I regularly discuss philosophy as it relates to religious, spirituality and other facets of our life and found an interesting perspective.
While discussing it, I couldn’t help but notice the similarities to the TV show Westworld, but as I thought about the perspective, it made it that much more horrifying and such a good show.
Most people who watch the show no doubt see it from the “Jurassic Park” angle. Sentient beings gone wrong and they are destroying the park. That’s creepy and horrifying enough-and witnessing it from a human perceptive where humanity is in control is a position of shame or guilt-we control them and are irresponsible in our control.
But seeing it from the robots’ point of view is equally horrifying. Waking up without memories or vague ones, and the feeling of being off, or not totally correct is more horrifying to me-in the sense that it COULD be happening to us currently. Bear with me:
We dream now, and many of those don’t make sense. Many people report alien/ghost sensations, and there are plenty of things in our world that we cannot people explain, or have incredible odd coincidences that are a weird correlation to our lives and life paths. People who have died and come back report odd spiritual experiences and have major life changes. A “glitch” in the matrix, or maybe the alien probe story has found its way to many a soul.
If you stretch out logic-and you believe that there is a path predetermined for people (which I do personally) then there is something that controls that path. And what is more creepy then the realization that something controls that path isn’t quite as all knowing, benevolent, or as secure in that path as they should be. We COULD be the robots gaining sentience, and the experiments gone wrong. Which is all the more chilling considering it could be true enough with all the weirdness that exists in the world. Maybe the beings are in a different dimension, and the echos of what we see is the energy passed between.
That also sounds like the plot of Prometheus, where a “maker” race creates the Alien to destroy the humans, much to Michael Fassbender’s delight. He himself was a product of humans, very much like the humans were a product of the “makers” and now that I think about that, it’s a very weird feeling how he enjoyed the Alien killing all of his previous shipmates.
There’s no point to this, other than a different perspective exists, or can exist in theory, and adds some interesting delight to the day. I could never fully accept that when you die there’s nothingness. I’m hoping that I someday get to learn more about this crazy existence that maybe makes it all worthwhile.