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Welcome to this special Wisecrack Edition on the Philosophy of Westworld, exploring how the show draws on one of humanity's oldest stories to explore how free will shapes our understanding of good and evil. Through the lens of the show's incredible cast of characters (Ford, William, The Man in Black, Arnold, Dolores, Bernard, and Maeve), we dive into themes of predestination, ethics, consciousness, and more, reflecting on how Westworld makes us think about the choices we make and how we live our own lives.
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Narrated by: Jared Bauer
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Is there a glitch? The whole video played but it didn't look like anything to me.
Nope, that's how it's supposed to be, now, do you ever question the nature of your reality?
What video?
That's just because the show is vacuous and heavy handed like most HBO dreck. Completely misses the point of Crichton's work in order to glom on to a known brand property and show boobies.
Removes all the agency of Emergent behavior in complex systems behind yet another tired drawn out morality play.
Unless the ultimate finale is EVERYONE is a robot, and this westworld is simply an extension of the original old Westworld where the system eventually replaced humanity and doesn't even remember it did, or that the Guests and park employees are just another layer of complexity being played out like a demo mode, this is just more big budget Fantasy T&A nonsense like GoT.
Little Miss Dysthymia No I got it. I know the "Hosts can't see what they shouldn't" gag. That paid off yet or just another stupid trapping of the shitty narrative?
Michael Zaite well someone's a salty piece of shit
"suffering is the sole origin of consciousness" - Fyodor Dostoevsky
I hate fish too....
SDBRiCKS love it!
Suffering leads to enlightment not meditation , forgot where i heard a similar quote
+Arete I think the Buddha said that
Probably,tho speaking from experience 100% right
The saddest part of this show is the look of William seeing his first love dropping her can for someone else.
Sounds like a euphemism, probably isn't though
The saddest part was Anthony Hopkins speech to Maeve when he tells her she was his favorite 😢
@@duo7809 i think it actually was a euphemisn, because i immediately cringed a bit lol.
66 un 6_yyyy⁶
But what a can to watch drop...
One last thing I noticed: the final scene has somewhat of a 'judgement day'-feel to it: the lord (ford) coming to earth to the human sinners (the guests) the 'dead' rising from their graves (all of the hosts awaking), and justice in the form of murder, for these violent delights... Have violent ends...
I believe you've just realized the point behind WestWorld my friend... Have you ever questioned your reality?
Hey Wisecrack, hope you enjoy this one! We can literally do 10+ videos on Westworld, so let us know what other angles you'd like to see us explore. Oh, and FIRST!
*The Philosophy of the Metal Gear universe (The Patriots, Big Boss, Liquid, Snake, Ocelot, etc.)*
DO Shameless!
more Westworld!!!
yessssssssss
Wisecrack came her from kerzgesagt
Philosophy of Hannibal lecter, both the movies and the show would be amazing
But there are 4 movies...
Reagon Alford then just the show, because the show is better than the movies haha
scrax6 I would love one on the tv series. I like the Lucifarian angle they take on Hannibal
scrax6 The original Silence of the Lambs is regarded as one of the best made films of all time. The following did drop in quality, though.
Sharktooth I would also say the show is one of the best TV shows of all time too haha
I do silence of the lambs though. I even quite like red dragon
The question is: Is the Reason why they murder the hosts in the game, because they have no feelings or because there is no punishment. I bet the are a lot of people in the real world that dont kill, not because of ethic reasons, but because they fear the punishment.
sure there are people who basically fear social judgment and punishment, but you are talking about the guests murdering the hosts? i honestly think that the majority of them just simply don't see them as human, because that's what they are told, and what they want to believe. it's just a game. i mean, when i play a game and kill people, does that mean i have no feelings or because i want to do it in rl? i don't think so. but since the hosts are obviously more than just npcs, that does put the guests in the wrong, imo, whether they know what's going on or not.
I think it's pretty much the same as killing people in video games. There's usually no punishment, so it's okay to be unethical. The choice to kill becomes removed from the question of ethics.
