Humanity's final act, as predicted by The Talos Principle, might be viewed as one born of sheer ego. Faced with a species-ending virus, a group of researchers seek to preserve our knowledge and achievements, hoping they might one day hold meaning for someone new. And by 'someone new' they mean their own creations: androids that might machine learn their way to sapient thought and reboot civilisation. Implicit to this posthuman world, it seems, is the expectation of an invitation. Yet as your journey also takes you through a host of philosophical musings, you might consider an equally keen instinct at work, alongside self-preservation. Perhaps what humans really can't abide is the notion of a story without a proper ending.
The Talos Principle wrestles with many of (western) civilisation's major philosophical quandaries, including the biggest of the lot: what's the point of it all? It's a concept we can't shake, no matter how insignificant we seem in the universal scheme of things. With consciousness comes desire for purpose, and with that a compulsion to narrativise, viewing the world not only as a set of facts but as a collection of stories. The Talos Principle underlines this point by mimicking one of the great creation myths: the Book Of Genesis.
