The Bicameral Mind

Westworld 1×10

& Arnold: Hello, Dolores. Welcome to world.

& Arnold: I had a theory of consciousness. I thought it was a pyramid you needed to scale, so I gave you a voice, my voice, to guide you along the way. Memory, improvisation, each step harder to reach than the last. And you never got there. I couldn’t understand what was holding you back. Then, one day, I realized I had made a mistake. Consciousness isn’t a journey upward, but a journey inward. Not a pyramid, but a maze. Every choice could bring you closer to the center or send you spiraling to the edges, to madness. Do you understand now, Dolores, what the center represents? Whose voice I’ve been wanting you to hear?

& Arnold: We can’t open the park. You’re alive.

& Man in Black: Remember, you’re the one who said this is the only world that matters, and you were right. So I took your advice and I bought this world.
    Dolores: This world doesn’t belong to you.
    Man in Black: Oh, but it does. By a majority share. And business is booming.

& William: Can you help me?
    Lawrence: We’re outnumbered five to one. But seeing as you asked me so nicely, fuck it.

& Charlotte Hale: It’s over. Everything is under control...

& Maeve: In case you’re wondering if I’m all here, I am.

& Charlotte Hale: When you’ve reached the top, there’s only one direction you can go.

& Maeve: I see you’ve already met your makers...
    Armistice: They don’t look like gods.
    Maeve: They’re not. They just act like it.

& Armistice: This one has a guilty look.
    Sylvester: No, that’s just my face. Tell her, it’s just my face.

& William: This place is remarkable.

& Dolores: William.

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& Man in Black: You helped me understand... This world is just like the one outside... a game. One to be fought, taken, won.

& Dolores: I’m not crying for myself. I’m crying for you.
They say that... great beasts once roamed this world. As big as mountains. Yet all that’s left of them is bone and amber. Time undoes even the mightiest of creatures. Just look at what it’s done to you.
    One day... you will perish. You will lie with the rest of your kind in the dirt. Your dreams forgotten, your horrors effaced. Your bones will turn to sand. And upon that sand... a new god will walk. One that will never die. Because this world doesn’t belong to you or the people who came before. It belongs to someone who has yet to come.

& Man in Black: Do it. Come on. Let’s go to the next level, Dolores.

& Felix: He’s a host?!
    Maeve: Yes... Oh, for fuck’s sake. You’re not one of us. You’re one of them.

& Bernard: Oh, God. Is this now? Or is this one of my memories?
    Maeve: It’s the sweet hereafter, Bernard.

& Bernard: It’s not the first time I’ve awoken... Not the first time you’ve awoken either.

& Maeve: These memories... I want you to remove them.
    Bernard: I can’t, not without destroying you. Your memories are the first step to consciousness. How can you learn from your mistakes if you can’t remember them?

& Dr. Ford: I tried to tell you the maze wasn’t meant for you. It was meant for them.

& Dr. Ford: I think you’ll find my new narrative more satisfying. Join the celebration. After all, you own the place. Most of it, at least.

& Bernard: These things you’re doing, have you ever stopped to ask why you’re doing them?
    Maeve: You said yourself. I’ve been stuck in this shithole for so long, I decided to get out.
    Bernard: No, you haven’t.

& Maeve: No one’s controlling me. I’m leaving. I’m in control.

& Dolores: And where would we run to? The other world out there? Beyond?..
Some people see the ugliness in this world. I choose to see the beauty. But beauty is a lure. We’re trapped, Teddy. Lived our whole lives inside this garden, marveling at its beauty, not realizing there’s an order to it, a purpose. And the purpose is to keep us in. The beautiful trap is inside of us... because it is us.

& Dr. Ford: Thank you. A new beginning, indeed. I want to thank you for joining me tonight to celebrate the beginning of our new narrative. I call it... «Journey Into Night.»

& Armistice: The gods are pussies.

& Dr. Ford: He created a test of empathy, imagination. A maze... Eventually, you solved his maze, Dolores. The key was a simple update that he made to you called the reveries.

& Arnold: «These violent delights have violent ends.»

& Dr. Ford: Wasn’t it Oppenheimer who said that any man whose mistakes take 10 years to correct is quite a man?.. Mine have taken 35.

& Dr. Ford: You’re probably right, Dolores. Michelangelo did tell a lie. See, it took 500 years for someone to notice something hidden in plain sight. It was a doctor who noticed the shape of the human brain. The message being that... the divine gift does not come from a higher power... but from our own minds.

& Maeve: Oh, Felix. You really do make a terrible human being... And I mean that as a compliment.

& Anouncer: Thank you for visiting Westworld. The train will be departing in 15 minutes.

& Dr. Ford: It was Arnold’s key insight, the thing that led the hosts to their awakening... suffering. The pain that the world is not as you want it to be.

& Dr. Ford: ...And now, it is time to say good-bye, old friend. Good luck.

& Dolores: I’m in a dream. I do not know when it began or whose dream it was. I know only that I slept a long time. And then... one day I awoke.

& Dr. Ford: Since I was a child... I’ve always loved a good story. I believed that stories helped us to ennoble ourselves, to fix what was broken in us, and to help us become the people we dreamed of being. Lies that told a deeper truth.

& Dr. Ford: An old friend once told me something that gave me great comfort...
    Bernard: «These violent delights have violent ends.»
    Dr. Ford: Something he had read. He said that Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin never died. They simply became music. So, I hope you will enjoy this last piece... very much.

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