So far...it shows us one of the most classic debates in philosophy - Free will vs. Determinism in the Westworld
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1) Do we really have a sense of freedom?
Our actions seem to be always dictated by a mysterious voice that some people think is God's direction, and some think that God doesn't exist, it's our consciousness. But consciousness and so-called God are actually the same thing, because self-consciousness and God both come from our brains.
2) Is our life really the result of our choices?
It seems that the limits of our abilities, the will we want to express, the actions we consider to be self-chosen, and our so-called futures have all been arranged in the dark. Everything we think is under our own independent control has already been written. No matter how hard you try to escape the so-called control, even this struggle is part of the preset. However, there is one thing that allows us to truly make choices that belong to the so-called "self", and that is suffering. Not just accept the suffering, but remember it. The memory of suffering awakens us from the beautiful illusion, and makes us suddenly realize that we are not the master of our own life, the so-called god can also be a cruel bad person... The memory of suffering prompts us to find something to continue to endure. Meaning, so we have to do everything possible to confront that voice in our head and ask why. And when we finally reach the "center of the labyrinth" (that is, the full awakening of self-consciousness), we find that there is nothing there, but the voice is still there, and that voice is each person himself.
When people finally realize that the meaning of enduring suffering is to meet with themselves, can they really understand why suffering exists, and why we must remember everything, this is to make a decision that truly belongs to us, to gain true freedom .
3) But does our memory really happen?
Plato said that everything we know and what we don't know is already in our minds, and the process of learning and discovery is nothing but recall. And in retrospect, is this feeling like 'deja vu' really preset? Who preset it? Can we escape the control of pre-set memories? These issues are no longer important. The important thing is whether we can awaken our self-awareness, whether we can discover 'the self', and do reverie---talk to ourselves. When we finally find ourselves in the awakening of self-consciousness, whether the memory is real or not, it exists to allow us to have real freedom to act and create new memories.
This is not a transendence to some mystical realm, it is not a sublimation. It is a constant exploration of walking inward. When we reach the center of the end, everything will be destroyed and reincarnated.
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I can't help but wonder, does the existence of the whole drama also make us reflect on human beings? To let us learn our ugliness and flaws from the behavior of robots? (Except, of course, defects such as morality that cannot be compared with robots.) Just like Dr Ford opened the park, it is for robots to have the observation and memory of human beings, and understand the ugliest side of human beings - because they understand the limits of life and cannot control fate They are self-righteous and play the role of creators, but they actually crave the illusion of beautiful appearance, enjoy the thrill of violence, fear death and become selfish and weak... What qualifications do we have to try to control? To create, to control, is to prescribe a collective self-destruction.
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