My assumption was that the Man in Black was using exploits (finding places, people, scalps he shouldn't have had access to) to glitch his way into a quest that should have been blocked off for him. Either he he thinks it's not meant for him but wants in anyway, or he thinks that the designers intentionally made a quest that one had to hack (lit/fig) their way into. And when Bernard told Dolores to find The Maze it struck me that this meant The Maze was meant for her, for awakening AI. That one of the other levels to the enterprise was to develop/encourage conscious AI. Perhaps there is a level unknown to the Westworld-level developers that is full of emerging-conscious AI already, and Bernard is inviting Dolores to find and join them.
The fact that MiB doesn't know snake tattoo/Hector also implies that Hector is Bad Artist's baby (I don't remember his name), developed during Ford's period of non-involvement. Which suggests Hector's nihilism is an Anti-Ford sentiment, but one which, now that it's introduced, Ford is turning toward his ends. Maybe Ford sent MiB to Hector to see how they would bounce off each other. Chaotic Neutral meets Lawful Evil (MiB's ethics is one of ends-justifying-means, a Dark Gnostic turned zealot).
Of course the real reason Ford turned MiB to Hector is so he will meet up with Dolores, whom the Maze was meant for. Why, though? You'd think the presence of a Guest would mess things up? Or is the MiB/Black Hat/White hat convergence going to (as you suggest) teach Dolores what it really means to be human? (Good/Bad/Ugly, Black Hat being ugly, since he's not so much evil as... gross. And like the Eli Wallach character, opportunistic.)
Maybe Wyatt's emergence is also the emergence of conscious AI, immune to bullets because they are not technically part of the westworld. Speculation.
The show is setting up Arnold as a Prometheus to Ford's Zeus. (Was Arnold AI? That would be too obvious, and wouldn't explain why he was trying to figure out artificial consciousness.) Matthew Arnold's "Love let us be true to one another" in the face of unrelenting misery --- an ethics of no matter the circumstances, treat others as conscious beings. Whereas Ford (ironically?) treats the hosts as products.
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Date: 2016-10-28 01:25 pm (UTC)The fact that MiB doesn't know snake tattoo/Hector also implies that Hector is Bad Artist's baby (I don't remember his name), developed during Ford's period of non-involvement. Which suggests Hector's nihilism is an Anti-Ford sentiment, but one which, now that it's introduced, Ford is turning toward his ends. Maybe Ford sent MiB to Hector to see how they would bounce off each other. Chaotic Neutral meets Lawful Evil (MiB's ethics is one of ends-justifying-means, a Dark Gnostic turned zealot).
Of course the real reason Ford turned MiB to Hector is so he will meet up with Dolores, whom the Maze was meant for. Why, though? You'd think the presence of a Guest would mess things up? Or is the MiB/Black Hat/White hat convergence going to (as you suggest) teach Dolores what it really means to be human? (Good/Bad/Ugly, Black Hat being ugly, since he's not so much evil as... gross. And like the Eli Wallach character, opportunistic.)
Maybe Wyatt's emergence is also the emergence of conscious AI, immune to bullets because they are not technically part of the westworld. Speculation.
The show is setting up Arnold as a Prometheus to Ford's Zeus. (Was Arnold AI? That would be too obvious, and wouldn't explain why he was trying to figure out artificial consciousness.) Matthew Arnold's "Love let us be true to one another" in the face of unrelenting misery --- an ethics of no matter the circumstances, treat others as conscious beings. Whereas Ford (ironically?) treats the hosts as products.