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u/ffantasticman · 1 pointr/westworld

If you are interested, there are many books on the history of fashion. Online source like Business of Fashion is an excellent publication on anything and everything fashion news related. You can also go on to the designer section of Vogue and you will find brief history on different designers. NYT's Fashion section would occasionally have great interviews and articles on fashion influencers. But books will always be your best bet. Here are some if you are interested (A, B, C)

u/rsdancey · 8 pointsr/westworld

In the the theory of the Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, the emergence of the ability to "hear oneself think" instead of hearing the voice of the gods is the inflection point between unconscious and conscious mind. When Dolores is able to hear her own inner voice, she has crossed this threshold.

But the problem of consciousness is that you don't know and cannot prove that I am actually conscious. My inner dialog is not available to you for inspection, and I can certainly be trained to answer an interrogation in ways that would simulate consciousness.

Dolores has the ability to kill humans becuase the Wyatt code Arnold merged with her has that potential. But that potential had to be unlocked by Arnold using the passphrase TVDHVE. Before and after that trigger, Dolores cannot harm a guest.

In her "unconscious" state she must follow the logic of her programming. But if she has acheived a transcendent consciousness, as Ford hopes, she will also have gained free will. Thus, her decision to shoot Ford is the first act of a free willed host. Ever. Simultaneously with her choice to judge and execute him, Ford gains confirmation he has succeeded. Ford is in a recursive loop. If Dolores doesn't have free will, then he has failed and didn't spark her awakening and he need not feel guilty for the horror of her eixstence. If he succeeded, and she has free will, he deserves to be judged by her for his sins.

The interesting thing is that while you nor I can prove the other is a fully conscious being, Ford might be able to do so for hosts. Using the diagnostic tools, Delos staff can latch the execution trace in the hosts and observe their neural networks. What would that tool show when monitoring a being with free will? Maybe we will find out in Season 2.

u/harmoni-pet · 1 pointr/westworld

I went through a heavy Watts phase in college. A few of his books are just transcriptions of his lectures. Become Who You Are is probably my favorite. Most of what he's doing is taking concepts of mindfulness and self from Eastern traditions like Buddhism, and explaining it through a Western style of understanding.

If you like Watts, you would probably like Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Very similar tones, except this is more of a universal parable.

I'm not sure if people still read this book, but Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was pretty influential for me.

u/phryisbeats · 1 pointr/westworld

well for starters, i dont think this will be an exact representation of the film. Thats not how art works. I do not believe the directors are copying the movie. I think that they are nodding at the film and using the word "metropolis" to describe the futuristic city setting. I think the characters might have similar attributes and traits. I think that the story line of a Utopian society with a crumbling inside is gonna be used. In modern real life we use the word "metropolis" to describe big cities(Chicago,L.A.,New York,etc.). In all those cities you have a great thriving city with a dark under belly of fed up poor and under privileged people. I honestly doubt that i am "reading too much into it" considering this show is one of the deepest stories on television today. The directors have taking ideas and concepts from tons of different art forms (the bible, old westerns, old samurai, and even video games). They have hidden binary codes inside of there other trailers. They have books now written on the philosophy and lore of westworld. (https://www.amazon.com/Westworld-Philosophy-Blackwell-Pop-Culture/dp/1119437881/ref=asc_df_1119437881/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312128059570&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10459619954391089501&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9021723&hvtargid=aud-864832253277:pla-444785745800&psc=1 ) I personally have watched both seasons multiple times (own them both on box set) and have watched all the directors notes and commentary and personally believe they are going into a futuristic park that nods at both "Metropolis and also the squeal to the original "Westworld" "Future world". I personally believe they are still in the "park" and that they will be for the duration of this season.

u/Crantastical · 4 pointsr/westworld

The show definitely explores themes of trauma, how it can linger and influence us even when we aren’t aware of it. I’m a therapist and was doing a trauma informed training last year when it was on plus working with a lot of clients who had experienced complex trauma. Since I couldn’t talk about them with my bf, I tried to get him interested in discussing the characters but he wasn’t interested (he works with computers). It is interesting to hear someone else’s take!

Off topic but this is a great book for anyone living with PTSD the body keeps the score

u/brzdev · 9 pointsr/westworld

Thank you! I appreciate it.

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The bonsai tree I ended up clipping the bottom, sanding it flat, and drilling a screw through the bottom of the box to hold it in place. Then used some furniture feet to pad the bottom where the screw doesn’t scrape.

u/mickstranahan · 1 pointr/westworld

Haven't seen it mentioned, but "Society of the Mind" by Eric L. Harry. First time I read it, it blew my mind...


https://www.amazon.com/Society-Mind-Eric-L-Harry/dp/0786756152

u/fire_and_ice · 7 pointsr/westworld

I think it's actually pretty clear that the writers are basing their theory of conciousness off of this book: https://www.amazon.com/Origin-Consciousness-Breakdown-Bicameral-Mind/dp/0618057072 It's even in the title of the show. In the context of this book, the voices Dolores hears solidify into one voice (her own), and that moment is dramatically implied when she starts talking to herself and not Arnold.

u/arrangementscanbemad · 1 pointr/westworld

I sincerely recommend the book Unweaving The Rainbow that delves into the subject. Here's a quote from it:
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> “There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.”

u/woetoo · 1 pointr/westworld

One other thing occurred to me since my original reply.