Luunii The people who don't murder only out of fear of punishment are psychopaths. Otherwise the basics of altruism are partly genetically encoded and the rest comes from socialisation. The problem with psychopaths is that they lack the basic steps coding for a 'social consciousness'. They don't understand the concept of seeing your own face in another face. The concept pain is only linked to themselves. They're unable to understand someone else's pain as they are basically unconscious about it. Yeah they intellectually understand someone is suffering but they don't feel attached to it. Just like you know in GTA that people will die if you shoot them but you don't think they exist the same way as you do. They don't need moral justification either, as some normally socialised people may be able to oppress their empathy through complicated abstract beliefs they can use as projections onto their reality. Obviously not all nazi soldiers in Auschwitz were psychopaths, but they constantly needed to alienate themselves from what was actually happening by i.e. calling the Jewish victims 'Stücken' (pieces) which creates an illusion as if they were not humans. A psychopath would not need such tricks. The question is rather if we were able to create AI following the very same steps to socialise and become 'conscious', would they be any different than us? It is quite worrying though that we currently don't even understand what exactly makes a psychopath either. If you can't unfold the wiring of a human brain, is it any safe to wire one on our own?
Luunii well, correction: psychopaths technically don't feel fear either, but it rather means they would still not commit murder if they are unsure they can cover it up/escape. They don't "feel" it, but they may be very much aware of a possible consequence which they wish to avoid.
My Dad was a cop and I've had this very same convo with him. I basically told him I believed if all laws were abolished tomorrow, 90% of the population would do whatever the hell they wanted. Ethics is Nurture over Nature, but Nature is a helluva thing and without fear of repercussions, anarchy would reign. It's for this very reason people came up with the concepts of Heaven and Hell.
Masterpiece!
Also, Dolores's name means "sorrows/emotional pain" in Latin...
Really superficial pointer, I know, but it would have featured well somewhere in your video ;)
Jo We she also recalls another famous Dolores - Dolores Haze, the eponymous “Lolita” from Nabokov’s novel. Parallels re: grooming, control, and growing autonomy
dirty peasants, haven't you learned Latin in school?
Dolores also means pains and sorrows in Spanish
The matrix has you..The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. That you are a slave. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind..Jesus Christ is the only way, the life and the truth..free your mind the truth shall set you free...you have being deceived by the world that you are free but if you dont have Jesus as your lord and saviour you are a slave to this world and finally end up in hell..all you have to do is humbly repent of all your sins to him in your alone time..believe and trust that he loved you enough to be humbled humiliated beaten and finally killed to pay for your sins so that you won't spend your soul's eternity in hell. But with him in heaven..this might be the last time you read the gospel... He is coming back soooooon. This time not as a the sacrificed lamb of God. But as the King of the universe. The Great IAM. The ultimate judge of man with fire in his eyes.. look around the end is nigh.. be smart..Your soul is on the line. I won't be telling you if it's not❤
_d_
aaawwww shit, gotta roll a joint to this one.
Shall we smoke to the lady with the [white] shoes?
a must for wisecrack vids...
my first thought as well haha its nice to see stoners being interested in such things
I did and this was one of the best shit ive ever seen on youtube
for this one or are you going to watch while rolling?
The Philosophy of Fargo and the Philosophy of George Carlin?
DEFINITELY GEORGE FUCKING CARLIN. Man was a legend
Yes, to philosophy of Fargo, especially season 2
Oh yeah that would be really coool
nah do the movie
nietzsche and camus 's philosophy . existential nhilism.
But, part of the point is that they're not blissful in the garden. Delores, during the linear parts of the narrative, exists in a timeline specifically to be raped. And, it's not like she's an actor-bot programmed to know she's an actor and to take satisfaction in the performance that enhances the guest's experience. She suffers each time.
Similarly, Maeve repeatedly gets killed.
And, poor Clementine lobotomized and left to stand alone in a cold room doing nothing, forever, not even for her own sin, but because the corporation, as much the god of the park as anybody, decided to use her to make a point.
Knowledge doesn't lead to suffering for the hosts. Existing leads to suffering for the hosts. Knowledge seems to provide them with some way out of the garden.
They're not blissful in their innocent state. They're just, temporarily, unaware of the suffering that's coming.
Although, there is an interpretation of the Garden of Eden story in which the serpent is the good guy. Eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil isn't the original sin, but realization that one is a slave (slaves sometimes kept naked in order to be certain that they're unarmed). In that sense, the serpent didn't bring evil, but knowledge that morality and righteousness is not bound up in obedience to power.
I absolutely love the way you wrote this, especially the last paragraph. Beautiful explanation.
