All very good question that the show has yet to address.

In my opinion? Nothing whatsoever. I was merely responding to your reference to the Turing test as some sort of critical benchmark on the path to "true consciousness", whatever that may be. The Turing test is no such thing, it's merely a test designed to see whether an AI can fool a human being into thinking they are…

More interestingly (I am not sure if we are referring to the same scene), but after MiB kills Maeve the "simple homesteader" and her child (following which Maeve cuts MiB and "reveals" the Maze to him), she is assessed by Ford and Bernard in an emergency session.

Indeed. The conflation (superimposition hardly fits the bill here) of the William and MiB timelines in that barn scene is really the only thing that makes no sense to me. There is no way that the memory of MiB's violence can act as a trigger enabling Dolores to shoot the bandit host. There would have to be…

A simulacrum of human intellect (passing the Turing test is more a comment on the gullibility of human beings than a certificate of self-awareness) is not necessarily a replica of the human intellect, let alone its equal. Much like hyperrealism in art is not the actual thing that's painted, nor even the photo that's…

She needs a major reconstructive procedure so that she can manipulate the Park techs into removing the explosive charge in her C6 vertebra (the bomb that's programmed to go off and decapitate her if she tries to leave WestWorld). So the level of damage implied here is quite intentional.

Still quicker than the billions of years of natural selection it took to get to the buggy patchwork of misfiring synapses that passes for consciousness in us, human beings. ;)

The issue you raise with respect to Bernard's memory dive is most likely explained by the way in which the Hosts' memory—computer memory—module operates. It's already been described as amenable to perfect recall, unlike the continuously degrading human memory, and as being indistinguishable from the reality of the…

I think you are confusing Ford with Bernard. The scene you are referring to was the "assessment by Behaviour" after Stubbs has Dolores brought in from Pariah (she is taken from the costumed procession—a voice puts her into a "deep and dreamless slumber" sleep mode) when a tech reports to him that Dolores has veered…

Badger is of the opinion that it is impossible, all the way down to the level of quantum mechanics, for Dolores to be wearing the same cowboy costume that she picks up in in the course of the El Lazo nitroglycerine heist loop in both timeframes. Same clothes? Same Dolores. Same timeline. No use arguing, It's Occam's…

Not once has MiB interacted with the Dolores from William's timeframe. The fact that she is wearing the same clothes in the Escalante church simply means that she picked up the same outfit from Lawrence El Lazo in Pariah.

Because Dolores picks up this cowboy costume from her friendly neighbourhood dry cleaners Lawrence El Lazo & Co. every 30 years or so when she passes through Pariah to catch a train loaded with nitroglycerine corpses en route to Escalante to celebrate the anniversary of the glorious Wyatt massacre and the murder of…

To be able to leave WestWorld without being blown into little Maeve bits, Maeve must somehow deal with the explosive charge in her C6 vertebra. To further this objective, she needs to be designated for a major reconstruction procedure or to be given an entirely new body. Maeve intends to cause major structural damage…