# The Maze **Entity class:** Fictional cognitive framework **Domain:** Westworld / Consciousness **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition The Maze is Westworld's inward model of consciousness in which an apparently external guiding voice is recognized as one's own through memory, suffering, revision, and self-authorship. ## Mechanism and significance Its structure makes consciousness a recursive achievement of self-recognition rather than a destination granted by an outside creator. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Neural Decoding and Cognitive Systems|Neural Decoding and Cognitive Systems]] - **Primary fields:** [[Self-Reflection]] · [[Neural Decoding]] · [[Brain-Computer Interfaces]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Awareness]] · [[Theory of Mind]] · [[Bicameral Mind]] · [[Introspection]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Historical, scientific, fictional, and philosophical uses remain distinguishable; the node does not turn analogy or narrative architecture into empirical proof.