Those who can't speak well and those who don't understand are those who have insufficient understanding and knowledge reserves, and cannot appreciate this drama.

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On the ultimate question: the meaning of existence. Watching this show is like looking back at your own life. Are you sure you are not a Host yourself? Are you sure you haven't experienced some déjà vu? Have you ever had the experience of going somewhere for the first time and it felt like deja vu? Have you ever just finished saying a word or doing something, and your subconscious told you that you had foreseen this scene before you said or did it - this scene that never happened, for you That second seems like a repetition? Have you ever experienced a dream that was more real than real? Or in a nightmare knowing you were dreaming and wishing you were awake? Have you ever heard of strange things, unsolved mysteries, incredible miracles? This show tells you that maybe, these dreams, flashbacks, déjà vu, these things that reason tells you to be wild daydreams, and even those miracles you hear about are actually true; and what you think is true. The world is a virtual game, and you are just a storyline in this game! This is the first question that the show answers, the most common ultimate question: the meaning of existence, who you are, where you came from, and where are you going.

In the first few episodes, when Maeve saw the dolls in the hands of the tribal kids were the same as the ones she'd seen in the host recycling bin. The people next to her told her that it was religion! ! Hahahaha, I'm going to let it go and point the question again. This is not to say that, in fact, religion is the clue to the real world. Religion tells us there is another world, and we don't want to believe it. We can't face the fact that we're just a bunch of hosts - we're created by God, so we're limited, just like a program. So we can't go beyond ourselves, we can't change our character, we can't go beyond our destiny. The so-called fate may be just a string of codes. This is the second question that the show answers, what is religion and whether we can believe in it.

Dolores is a programmed robot, so language images beyond her cognition cannot cause associations and reactions in her brain. It's like trying to run a windows program under the IOS system, it's all in vain. . But if the robot is awakened and has wisdom, then she can think and understand the words of her guests, as if Adam ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Dolores is awakening.

The tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden is to humans what wisdom is to robots. At its core is free will. So why did God put this tree in the Garden of Eden and not let humans eat it? Maybe just like the creator of Western Paradise, he created Paradise, but facing these Host robots that only know how to follow the program, it is like facing a group of animals that follow instinct and survive, you can't have a real chat with it, beyond The dialogue that the program understands it cannot understand the feedback, it has its routine, all the reactions are under control, it has no free will. If you live in this paradise, it will be very boring. So after God created the heaven, earth, animals and plants, the only thing God wanted to do was to create man in his image, a wise man, a man with free will. (Genesis 1:26) Yet God wants human beings who have free will but still obey him absolutely. The designers of Western Paradise also have the same hope. They secretly hope that the robot can wake up and have consciousness. At the same time, the managers of the park hope that the robot and everything will be under control in an orderly manner.

So once the robot really has intelligence, what will happen, will it still obey its creator? Then look at humans. Humans are indeed intelligent beings. Humans have free will, but they did not obey his creator God - Adam finally ate the forbidden fruit. The tree of knowledge of good and evil recorded in the Bible is not a real tree, but a symbol. You know you shouldn't eat it, and your program has clearly coded you to obey God and not eat that fruit. However, in the end, because you have free will, you choose to use your own free will. If you eat this fruit, it means that your free will has awakened, and you have become a wise person. The hosts in the play will inevitably awaken, so what will their future be like? What will our future be like? This is the third question of the show, does religion give us the answer? If yes, where did this answer come from and who gave it?

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Westworld quotes

  • Dr. Robert Ford: The hosts are the ones who are free. Free. Here. Under my control.

  • Dolores Abernathy: [to Stubbs] Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world, the disarray. I choose to see the Beauty. To believe there is an order to our days. A purpose. I know things will work out the way they're meant to.

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