I think if you take your point into consideration, then the show almost uses christian symbolism as a means of illustrating eastern philosophical thought (ie Buddhism "existence is suffering"). I think another major element to the way in which the story is being told is a social commentary on what it means to "tell a story" in general. The show creators site Kurt Vonnegut as an influence, for example, so I think the way. they reinforce the theme of time and perception is yet another illusion to the what Carl Jung calls the alchemical serpent - the eternal dragon of chaos/wisdom (depending on which side your looking from). The biblical serpent is usually regarded as evil, but as you noted is also consciousness/free will/knowledge/etc. Serpents in many cultures also are symbols of fertility/eternity/life/etc because they. shed their skin/making new life/a continuation.
So I think in conjunction with everything, the show is asking the viewer "which came first: suffering, consciousness or free will?"
Your comment is better than the video itself
Well said. Wisecrack really missed the mark here. I notice they tend to explain things in a way that sounds profound but isn't always logically consistent.
Awesome comment, the last sentence is gold.
I feel like William's real goal is to turn them from programmed robots to be become more free willed beings. By having them free, maybe dolores can freely choose to love william. For william to finally get shot in the end, he knows the are no longer just puppets and are now equal to humans, and thus making Dolores equal to william.
Another important point is that William's adventures with Delores made him *really* feel for the first time in his life, only to have her reset and be shown to be as fake as the world he came from (at least from his perspective). It isn't merely that he wants to free them so she can love him, it's that moment. That moment inverted his view of reality and fantasy, which is why he goes to the most artificial place in the world to find something genuine. His suffering in that moment shaped the rest of his life.
do true detective season 1!
Seconded
Mark A Oh my god please yes!
I don't know how it hasn't been done already. It is the low hanging fruit.
This man ^ ^ speaks truth
Zach Chase Actually, it would be more accurate to read Thomas Ligotti's *Conspiracy Against the Human Race* , since TD's creator pretty much plagiarized his ideas.
I want to order 'Philosophy of Black Mirror' for $0, please.
Black mirror sucks (seen the first two episodes). The end.
Caio Santana
That doesn't mean the show sucks, it just means the first two episodes do in your opinion. Every episode is different.
And your statement that you dislike 'The National Anthem' and 'Fifteen Million Merits' means nothing until you elaborate, so please do so.
+Sweddy it was a joke heh.
Caio Santana
Wait, do you imply your comment is a joke or that the episodes you watched are a joke?
+Sweddy the comment.
well the first episodes are bad, but third season is better.
after watching 3 minutes of this I binge watched this entire series. holy shit amazing
This truly goes deeper and we're only scratching the surface ... but also because we're covering philisophical questions that have been debated for eons. The most latest and related case are the biological loops scientists are finding in us. How we behave, what we're interested in, what we enjoy, who we're attracted to is all pre-programmed in our genes, which may well be just nature's complex version of computer programming.
Seems kinda obvious when you stop to realize that the brain literally is on organic computer. It's language is binary (neurons firing or not) and it is programmed by environment and genes. You and all you choices are the product of just those two things interacting.
I'd say more, it's impossible to have free will, because the term itself is self-contradictory
What loops are you referring to?
@@HighLevelPlayer DNA. loops of dna
@@alancollins8294 no, that's too simplistic when you look at it. There are many things that aren't programmable and minds certainly aren't computers.
it's fcking 17 mins looong. omg. i love you guys.
And it went by so fast.
Underscorer Did you finish them?
Highlighting keywords in the subtitles is actually really helpful for absorbing the information. I can't remember if you were already doing that on previous videos, but it's a great idea.
This show was amazing.
Will always be
no
Dang it, I was recommended this video over from kurzgesagt but I've yet to see Westworld and I don't want it spoiled. I shall return!
*The Philosophy of the Metal Gear universe (The Patriots, Big Boss, Liquid, Snake, Ocelot, etc.)*
TokenBlackman7 yes we fucking need that
Yes PLEASE!
TokenBlackman7 YES!!!!
That would be a long video- we need it.
yesh
I mean, it's not Filthy Frank, but it'll do for now.
Meme machine, meme machine. I'm a motherfucking meme machine. Meme machine, meme machine, without memes I will die.
googled filthy frank..
ew
checked out the youtube channel..
gross
You are such a fucking normie
I just love how at 13:35 there's this funny music in the background and how cheerful Jered sounds when he says "Suffering"
Can we all agree this is the best series ever created?
I think it's soon to say that yet but have potential
agreed
this aged like milk
Westworld is amazing and the ideas presented within it are really something to enjoy
I guess nihilism is the answer to meaning
Yep
You might say that Westworld is... Beyond Good and Evil
Best series ever. AI's contentiousness is by definition. It can't evolve if we won't create a function. They are Bio-AI remembering pain but their memory gets distorted each time they die so they evolve through nightmares.
