{"id":78789,"date":"2018-05-16T02:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T09:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/westworld-and-the-question-of-immortality"},"modified":"2018-05-17T10:04:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:04:17","slug":"westworld-and-the-question-of-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/westworld-and-the-question-of-immortality","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Westworld\u2019 and the Question of Immortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/westworld-and-the-question-of-immortality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Westworld<\/i>\u2019s first season was largely focused on the abuse of artificial life, given that the park hosts\u2019 purpose almost exclusively revolved around sex, violence, and suffering. The freedom Dolores and her ilk were fighting for was simple consciousness\u2014a right to their own memories and self-awareness. In just the first four episodes, <i>Westworld<\/i>\u2019s second season has exploded that basic quest into all kinds of fascinating directions, but \u201cThe Riddle of the Sphinx\u201d was the first to really grapple with one of the most obvious questions in AI, which is: Isn\u2019t artificial intelligence the key to immortality?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Three <em>Atlantic<\/em> staffers discuss \u201cThe Riddle of the Sphinx,\u201d the fourth episode of Season 2.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2018\/05\/westworld-season-2-episode-4-the-riddle-of-the-sphinx-roundtable\/559715\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2018\/05\/we...le\/559715\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westworld\u2019s first season was largely focused on the abuse of artificial life, given that the park hosts\u2019 purpose almost exclusively revolved around sex, violence, and suffering. The freedom Dolores and her ilk were fighting for was simple consciousness\u2014a right to their own memories and self-awareness. In just the first four episodes, Westworld\u2019s second season has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,6,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78851,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78789\/revisions\/78851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}