(Part 2) Top products from r/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)

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.

It's not a semantic argument: It's a technical one. There is no such thing as a "neutral accent" from an objective linguistic perspective. Different dialects are viewed by society as neutral or as having greater or lesser prestige, but that's a function of social pressures, not of the structure of the language itself. A "standard dialect" of a language is not some sort of Ur Ancestor from which all other dialects of that language descend; it is standard merely as a result of who speaks it, and it shifts over time just as other dialects do.

So, yes, colloquially people refer to a "standard" or mainstream accent as being "no" accent. But that's exactly my point: The line in the episode reflects a typical layperson's view of linguistics, which in many ways is demonstrably contrary to linguistic fact.

If you'd like to do some reading on the subject, American English: Dialects and Variation by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling is a good starting place.

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.

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

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

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.”

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intelect

Great short read.

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").

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.

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

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

Goes without saying: https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Origin-Consciousness-Breakdown-Bicameral-Mind/0395563526/

https://www.amazon.com/Mating-Mind-Sexual-Choice-Evolution/dp/038549517X

It's the only explanation for State of Fear.

Because it's easier to spray a piece of plastic with bleach than rinsing your eyes out with bleach solution... One leaves you still able to see and pee.

edit: Here, take a look at this antiseptic on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EV1D79A/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I don't have the bottle in front of me, but it warns of hearing loss if it gets in your ears, blindness if it gets in your eyes, and I assume burning if it gets on your genitals.

Damn you - I was going to post 1 page a day from this book for the next 100 days.

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.

If you think that scientists are in a consensus about free-will not existing, then you haven't been reading enough! Also, Roger Penrose is considered one of the finest mathematicians currently living, so the fact that he doesn't have an answer to this is far more interesting to me than random internet user #1001.

Also, Philosophy has a huge amount to bring to the discussion, the arguments made by neuro-scientists have many fundamental flaws and weaknesses. Science still has a lot to learn from Philosophy, especially in the way we discuss elements of the mind which cannot easily be described and defined.

Try reading this book: https://www.amazon.com/Free-Science-Hasnt-Disproved-Will/dp/0199371628/?tag=stno-20

There's a good article about this book and why recent experiments don't really prove or disprove free-will at all here: http://www.strangenotions.com/why-science-hasnt-disproved-free-will-a-review-of-alfred-meles-free/

There are also other neuroscientists saying we DO have free-will. See here: https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2013/03/neuroscientist-says-humans-are-wired-free-will

Like I said, if you pick and choose your sources, some people argue in favor of free-will, but there are just as many people poking holes in experiments that were done, and arguing on the other side of the argument that we do have free-will.