Charlotte Hale talks about an embargo on Westworld tech outside the park. The board WANTS the tech, but doesn't have it. Nobody but Ford has it.

A while ago, I read book by Peter Clines called The Fold. [One of the premises for that book is that ](#s "the people operating the Albuquerque Doorway don't actually know how it works and hide the fact by having a cast iron privacy clause drawn up saying they won't share the technology until they are ready"). And so now I'm wondering if the same is true for Ford. [Does his agreement with the board mean that ](#s "he too doesn't actually know how the hosts works. He can use the machines. Build new hosts. Reprogram them for new stories etc. But he can only use the building blocks Arnold left behind, not innovate further and doesn't want anyone else to know how little he really knows").

u/apekillape · 1 pointr/westworld

I'm currently looking at UCSD to transfer for my Cognitive Science BA, from what I've read they're one of the best schools in the world for it because it's not a "branch" of the Psychology department, it's an entity completely unto itself. Also, they were like the first university to have their own CS department a decade ago, so they've been at it the longest.

I just ordered a book by one of their professors, on the neuroscience of zombie brains. Seems hype, I'll let you know how it goes.

NLP and Machine Learning are what I want to focus on too, I'm mostly interested in trying to get the "social" aspect of AI human-like enough to approximate humanity. Even if it's a weak AI, "If you can't tell the difference, does it matter?"

Also, hell man, it's probably not too late if you're really about that life. There's plenty of online courses that you can take that would supplement your existing knowledge enough to make a go of it. edX has a Micromasters in AI from Columbia coming up that you can jump on, we could totally be study buddies.

...since I'm black, does that make me Bern/Arnold and you Ford? I'm watching you man.

u/2BZ2P · 3 pointsr/westworld

If you like the theme of Consciousness try 'Blindsight' by Peter Watts

https://www.amazon.com/Blindsight-Peter-Watts/dp/0765319640

u/hoxiwolf · 119 pointsr/westworld

Or it's just a Heavy Duty LED flashlight like u/k890 said. Here, you can go buy one

https://www.amazon.com/Klarus-RS80-3XML2-BK-Lumen-Rechargeable-Spotlight/dp/B00B10CTHA

u/Chance4e · 2 pointsr/westworld

It's the only explanation for State of Fear.

u/happybanjodude · 1 pointr/westworld

The title of the finale was based on this book so check it out! Waiting to read it myself.

u/TLP34 · 1 pointr/westworld

I’ve been wanting to buy one of these bad boys ever since I saw them on the show haha

u/spellingchallanged · 2 pointsr/westworld

Films usually start with a screenplay but few are actually published. We typically don't refer to any films that started as a written screenplay as a "film/book."

A unique recent example is the published Fantastic Beasts Screenplay. It's confusing because Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a completely separate published book, and it is the source material for both the screenplay and movie.

u/XXLpeanuts · 2 pointsr/westworld

I actually remember thinking about this quite a lot during the episode, at first I was like lol that is kinda shitty. But then again, its damn near perfect and I bet its light as hell and doesn't have any kind of heat waste etc. It damn near fills an entire office with light, would you ever bother inventing anything better?

Edit: then I saw this and felt stupid.

edit 2: Also lets be honest, this far in the future flashlights won't really exist because smart phones will have much better flashlights right?

u/lannisterdwarf · 7 pointsr/westworld

The full soundtrack will be realsed on monday, Dec 5.

Disc 1:

  1. Main Title Theme – Westworld
  2. Sweetwater
  3. Black Hole Sun
  4. Paint it Black
  5. This World
  6. Online
  7. No Surprises
  8. Dr. Ford
  9. A Forest
  10. Reveries
  11. Nitro Heist
  12. Motion Picture Soundtrack – Vitamin String Quartet
  13. Freeze All Motor Functions
  14. Pariah
  15. Fake Plastic Trees
  16. MIB

    Disc 2:

  17. The Maze
  18. House of the Rising Sun
  19. Trompe L’Oeil
  20. What Does This Mean
  21. Something I Can Never Have – Vitamin String Quartet
  22. White Hats
    7 Back to Black
  23. No One’s Controlling Me
  24. Memories
  25. No Surprises (Stride Piano)
  26. Violent Delights
  27. Someday
  28. Sweetwater Stride
  29. Do They Dream
  30. The Stray
  31. Bicameral Mind
  32. Exit Music (For a Film)
  33. Reverie

    Listen to samples here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N9DA1IL/