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Batou: [on radio] So what's the latest word on your "Puppet Master"?
Batou: [pause as the chief watches the witness on monitor] Chief? Are you there? Come in...
Section 9 Department Chief Aramaki: He's only a puppet himself...
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Puppet Master: It can also be argued that DNA is nothing more than a program designed to preserve itself. Life has become more complex in the overwhelming sea of information. And life, when organized into species, relies upon genes to be its memory system. So, man is an individual only because of his intangible memory... and memory cannot be defined, but it defines mankind. The advent of computers, and the subsequent accumulation of incalculable data has given rise to a new system of memory and thought parallel to your own. Humanity has underestimated the consequences of computerization.
Masato Yamanouchi
Extended Reading
