Recently, I revisited the 95 theatrical version again. The CG of fifteen years ago looks quite old now, and it is not the same as the gorgeous effect today, but it still has the magical power, maybe this is the GHOST of the film itself. At the beginning of the movie, against the dark background, Moko’s body is formed bit by bit. With Kenji Kawai’s ethereal and psychedelic puppet rumor, there is a panic of apocalypse that slowly penetrates, as if by a pair of invisible gods. Manipulating by hand. The total fear that Oshii brings to people is to strip away all the causes of the body, and let the existence of the soul face the infinite loneliness of nothingness.
Among the characters in the ANIME world that I know, Moko is probably the one who gives people the strongest sense of nothingness. Except for the brain, the whole body was replaced with a prosthetic body. Using this almost ironic way to obtain the immortal immortality of human dreams, it made her question whether this kind of self is still human. If the soul must be attached to the physical existence, who can prove that one's own GHOST is not a product of procedural generation? The entangled questions in the entire Ghost in the Shell are derived from the most basic question of Mozi. The high sensitivity to AI growth, the stubborn use of female prostheses, and the watch that retains the stop time of the body are all her attempts to argue against her existence as a human or once as a human being. She is really a person with a very indifferent sense of survival. Her body can be replaced at any time. Even if it is damaged, there is nothing terrible. So she has no scruples and has no pity on her body. It seems that only the battle itself can make her prove to herself. exist. Every time I see her almost disillusioned fighting style, I always feel terrified and sad.
GIS thinks differently for everyone. For me, maybe I just think of what is the most important thing about human beings. People's desire for material and power are almost all dependent on the existence of the flesh. When a person loses his flesh, what he can leave at the end can belong to him. What is the thing that he still cares about? Is it love? Without the body, there is only the love of the soul. Is it possible to exist? For Bart, he was attracted by the existence of Moko. For him, Moko is the only woman in the world, but there is no body that can hug each other, and he can't even be sure of the reality of existence. Let Moko use this kind of love as The basis for survival is too fragile and far-fetched.
The problem of element seems to be a matter of the first nature of the matter or the first nature of the spirit. If the personality is synthesized by procedural simulation, maybe he died a long time ago, or maybe Mozi has never existed before, just like the sanitation worker whose memory has been forged, he thinks he has a separated wife, and is as lovely as an angel. His daughter, however, has lived alone for ten years in real life. The photo of his cherished daughter is actually only himself. The memory has been tampered with, the past disappeared, and the GHOST in the body has disappeared with the memory. Mo Zi therefore doubted himself. Although there is still a brain, who has seen his own brain? What is the existence of human beings? Different from others' appearance, character, family, social relations, and past memories, it confirms the individual as a person, and at the same time creates boundaries that the individual cannot surpass. But if all these can be made by artificial means, what else can be the definition of human beings? Is this GHOST whispering to himself the only life-saving straw that can be grasped at this moment? If even it is procedurally generated...
In fact, if man is a creation of God, technology does the same thing. Artificial humans are taboo, not because they cannot be technically done, but because humans cannot be as wise as gods.
Bart’s love for Suzi and the trust of her partners may be able to establish an individual’s position in these social relationships, but for Suzi who has too strong self-awareness, these are not enough reasons for her existence, so she finally gave up the body and entered the network . In the material world, it is like death, but in the online world, it becomes an eternal god.
AI, GHOST, and the Internet have become another frightening proposition. If the program can achieve the purpose of creating people, the network is the reproduction of the world-the intricate world composed of the connections, behaviors, and information exchanges between people. Interpersonal communication can now be reproduced on the Internet. It is not difficult to imagine that when AI develops to a certain extent, the program is likely to become an independent personality, and even self-reproduction. The human consciousness that wanders the Internet may be indistinguishable from that of AI. If there is a complete simulated personality, even after death, the personality may continue to exist on the Internet. That will form a completely new type of society, which means that GHOST can be separated from the existence of SHELL, and the society where humans interact with entities may collapse. Humans use programs to create GHOST and use the Internet to create the world, in an attempt to become the god of the new world. But the likely result is that human beings are replaced by the GHOST of the Internet.
What is a person? Why should people exist? In other words, why should I exist? In a riddled reality, it seems very meaningless to investigate these issues. If the Internet is regarded as a metaphor for human social relations, whether our individual existence is only determined by the nodes in the social relations. When these interpersonal relationships are severed, how do people define their own existence? Does not exist in human society, does it mean that you as a person do not exist? If the world is material, and people must rely on a physical body to establish their own existence, then what is the GHOST of losing SHELL? If human beings are just a phenomenon, the continuation of life is nothing more than the continuation of phenomena, and society is just a combination of phenomena, what can't be destroyed? All sorrows, joys, everything is meaningless? Hinduism says that the world is a dream of Brahma. When the Brahma dream wakes up, the world will start again, but Brahma is in another god's dream, and everything ends in nothingness.
In EVA, the second Ayanami said that he is a person who can be replaced even if he is dead. His memory can be copied continuously, his personality can be simulated, and he can be completely regenerated as an individual. But why is he still sad about the imminent death? There is always something that will die with this death. Perhaps only this one-off that will die and cannot be replaced, or only this sadness, is what a person can truly have.
Some understand why philosophy can deconstruct the entire world. Without thinking about these issues, talents can survive without any worries. But if you don't want to understand these problems, living is just living. I don't know if those guys really understand this. If this is the case, they should not fear death, and perhaps even rejoice for their own fears. This is caused by individual fears. Isn't it the reality of individual existence? Can't find a fulcrum, rely on feelings—because feelings are just waves floating in the sea of nothingness, how can they truly appreciate the beauty of feelings? Everything given to you will eventually turn into emptiness, so it is impossible to fight for anything from the heart. It may be possible to use science to deconstruct the cause of emptiness, but this emptiness is indeed unsolvable intellectually. If the world is vain, how can we love this world? Love the plants, wind, water, and life? But people will still love. The world itself is the reason for existence. If only complete pessimism can be deduced intellectually, how to explain this kind of "futility"? There must be an answer beyond reason. Therefore, the existence of the world must be meaningful. It's just that our wisdom can't figure out the meaning of this. It is true that love is not the answer to everything, it may only be the sustenance of faith. Eternity is not either, because I don’t know what true eternity is. What if it’s just a dream of Brahma? It may take great wisdom to give answers, what is the world, what are people, what are you and me. If I know and I can believe it, it will make people believe and be happy. I cannot answer the question now. You can only rely on these mundane and boring things to restrain the individual's existence in this world, and can only pray to forget the eternal fear, but be afraid that one day will be tired and be swallowed by the eternal nothingness. I am so obsessed with phenomena, obsessed with everything that can be shared in this world. We were neither born deliberately in this world nor made a mistake by mistake. Even if it's just vain, you have the right to get all this.
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