5 books that are worth reading fans' world of the Wild West "

End of the first season of the acclaimed series "The World of the Wild West» (Westworld). The big names - Jonathan Nolan, JJ Abrams, Anthony Hopkins - and the topic of artificial intelligence could not leave the audience indifferent.

AI - it's good for the box office and win-win, but more important to properly expand this topic. Here accurately claims to writers and film crew there: they skillfully juggle philosophical problems. The creators of the series to get a real show. A bunch of androids involved in large-scale Western history; the same bunch business aunt and uncle in white coats, which they rule at the top of the entire process, as if speaking of the world of the Wild West gods - even without seeing published series that sounds cool.

And those who have watched the show, had to pay attention to things that are outside of the plot.

How to treat the thinking machines? Applicable to them whether any standards of morality? Could they have consciousness? Can we be in their place? What if our personal life story - it is a game of imagination behind the scenes of programmers? Why are you so sure that everything that happens around - this is the reality?

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Here are a few books that are sure to be able to satisfy your curiosity, or, on the contrary, it warm up!

1. "Unconscious mind," David Chalmers

David Chalmers - living classic of contemporary philosophy of mind. The book "Conscious mind" until only his work, translated into Russian, but it is possible to get acquainted with almost all the popular approaches to solving the riddle of consciousness. The author criticizes materialism position, and then gently and unobtrusively offer its decision.

Is there a consciousness in robots? What happens to the man who will replace the brain computer processor? Do I have to be conscious in order to talk about it? In the book you can find answers to these questions.

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2. "Types of mentality: towards understanding consciousness," Daniel Dennett

As well as David Chalmers, Dennett - a living classic. He, along with Richard Dawkins struggling all over the world with religion, and along with all sorts of hoaxes in the question of consciousness.

In the book "Types of mentality" Dennett argues that if vegetarians need to worry about the existence of consciousness in chicken or eggs, why are we so sure that other people are conscious, and that is common between a laser printer and horse. And, of course, you will be able to answer the question, what's going on in the mind of the android from Westworld Park.

3. "Creative Evolution", Henri Bergson

Winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize winner Henri Bergson writes about life, time, memory, creative impulse and evolution. It makes it so that the book is read in one breath.

In the "Creative Evolution" Bergson insists on the fact that the highest point of the evolution of life - people. He is the only one who can be called living and creating freely. According to the thinker, life - a rush that was lost many animals, such as our closest neighbors in the evolutionary tree - chimpanzees.

But Bergson had not thought that a person can create the image of your thinking machine. And we see in the "world of the Wild West," some of these machines took the life impulse... what place they occupy in the evolution of life? Deadlock? Or create a new branch? With the available examples from the show you can answer for yourself these questions.

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4. "The man who plays" Johan Huizinga

In the "World of the Wild West", all visitors - are avid players. Give them the will, time and money, they would have participated in all the subjects of the park. But why visitors act as lead? Thanks to the efforts of marketers Park? Or the pursuit of the game - is the foundation of human culture?

Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga in his book "Man playing" a detailed analysis of the game and comes to the conclusion that it is based on human culture. He studied how the game takes place in the life of animals, which character it had in Antiquity and how varied throughout history. An extremely informative book! I am sure that after reading the play will be twice as interesting.

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5. "Discipline and Punish. Birth of the Prison ", Michel Foucault

In Westworld park built a clear system: there are machines that operate according to certain rules, and there are guards who monitor the implementation of these rules. If the machine breaks the rules, then it is written off and replaced with a new one. But in the story appear visitors who in most cases see themselves as heroes imperious Park entitled "Discipline and Punish".

The French philosopher Michel Foucault in his book "Discipline and Punish" talks about the phenomenon of power and that it was necessary for the possession of it at different times. Events taking place in the "World of the Wild West," make you think how thin the line between the supervisory and those for whom watching.

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