West World is a recently
premiered TV show on HBO. It dives deep into what makes us human, and how our
decisions are made. West World is a theme park for the wealthy to play out
their western fantasies at the cost of around $60,000 a day. During this time
the guests are allowed to do anything they want in this park as long as no
other human is harmed. The park is populated with robots otherwise known as
hosts. These hosts have false memories and identities (otherwise known as
roles) planted inside their head. For them, they actually believe that they
live in the old west and that everybody is human. A host can be configured to
play the role of the Sheriff of the town, to being the criminal mastermind with
a bounty on his head. If a host gets killed or damaged, they simply get taken
out of the park and repaired without themselves knowing about it. All their
memories get wiped at the end of the day and they repeat the same cycle.
The show asks the
question if it is not only the hosts that are pre-programmed but the
human guests as well. The question that is brought up near the end of the first
season is if humans are any different. Are we truly making our own choices or
are we destined to follow our “programming” based on our personality? Are we
simply puppets or can we choose our own fate? Unfortunately, this is
a question that is incredibly hard to answer. Since we cannot assess how
we have made decisions before that they have happened, we can never truly know
if we are making them or not. If we attempt to rebel against our normal
personalities, how would we know that it is not how our personalities were in
the first place?
Another topic that the
show touches on is what rights an artificial being has. Is a human life worth
more than an artificial life? Should robots and AI be protected by the law just
as people are? If something can show emotion and intelligence, does that
make it equal to a human? These are very important questions that will need to
be answered in the near future. As science and technology advances, we will
need to make a decision on how humanity addresses this topic. For the show, the
park builds the hosts to mimic how the human body works. There are no wires,
circuit boards, or metal, but instead, flesh and blood just as a
human would have. For the park, this adds an added sense of realism and is
so convincing that some guests have even fallen in love with the hosts. Despite
this, the hosts have no rights. They are programmed to be harmless to the
guests, even in cases of self-defense or protection.
West world is a show
that is very rich in philosophical questions regarding what we are and why we
decide to do what we do. Below I have linked a video going into further detail
about rights of artificial beings:
Link to first installment:
http://cophilosophy.blogspot.com/2017/04/beyond-good-and-evil-william-deaver.html
Link to comments:
https://cophilosophy.blogspot.com/2017/05/language-and-philosophy.html?showComment=1493785998288#c4652511789116504911
https://cophilosophy.blogspot.com/2017/05/section-10-installment-2-neil-degrasse.html?showComment=1493786507932#c2119722525376328901
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