Westworld: S2 E6: Phase Space

Looks like we got some more Elsie and MIB. Should be more interesting than last week.

Hate to say it but most of it was boring. Last 30 seconds were the prize though

Yup. Made me feel even less sorry for them

The Shogun World stuff is pointless and at times cringeworthy

Yup.

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Shogun World stuff is pointless and at times cringeworthy

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Yeah.....

But the sword fight ending in dismemberment and seppuku was kinda cool.

There’s barely any posts in here compared to what there usually is. I guess a lot of people finally gave up on it.

After the opening and ending scenes, I'm even moreso confused/entertained.

My interpretation after this episode is that Ford had Bernard print the red pearl of Ford, which was then used to upload Ford's mind into the mainframe.

What I'm still unsure of is Ford's plan in the long run. Ford never talked in season1 as if he was tired and old or tired of his passion with WW, yet made the comment about "becoming music". So. I think he set the Dolores story into motion in episode 10, which would mean the death of himself, but with his mind backed up on the mainframe, he may have also planned to reprint his body and mind in the future. Regardless, Ford can obviously still pull strings(maybe even more so) now that his mind is on the Delos network and the only difference is that he no longer has a physical entity present.

The cognitive plateau is what happens when you put a digital scan of a human mind back into a host body. We haven't been given much background on all of this yet, but from what we have seen it's safe to say that no degradation occurs in virtual reality/cradle.

I'm also thinking the title is referencing the virtual reality that exist in the cradle. I had always assumed that any data that they were storing on a mainframe in terms of host minds/Ford/human minds was static and needed the right hardware and OS to emulate a human, but it seems that this virtual world allows backed up minds to interact as if it they were in the physical world. It would also make sense for Delos to have something like this in order to let loops/storylines play out and get a probability distribution of outcomes/behavior. The one time I heard phase space before was in quantum mechanics but I'm still trying to make sense of that relationship.

EDIT: the more I think about what Delos had going on in the cradle, the more I think about the idea I read a while back about the possibility of humanity living in a simulation, or the possibility of an advanced civilization being able to create a simulation of the universe, which after some time leads to a civilization in first simulation becoming advanced enough to create a simulation of their own, and so on and so forth. If Delos was having loops/storylines play out to determine outcomes/behavior, they are pretty much creating a quasi-infinite universes situation where every possible version of something exists, in this case, the park being the "universe"

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I just finished and thought the episode was awesome and the previews got me so hype for the last two episodes

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There are four episodes left. 10 episode season.