From ancient times, man's quest for freedom has been akin to man's quest for beauty, traveling through the process of taking a ruler to measure, to finding beauty in the mind. In philosophers, strong determinists, libertarians, and compatibilists have their own interpretations of freedom. And in the movie, the loss of free will of human beings is due to the existence of the Loboan system - the writers through the system, the use of big data to predict the future trajectory of each individual, the edge of the society of the threatening, stray, one by one to capture, so as to slow down the time of the extinction of the human species.
The prediction of the Loboan system is fundamentally a hindrance to the chances of those at the bottom moving upward through their own endeavors, allowing people to enjoy the joy of false hope in their struggles, and ultimately to move unknowingly toward a pre-written sinking.
In fact, the use of advanced science and technology to deprive human beings of the power of freedom has long since ceased to be a figment of the imagination of science fiction movies.
The United States in 2012 to 2015 in 10 police departments to do through the big data to predict the crime of the experiment, the results of the police to rejoice - by the big data to predict the crime of two thirds of the real happened, but also the police also through the use of big data to improve the chances of catching suspects.
It's easy to see that advanced science and technology, while allowing humans to benefit from it, also allows us to think in ways that allow our choices to be predicted. This leads to the fact that if we easily express our will in life, personal privacy will be constantly leaked out, our life will be in the state of being designed by the big data, and if we in order to cover their own nature, in life, careful words and actions, involuntarily make a lot of choices, then the individual will inevitably become a reality of the puppet, and slowly lose the sense of authenticity of the birth of a human being.
At the beginning of the last century, Yan Yangchu regarded "freedom from ignorance" as the "fifth freedom";
decades later, Solzhenitsyn noticed that human beings should have the right to be uninformed. Freedom from the dumping of information" was called the "sixth freedom";
So in the 21st century, when slogans written on paper or painted on walls are not enough to shake the public's vision, should we define the "seventh freedom"? "seventh freedom" - "the freedom not to be predicted by big data tracking"?
In Season 1, the Westworld theme park was populated with simulated greeters who provided a variety of services to visitors, were given a fixed story line to explore, and were given all the human senses and emotions of the characters they were playing in order to fulfill their secret desires.
Outside the park is an orderly life governed by morality and law, while inside the park is filled with the helpless screams and futile resistance of the receptionists, and the brutal killings and casual sexual encounters of the rich participants.
However, in Season 3, when the people outside the park try to break the predictions and hold of Big Data and take control of absolute free will, all civilization and order is shattered, and the city begins to go to ruin, with people fighting and killing each other, destroying the streets, and looting the stores ......
Having absolute free will Human beings, like the boy in the Tower of Babel who is full of high creativity and casual hedonism, expose the evil nature of human nature and the desire for violence.
Milton's Paradise Lost says, "God gave man free will."
Instead of free will being God's noblest gift to mankind, it is God's strictest test of mankind.
Human beings have been tested time and time again, and they have been able to establish morality, formulate laws, and create the order and organization of the existing world. Obviously, by abandoning the inherent order and organization, the modern human being will be no different from the primitive human being with animalistic nature. If free will is established purely on the basis of ignorance and unawareness, unenlightened freedom becomes the goal to be pursued, and doing as one pleases becomes the only law that guides human behavior, and the result is bound to be disastrous.
"In this world, you can be whatever the fuck you want."
Perhaps next season, Delores will be able to create a new world, but these AIs, who seem to have free will, will continue to be the only ones to do so. In order to establish order, they will inevitably continue to mimic human-derived ways, and ultimately, they will have to emulate humans in defining sins, dividing rewards, and planning hierarchies. If the Loboan system at this point is just a sign of the peak of human perversion and centralization, then I believe that one day the society created by Delores will face the same dilemma.
After all, social change isn't simply a matter of species replacement, and the world doesn't begin to move in a good direction simply because an antagonist disappears. How to maintain a balance between freedom and constraint, and what are the values and boundaries of the existence of free will, the answers to these questions seem far from being obtained at the expense of the extinction of traditional societies.
Plato used a literary narrative to propose the idea of the "cave metaphor"--that there are some small people who are bound hand and foot as if they were prisoners and can only face the back wall of the cave, and there is a pile of fire and a low wall behind them. They can only see a fire and a low wall behind them, and can only see the dummies made of wood and stone cast on the back wall. They think that the shadows are the real thing, until one of them breaks free from the ropes and walks out of the cave to see the world as it really is, and then realizes that what he saw before was all false.
A scene from the play is comparable: the receptionists who thought they were free saw the illusion of "Eden" in front of them, and scrambled towards the entrance, but they didn't know that there was a thousand-foot cliff in front of them, and at the moment they stepped into the "Eden", all of their memories were lost. At the moment they stepped into the "Garden of Eden", all of their impractical love, hot ideals, along with the collapse of the body into a string of cold numbers, into the control center of the receiver.
I don't want to simply define this sad scene in the name of technology, rather, I prefer to regard it as advice, that is, do not blindly pursue a certain solidified ideal of life, do not blindly believe in the universal truth, everyone has the right to choose their own life path, everyone also has their own beliefs.
At least, in the so-called "Garden of Eden", I have to ask myself whether it is the place I really want to get to, just as when I face the world wrapped tightly by the material and values, I also have to ask myself, the end of the end of those who are about to consume the precious life of the object of the significance of it?
Certainly, the youth of struggle is beautiful, the youth of chase is also beautiful, if one day I have to choose to repress their own desires, then I should be allowed to continue to repress, because my desires are weak enough to be repressed, because the repressor and the struggler are equally usurping their own desires of the territory, ruled over the soul of the unwilling.
"Power is to remove all stench and pain, and glory is to give the stinking man the right to stink, the suffering man the right to suffer, the weak man the right to be weak, the filthy man the right to be filthy, and the cowardly man the right to be cowardly," is what Graham Greene tells us.
An honorable man should allow himself to be different.
A glorious people should allow someone to be different.