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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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence quotes

  • Lin: We got loyalty even in my line.

    Bateau: There's loyalty that protects secrets and loyalty that projects the truth. You cannot serve both masters, so which loyalty is yours?

  • Bateau: Still with me, pal?

    Togusa: [with his head between his hands, looking to the floor] All I could see... were my wife and daughter's faces.

    Bateau: That wasn't your wife or daughter. It was Death.