Ghost in the Shell - Reflections on the Future

Yessenia 2022-04-20 09:01:29

I've been looking for a movie about cyberpunk. The second brush, I have a new feeling for the future artificial intelligence.

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The geisha robot showed an emotional scene when it was killed by Mila. In the future, artificial intelligence will become more and more perfect and popular, and the robot will also be endowed with thoughts. The thinking mechanical body and the human mind enter the mechanical body. What's the difference?

When we put on prosthetic limbs, it's like the ship of Theseus, like the human body is replaced with new cells every seven years...

Are we still ourselves in a different body?

"Fantasy, reality, dreams, and memories are all the same, just illusions." This is similar to the Buddhist thought of "all appearances are false".

From a functional point of view, the boat is still the original boat, because its role and function have not changed because of the material. The same is true of people. Whether the body is the original body or not does not affect people's thoughts and behaviors.

The electronic brain of the murderer was implanted into a new memory by Kusei's memory. He firmly believes that he has a wife and children. How can we prove that the reality we think is just the reality that others make us think? This is also something we need to think about.

To quote Darlene in the film: "We cling to memory as if it could give us personality, but it's not, it's our actions that give us personality."

Ironically, there is a huge advertisement in the film - "Beauty is born and built", as well as the genetic recombination mentioned in the advertisement, the future body will only be the body, appearance, and IQ. Factors will not be important determinants of what differentiates people. The cat still likes Mila after seeing her changed appearance, which just proves that in the age of intelligence, it is the soul and the mind that distinguishes people.

Finally, she found her memory and recognized her mother.

Kuze's many resurrections also show that the body will eventually decay, but the mind will last forever. law

In the first part of the film, Kusei is the villain and is defined as a cruel murderer. In the end, the truth slowly emerges. Jiu Shi is just a poor man who is unwilling to be arranged and wants to control his own life. When I thought this part was forcibly washed. When Bai Shi was shot to death, it is unknown whether his later thoughts were resurrected in other bodies. Even if he did something for a reason, he still could not erase the fact that he murdered. This shows that the bottom line of the rule of law and morality still exists no matter what era.

It also reflects the law that the processing of memory requires the consent of the person.

Today's society is becoming more and more intelligent and internationalized, the feelings between people are getting weaker, and the moral concept is gradually shallow. At this time, the meaning of the existence of the law is more profound. What distinguishes people from animals is that people are ashamed and disgusted. , the law allows the preservation of human privacy, distinguishing it from machines that are fully formatted and transparent.

This is the balance between man and machine in the age of intelligence.

Overall, the picture processing and special effects production have allowed me to see more possibilities of artificial intelligence in the future and the direction of future life.

Even in a technologically advanced future, there are dilapidated slums. As ordinary people, we should be based on today's society and work hard to realize our life value.

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Extended Reading

Ghost in the Shell quotes

  • Batou: [Batou just got new eyes] Say something nice.

    Major: You chose those?

    Batou: They're tactical.

  • Major: Tell me who you are.

    Kuze: I am that which you seek to destroy. In this life, my name is Kuze.

    Major: What are you doing to me?

    Kuze: I have connected you to a network of my own creation. When I am finished in this world, my ghost can survive there and regenerate.

    Major: What do you want from me?

    Kuze: I became fascinated with you, reading your code while you were inside that geisha. Like nothing I had felt before and yet so... familiar. We are the same.

    Major: We are not the same. You kill innocent people.

    Kuze: "Innocent", is that what you call them? I am as they made me.

    Major: Who made you?

    Kuze: What have they told you? That you were the first? The first cerebral salvage? You were born of lessons took from my failure.

    Major: What are you talking about?

    Kuze: I was conscious while they dismembered my body and discarded me like garbage. I was lying on a table, listening to doctors talk about how my mind had not meshed with the shell that they had built, how Project 2571 had failed, and they had to move on to you.

    [removes a piece of Major's face]

    Kuze: What a beauty you are. They have improved us so much since they made me. They thought we would be a part of their evolution, but they have created us to evolve alone... beyond them.

    Major: "Evolution", that's what you call killing everyone who made you?

    Kuze: You're not listening to me.

    Major: You're a murderer.

    Kuze: They tried to kill me first. It is self-defense; defense of self! More will die until they tell me what they took!