A symphony of man and machine

Joaquin 2022-03-20 09:02:17

When I first saw the first movie version and TV version, I didn't feel it, but when I watched "Innocent", I was completely moved. Especially in the part of entering the city, in the background of Noh music, we shuttled through tall and gorgeous buildings, immersed in the combination of Gothic architecture and Chinese culture, and from that moment, I was addicted to "Ghost in the Shell".
I ran to Baidu Tieba and took a look. The fans are staying old. I am really the oldest loyal audience.
In the process of watching the second season, I suddenly felt the indifference and unease of the sentient beings in the Nine Sections of the Public Security. If a person becomes a prosthetic body, he will always fall into the fear of being rejected by others as an alien, and normal human beings must maintain their superiority by rejecting prosthetics that are better than themselves, and overcome the fear of being replaced.
Machines and people are approaching each other. Asimov describes the extent to which machines are called humans, Masamune Shirou considers the extent to which humans become machines, and Wachowski discusses who is superior to humans and machines.
A person who is fully embodied, as long as he still has a human mind, he is still a human being, right?
If the whole body is alienated into a machine that is not like a human, and retains the human mind, can it be accepted as the same kind?
A person who is fully embodied, if he thinks like a beast, is he still a person?
If you were incarnated from birth, would you believe you were human?
If machines can think, do they have the right to say they are human?
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I always wanted to take the time to write a story about the soul that lives on the Internet. It is separated from the body and does not rely on the prosthetic body. It wanders on the Internet and is stored in the CPU. Life doesn't stop.

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Extended Reading
  • Ethel 2022-01-07 15:54:54

    I like the little detail that Bart helps the dog put his ears outside the food bowl when he feeds the dog.

  • Angelita 2022-01-07 15:54:54

    Togusa has a daughter, her daughter has a baby, and Bart has a hunting dog. In this desolate world, there is always something to be nurtured to form a bond. The doll of artificial sex calls for help, the child who clones the soul calls for self, the soul-walking Shao Zuo calls for happiness, and the call for vocalization is still lucky. What is life, I know death. At the festival of flying catfish, does wearing a mask change the soul? In the network of the ocean of information, does the life change when the body is changed?

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence quotes

  • Major Motoko Kusanagi: We weep for a bird's cry, but not for a fish's blood. Blessed are those with a voice. If the dolls also had voices, they would have screamed, "I didn't want to become human."

  • [first title cards]: In a future time when most human thought has been accelerated by artificial intelligence and external memory can be shared on a universal matrix, Batou, an agent of the elite Section 9 Security Force and a being so artificially modified as to be essentially cyborg, is assigned, along with his mostly human partner, Togusa, to investigate a series of gruesome murders.