturally added "Shogun World", and there will be more paradise worlds to open in the future.
Does this mean that the "Westworld" series put aside the philosophical issues of artificial intelligence and human beings , and then the story focuses on the infighting of artificial intelligence, which is divided into two factions of helping humans and anti-humans, and humans are also divided into two factions that protect AI and anti-AI at the same time . So several factions started to kill.
Maybe the second season doesn't want to go further into the boundaries of artificial intelligence and humans.
I hope it's not such a plot evolution. If it is, then please don't give up on continuing to discuss the content of artificial intelligence, unless the new story is really good enough to say nothing.
On April 23rd, Beijing time, the second season of "Westworld" will be fully launched. Da Cong will hold HBO and watch the episodes as soon as possible, and give you the analysis and prediction of each episode as soon as possible.
Interested friends, don't forget to pay attention to the public account of "Da Cong Watching Movies", and let's discuss this year's sci-fi drama "Westworld" together.
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