Author: Marcel Kuijsten

The human being, the philosopher Martin Heidegger claimed, is the only being “whose being is an issue for it.” …

Episode 10, the season finale, is titled “The Bicameral Mind” after Julian Jaynes’s theory, which states that prior to the development of introspective consciousness, our brain hemispheres operated more independently than they do today, with the right hemisphere acting as the “god-side” and the left acting as the “man-side,” and neither being conscious.

by Melissa Dahl Part of the fun of Westworld is the vague feeling that you, much like some kind of hapless host,

*Contains spoilers* Episode 9 opens with Bernard interviewing Maeve, but she quickly assumes control of Bernard, who has lost awareness

*Contains spoilers* Like much of Ford’s speech, the instruction he gives to Bernard in the opening of Episode 8 is