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What HBO's Westworld gets wrong (and right) about human nature

  • Written by Alan Jern, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

A central theme of HBO’s new sci-fi series “Westworld” is the question of what it means to be human.

The setting is an immersive adult theme park that’s been fashioned after the American Old West and is inhabited by intelligent lifelike robots. Over the years, the robots – called hosts – have been updated to...

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