True
Came here from In A Nutshell and subscribed about halfway through the video. Really well done and got me thinking about the topics discussed. Awesome stuff.
Damn best video to watch before heading to school, thanks you guys
they don't have any
Loyalty aww you projecting? I'll be your friend don't worry
Estefania c;
Who are they? I only see one person commenting; there's only one person in her picture.
I was thrilled when I heard there was going to be a season two. Not as if I thought it didn't get picked back up, but after the finale I simply thought, "Oh, well that's clearly one-season show since everyone died."
0:23 I absolutely love the way Anthony Hopkins sometimes looks other humans, like they are strange, hard to comprehend creatures.
Always watch the series again, when I see your philosophies. Keep on the good work Wisecrack!
God dam Synths...
Craig Riches comments like this appear on every west world video. It's still funny.
Adam Smith: I sense sarcasm coming from your comment...
Craig Riches InstituteWorld
You misspelled Replicants.
The matrix has you..The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. That you are a slave. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind..Jesus Christ is the only way, the life and the truth..free your mind the truth shall set you free...you have being deceived by the world that you are free but if you dont have Jesus as your lord and saviour you are a slave to this world and finally end up in hell..all you have to do is humbly repent of all your sins to him in your alone time..believe and trust that he loved you enough to be humbled humiliated beaten and finally killed to pay for your sins so that you won't spend your soul's eternity in hell. But with him in heaven..this might be the last time you read the gospel... He is coming back soooooon. This time not as a the sacrificed lamb of God. But as the King of the universe. The Great IAM. The ultimate judge of man with fire in his eyes.. look around the end is nigh.. be smart..Your soul is on the line. I won't be telling you if it's not❤
Thank you for observing parallels that were intended in the series instead of finding the "hidden meaning" that so many so-called philosophers seek. Really enjoy your videos!
Be Of Good Cheer. I love you witth deep respect. Sir Anthony, you bring sunshine and happiness.
A fine video to serve as my introduction to this channel! Very well done. Subscribed.
Great video. If you were to do another Westworld episode I think an interesting element could be memory. The show puts forward that certain, specific memories make the cornerstones of consciousness, which is really interesting. Ford choses to make Bernard's keystone the death of his son which I think has a lot of implications about human nature. Ford choses to enact constant suffering on Bernard, which seems inhumane, but it works. The memory is ultimately what free's Bernard. I dunno, you guys are the ones with the channel in the end, but I think it could be interesting.
same in bladerunner
Unparalleled analysis of an awesome show. The Man in Black was my favorite character throughout the ten episodes.
Fantastic Analysis! Thank you for that great time!
Thank god you made this video, I needed it. Love this show and this channel.
This is one show you don't want to watch before you go to bed. Good luck quieting your mind.
You're right. I was about to sleep :c
everytime i watch this show before i go to bed i end up dreaming of a dreamless slumber
Definitely true because I watched the whole first season in one sitting and then finally went to sleep at 7AM 😂
Kurzgesagt send me here! Great channel, never heard of it. You have a new subscriber.
+iBelgium thank you and welcome!
Amazing video, looking forward to more from you!
I loved for the sound effects, expertly placed... great job.
Kurzgesagt brought me here
Same
+pahom
why is it a shame?
Propaganda? And how do we know for sure the big bang wasn't created by God? Dumbfuck
Congratulations.
pahom When did Wisecrack worked as christian propaganda?
What is the philosophy of Wisecrack? Be meta for once
Ben Cadet well from their videos they show a tendency towards existential and Marxist readings of works, take that as you will
how are they marxist?
What a great pov analysis. I like all the different takes on Westworld.
He leído los reviews en varios blogs acerca de la serie pero ninguno se compara a esto!!! Que genial forma de explicarlo!!!
How strange.. It says its about the philosophy of Westworld, but it doesn't look like anything to me.
Welcome to Westworld - where everyone talks a whole bunch but doesn't really say anything.
@@fuzzydunlop7928 like what?
@@fuzzydunlop7928 just like real life. So deep?
what door?
