https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23831820-700-westworld-a-complex-tale-of-robot-awakening-has-us-riveted/

IF YOU have yet to catch Westworld (fast approaching the end of season 2), here’s why everyone from your friends to serious philosophers have been raving about it, or even writing long, serious essays on the issues that it raises.

Westworld is set in a near future where, for a price, you can visit a super-realistic Wild West theme park in which the hosts are played by convincingly humanoid robots. As in the 1973 film on which the …