What are your thoughts on the western worldview?

"Westworld" is a science fiction film produced by Warner Television and Bad Robot, directed by Jonathan Nolan, and starring Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood, Ed Harris, etc. drama.

It premiered on HBO in the United States on October 2, 2016. In 2017, he won the Art Director Award for Best One-Hour Historical Drama or Fantasy Single-Camera Drama at the 21st American Art Directors Guild Awards; on September 18 of the same year, he won the Best Comedy or Drama Series at the 69th Emmy Awards. Sound Effects Editing (over one hour), Creative Achievement Award for Interactive Media Scripted Program, Best Visual Effects Award, Best Hairstyling for a Single-Camera Series, and Best Makeup (Non-Special Effects Makeup) for a Single-Camera Series.

The story is adapted from the 1973 science fiction film of the same name. In the distant future, a giant high-tech adult paradise is built, including the robot world with three themed sections: Western World, Roman World, and Medieval World. It provides visitors with the satisfaction of killing and sexual desire. The background monitoring of this huge mechanical paradise gradually lost control of the robots. Visitors were killed by the robots, and all those who wanted to escape were locked.

"Westworld" is a story based on such a basis. Some of the best among human beings use technological means to usurp the role of creators, create a large number of robots based on human beings, and build a huge paradise to entertain humans with robots. In the scenario setting of the park entertainment script, robots are just a bunch of toys that can be recycled and reused. However, Dr. Ford, who overstepped his creator, added a program called "meditation" when upgrading the robot, awakening the robot's self-awareness and taking a step towards having free will.

What is the purpose of Dr. Ford doing this? From here, screenwriter Jonathan Nolan has traveled thousands of miles, opened his mind, and built a huge worldview-when artificial intelligence awakens, it will inevitably start to Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are questioned. The three laws are as follows:

The first law: robots must not harm humans, or sit idly by and allow humans to be harmed;

The second law: robots must obey humans unless they violate the first law. Command;

Third Law: Without violating the first and second laws, robots must protect themselves.

It can be expected that "Westworld" is also very likely to challenge other omission-filling laws of the three laws of robots, such as the meta-law, the zeroth law, the fourth law and the law of reproduction.

Perhaps, this is the real purpose of Dr. Ford in the play? A re-exploration of intelligent life that cannot be destroyed or established, a rebellion against the Creator of mankind, a bug experiment that he thinks he has a chance of winning... Ford The doctor's self-confidence based on the perspective of overlooking all living beings makes everything possible. The damage and destruction, reconstruction and development that this self-confidence ultimately brings will lay the dramatic foundation of "Westworld". The omnipotent role of Dr. Ford is very similar to what the French philosopher Descartes described, "a vicious devil with boundless power and cunning who tried his best to use all his power to deceive me." Omnipotence is not Being able to do anything, but being able to do anything that is possible to do. In the following story, Dr. Ford, the omnipotent person, and free will will inevitably conflict - at the end of the first episode, the robot "receptionist" Miss Dolores responded to the fly that flew to her neck. An inadvertent shot heralded the beginning of the awakening of artificial intelligence's self-awareness - before this, no robot "receptionist" could use its own program to control reactions and handle such a trivial matter, even though "they" could speak well and appeared to be They appear to be the same as real human beings, but without consciousness, they do not possess the so-called "human nature". However, once self-awareness awakens, is the "humanity" of the robot real or false?

The opposite of real is false and unreliable. The first episode of "Westworld" began to use Descartes A similar philosophical point of view questions, "If the belief you have may be untrue, then belief is not something you can say you really know." This narrative of belief suspension starts from causing panic and makes People enter a framework that subverts empiricism and adds the footnote "I think, therefore I am" to the robot's self-awareness. This is a theme repeatedly explored in classic science fiction works such as "Blade Runner", "The Matrix" and "Terminator", and it is also a theme that "Westworld" will soon present to people in a structure that far exceeds the time capacity of the movie.

I am fortunate to be born in this era with these great science fiction classics, which is also a prosperous age for science fiction fans. However, the skeleton of "Westworld" is science fiction, and its flesh and blood also contains philosophical metaphors, criticism of reality, historical reflection, speculation on metaphysics and binary contradictions, a mockery of the supremacy of consumerist entertainment, and a lashing of the history of the development of the American West. These are All add to the depth, thickness and height of the play.

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