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Quotes
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Bernard Lowe : I guess people like to read about the things that they want the most and experience the least.
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Lauren : These talks... I don't know if they help or... Do you ever wish you could forget?
Bernard Lowe : This pain... it's all I have left of him.
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Bernard Lowe : Your job isn't to protect Dolores. It's to keep her here.
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Bernard Lowe : Stop. Lose all scripted responses. Improvisation only.
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Dr. Robert Ford : For three years, we lived here in the park, refining the hosts before a single guest set foot inside. Myself, a team of engineers, and my partner.
Bernard Lowe : You had a partner?
Dr. Robert Ford : Yeah. When the legend becomes fact, you print the legend. My business partners were more than happy to scrub him from the records, and I suppose I didn't discourage them. His name was Arnold.
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Dr. Robert Ford : Our hosts began to pass the Turing test after the first year. But that wasn't enough for Arnold. He wasn't interested in the appearance of intellect or wit. He wanted the real thing. He wanted to create consciousness. He imagined it as a pyramid. Memory, improvisation, self-interest.
Bernard Lowe : And at the top?
Dr. Robert Ford : Never got there. But he had a notion of what it might be. He based it on a theory of consciousness called "the bicameral mind."
Bernard Lowe : The idea that primitive man believed his thoughts to be the voice of the gods. I thought it was debunked.
Dr. Robert Ford : As the theory for understanding the human mind, perhaps, but not as a blueprint for building an artificial one.
