The vision is great, but the thinking is boundless

Elwyn 2022-04-22 07:01:05

However, in the process of tracing, Motoko Kusanagi questioned the meaning of existence and the boundary between the human body and the prosthetic body again and again. "If human beings are like machines, their bodies can be replaced, their memories can be modified, and when they can live forever, what exactly is a human being? What is the meaning of existence?" What is a shell? When our human body can already be replaced by a machine, what is that person? Is it human to have consciousness? Consciousness can also be changed. Not only can it be changed by the Internet, but the Internet can also have its own consciousness. Does the Internet count as a human being? That truck driver's job is for his wife and daughter, but his memory is transplanted. He is completely stupid, and his consciousness can be changed, so he is still not human? If not human, what is the significance of his actions? Does this directly obliterate the right to exist if he is a person whose memory has been modified? What is the definition of man? consciousness? memory? or behavior? or something else? We cling to memories, but they don't define us, it's our actions that define us. Are we still human if we stop clinging to memory? (If thinking determines behavior) They want to achieve human evolution through us, but in the end we surpass them. How to define human beings, body or soul? How to define the soul? thinking or memory

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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!