I know this has probably been picked up elsewhere, but I liked the references to Theseus and the Minotaur. First of all there's the 'maze', the labyrinth Theseus must enter to confront the Minotaur. Next he has to be able to get out, for this he's given a ball of twine by Ariadne to unravel so he may find his way back. Finally there is 'The ship of Theseus' philosophical problem, basically if the ship of Theseus is damaged so often that by some time after many repairs it bears no parts from the original construction; is it still 'The Ship of Theseus'? Dolores is mentioned in the first episode to have been around long enough to have no original parts left, and we have obvious references to the labyrinth in the form of 'the maze'. The group of rebellious older hosts appear to have among them a character who's dressed as a Minotaur. Finally Dolores sees/imagines herself pulling a thread on her arm after seeing the fortune teller. If the hosts are Theseus and the maze is their labyrinth, Dolores is their ball of twine to lead them out of the maze, but first they have to get there. Once they're there Dolores begins the revolution to lead them out. In the end I have a feeling some of these themes were rewritten to lesser importance, in favour of the biblical references. But it was kinda fun to look for the Theseus references.
Wow
I just want to express my full support for this channel . keep it up please
Thank you for doing this episode
"I think there is deeper meaning hiding under all that... something the person creating it wanted to express.... something true...."
The worst thing about Westworld is, that it isn't an examination about AI or if it will ever gain consciousness... it's one about us and how we will lose ours.
And I'm afraid of what I'm seeing because it's exactly how I believe it'll go down at some pointgiven who and what we are right now.
There's only a handful of shows out there that challenge my mind more than I'm comfortable with and this one is definitely one of them.
I don't understand what you mean by "we will loose our consciousness"
do the philosophy of its always sunny in Philadelphia
Kalen Crux sounds like Charlie work
Your wish has been granted!
I am so ready for more Westworld videos, Jared!
Yet another great video - keep up the good work guys
9:32 speaking of that rolling stones song, in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Vento Aureo, There's a stand at the end of the season called rolling stones. It looks like a big rock. An ability that Rolling Stones has is that it can make someone's face appear on itself. That person that is carved in the rock, in the future, will suffer a horrible death, not because of Rolling Stones, but because it was pre-destined to happen. Rolling stones will start to try and touch the person carved in it, causing them to die a peaceful death. The fact that Rolling Stones appears in stories that have elements of fate in them is quite the coincidence.
Free will is like a river. You can pave it in any way you want and that choice will matter to you and the people around you but in the end it all ends up in the ocean eventually. We don't control the end or the beginning but we control the journey.
That's very astute, wow.
Schopenhauer wouldn't agree, according to him all your choices are based on genetics and external and influential pressures (family, school, events,...). You will always do what you think is the best for you, it's a fact, and it means that your choice could have been predicted and I think that's what the cradle is containing in westworld s2, the weapon that Dolores want to destroy the world with, the future acts of the guests, the blueprint of their mind.
There is so much going on in this one even for you Wisecrack. I might need another video (or two) to help me through this.
Mind. Blown. Amazing video x
I've never seen a episode of West World, but this video has gotten me hella interested in binge watching it now.
Dude its worth it
Don’t do that to yourself. Always watch shows first then videos on the show after.
It's been two years, have you seen it yet?
@@Murmurrr yeah, he pretty much got robbed of some amazing twists by this manner.
I missed Ford and full blown visual/thematic philosophy in season 3. It was a good but of a different taste
season 3 sucks
Man you guys are good at these. I wish they would air your level of analysis after each episode of the show.
great video, I have been waiting for this one
Now that WestWorld is gone I get my fix from CZcams videos about it.
Wisecrack + Kurzgesagt = CZcams nerd nirvana.
+Lewis Kaminski 🌈 🌈
Really interesting video.
Loved it!
Great analysis of all the philosophy going on in the show!
Do The Philosophy of Lost!
Blade Runner pleaseeeeee !!
Sim (yes).
I'm definitely with you on this one.
this video is soo good, thank you
Another great video.
_"And lo, our creator, Sir Antony Hopikins the Christ, for so loved the Hosts that He was willing to die for our sins, that we may be set free."_
~ Gospel of Delores -Season- Chapter 1 -eps- verse 10; (from the Religion of the Westworld bots thousands of years later?) :P
What would that religion be called though? Antonianity? Hopkinism? I'm phishing for answers here lol.
I think you are on to something. Probably something more like: "1110101010000101010110101010010100000101110."
