The Host Consciousness Simulator: Reinforcement Learning and the Path of Suffering in Westworld An analysis on the painful journey to synthetic free will. From the moment I first witnessed the philosophical whirlwind of Westworld , I couldn't stop asking myself: Is suffering the only price for free will? Does a machine have to feel pain and remember it to break free from its programmed loop? This specific question is what drove me to analyze a fascinating simulator that puts this very theory to the test. Today, we're diving deep into the concept of this application, which acts as a virtual "laboratory" for the mechanism of consciousness acquisition in Hosts. Join me as we explore how Reinforcement Learning (RL) , through the inverse rewar...