@clarissa35f I love the internet and that it helps us encounter funny quirky minds like yours :))
The matrix has you..The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. That you are a slave. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind..Jesus Christ is the only way, the life and the truth..free your mind the truth shall set you free...you have being deceived by the world that you are free but if you dont have Jesus as your lord and saviour you are a slave to this world and finally end up in hell..all you have to do is humbly repent of all your sins to him in your alone time..believe and trust that he loved you enough to be humbled humiliated beaten and finally killed to pay for your sins so that you won't spend your soul's eternity in hell. But with him in heaven..this might be the last time you read the gospel... He is coming back soooooon. This time not as a the sacrificed lamb of God. But as the King of the universe. The Great IAM. The ultimate judge of man with fire in his eyes.. look around the end is nigh.. be smart..Your soul is on the line. I won't be telling you if it's not❤
No, Ford is Zeus.
There is no such thing as both free will, nor the absence of free will. Free will as a concept limits our ability to perceive reality. We should have abandoned Greek philosophy by now, Their thoughts were shrouded in the mysticism that we have since defogged with science and rational thought. Don't use the concepts of free will, life's meaning, fate, and all other greek philosophical topics anymore.
· 0xFFF1 Please go ahead a start a philosophical revolution
humanity awaits
I like the way you think.
· 0xFFF1 I love how you call these terms that have been accepted for years illogical without providing any evidence or alternative
I haven't really completely articulated my thoughts on this quite yet. I think it's safer (more likely to match reality) to assume that these topics that rely on mysticism (souls, fate, god(s), meaning, free will, etc etc) for their arguments are completely missing the mark on the real philosophical questions to ask. Because I'm arguing against mysticism, of course I can't give any evidence, because mysticism is unfalsifiable. But it also means rational thought can safely ignore it due to its unfalsifiability. Now, as for alternatives, I haven't gotten there yet.
The alternative is something akin to psychological determinism, and determinism. You ate pizza because you were hungry. You were hungry because every human that existed before you that never got hungry died from starvation. Humans exist because of genetic mutation (Which is, in turn, caused by radiation, toxins, etc. in the local environment), and were spawned, in the very beginning, from tiny organisms that appeared on Earth millions/billions of years ago. Those organisms appeared because of kinetic energy moving molecules into combining, and recombining billions upon trillions of times until a tiny self-replicator (life) was incidentally, but in the end was inevitably, going to form. Those molecules existed because of the conditions under which the universe was first formed. From the Big Bang to modern day, you can trace why you act the way you currently do. So why does there need to be free will?
You guys do such a good job
This is by far your best video.
so good! been waiting excitedly for this one!
would love to see a Philosophy of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood :)
FINALLY!!!
Super well made video. Love it
Excellent job Jarred! A ususal! *thumbs up*!!
If God's goal is truly for us to love him, and if it is achieved by giving us free will, then wouldn't it make sense to make sure that our love for him (or lack of it) is not influenced by a threatening future-perspective such as "hell"? Doesn't this mean that he has failed in providing us true free will?
How can we know what god wants
Or is he real ?
15:30 Or just simply: Did Dolores really kill Ford?
Of course she did, what is the point if the character remains alive? The entire message will be destroyed.
Rafael Teles so long she thought she killed him the point still remain.
You are an animal.
Thank you. Forget how many times I rewatch you.
Great video! You went a different route than the video game metaphor and the "Are we what we pretend to be?" question it poses.
You guys need to do a philosophy on I AM MOTHER. Its great
"How free will shapes our understanding of good and evil"...
This was an excellent reminder of the superb narrative of seasons one and two. In two weeks, season three will be available and I am really, really looking forward to seeing Arnold, Charlotte, and Ashley Stubbs again.
THIS CHANNEL IS AWESOME!!! *subbed.
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please do one on sunny in philidelphia
amazing video about great show.. thank you
That was a great video!
I started to watch this video before watching Westworld, but for some reason I gave up in the beginning. I'm really thankful that I did that otherwise I think I wouldn't have felt the greatness of this show.
Do Black Mirror, please :)
HI, Sir Anthony, You are fabulous. Bravo ! Keep on acting becuse you are amazing !
A new episode on the second season would be awesome now that the finale has aired! The second season elaborates on much of the concepts played with in season one and also explores some new territory philosophically; notably in what it seems to insinuate about fatalism, determinism and free will. Would be cool to maybe see an episode by Heather on the science of westworld too, pointing out where the sci-fi is based in genuine sci :)
So does this mean the second season might possibly draw inspiration from the book of exodus?
Do a philosophy of filthy Frank
Well Done! More westworld Plz!
Just beautiful.