"Ghost in the Shell" is divided into four parts, two TV versions and two theatrical versions. I have seen them all, and more than once. Since the TV version and the theatrical version are not very closely related, I will not introduce them here. Now, I wrote this article today for myself, no, it can be said that every article I write is for myself, to record and preserve a memory, a footprint that leaves traces in your life.
I don't want to repeat the content, I just want to feel the authentic world of Oshii Mori and Shirou, feel what he thinks, and feel what he tastes, but to understand Caesar does not necessarily have to be Caesar (Max Weber "Understanding". category of society"), isn't it?
who are we? We are human. So, what is a human being? Human beings are a kind of living beings, a kind of higher creatures, a kind of living beings. What is life? Life is a process that includes birth, reproduction, and death. Born, the way we came into the world. Reproduction, which is the most important duty and responsibility of a living being: the continuation of the species. But why breed? Wouldn't a simple copy be better? Replicas are just the same image, a virus is likely to destroy the entire system, replicas will not produce changes and creativity, life is immortal through change, which includes sacrificing itself if necessary (Darwin's theory of evolution), cells repeat the process of degeneration and regeneration , until one day death, forget all the memory and information, only the genes remain. Why repeat this process? Just want to avoid the flaws due to the stability of the system in order to stay alive. Therefore, we are not only ourselves, but part of our body comes from our parents, whose genes create our shells. The human body is composed of countless components, and these components also create people's unique personalities. Of course, our Faces and voices are also different from others, and our memories are also unique to us. We also have our own destiny. These are just a small part of them. We also have personal ways of collecting information. The individual and our notions of good and evil.
So who are we? We are individuals made up of DNA and memories, we call ourselves human because we have a sense of ourselves, but we are not yet complete because we lack the most important things, reproduction and death.
Masamune Shirou used half of the story to tell us about life, but he raised a question that made everyone think deeply:
When the machine can feel, who decides what is human? When the machine can feel, who decides what is human?
When the machine learns to think, who decides what is human? ?
If in the future, as described in "Ghost in the Shell", when the boundaries between humans and machines gradually blur, who will decide? What exactly is a soul? If a machine self-generates a soul, who decides whether it is human? These questions are not something that ordinary people can understand, and Oshii Mori also raised and realized the question of Shirou Zhengzong, and did not explain it.
Those brainwashed people in "Ghost in the Shell" are pitiful. Their memories have been erased. Just imagine, what would happen if you were not you now? All your memory is just a series of programs, just like the whole world of "The Matrix" is just an illusion, what is real? Is it what you see, what you hear, what you taste, what you feel? Wrong, honey, it's just brain waves, what's real? The truth is to be experienced by the heart. (The Matrix borrows some of the worldview from Ghost in the Shell.)
We're on a planet called Earth. The world as we know it is only a drop in the ocean. There is a poem that says it very well: a world of sand, a paradise of flowers. No one knows that our world may be just a speck of dust in another world. What we are doing now is only trying to explore the world and expand the space and time we understand. Human life is limited, which is why we need to record history and record what happened in the past. This is not just a lesson from the past, but a An affirmation of self-existence.
"If the gods we believe in and the hopes we pursue are only scientifically quantified, is our love also scientifically quantified?" - Cole Adam's "Future Eve" (Note: "Future Eve": with The inventor Edison explores whether the humanoid is an ideal female-based novel. Villie de Lille Adam French writer)
"Ghost in the Shell 2 - Innocence" raised such a controversial issue at the beginning.
If it is really like the world of "Ghost in the Shell", what is the difference between humans and machines? Humans and robots are different, but that belief is just the difference between black and white. This level of meaning determines the understanding that humans are not just machines. The existence of doll robots has nothing to do with utilitarianism and pragmatism. Why do they Is it a humanoid, and is it necessary to make an ideal humanoid? Why do humans want to make a form similar to themselves? A child is outside what is usually called human norms, that is to say, a person who has a definite self and acts completely according to his own consciousness can be called a person. So as a pre-human stage, what are the children living in chaos? It is obvious that the inner part is different from human beings but has the appearance of human beings. The dolls that girls have played with are not substitutes or contact props for real babies. The girls are not doing parenting exercises or playing with dolls and practical things. Parenting is probably the same thing, which means that parenting is the quickest way to realize the ancient dream of creating an android. Is there a difference between a child and a doll? Descartes, who could not distinguish between human and mechanical creatures and non-living creatures, made a doll named Francine after his daughter who died at the age of five and spoiled it.
"The individual created and the individual is the expression of heredity" (British biologist Charlie Dawkins "Extended Phenotype") If the essence of life is information transmitted through DNA, society and culture are nothing more than It is a huge machine translation system, and the city is just a huge external memory device. "God, your thoughts and their multitude are more than the sand of the sea if I count them" (Old Testament verse 139).
"Ghost in the Shell 2 - Innocence" not only continues and further explains the problems in "Ghost in the Shell 1", but most importantly, it summarizes the similarities and differences between humans and dolls in a poem: life and
death Go,
shed head puppet.
When the line is broken, it
falls and falls.
Once a person dies, he is like a puppet on a boxcar. When the thread is cut, it falls apart and everything returns to nothingness.
If you really talk about beautiful dolls, they are also living people without souls. It is better to be a doll than a corpse that is struggling to die. In terms of the beauty of gestures and movements, human beings, no, in fact, existence itself is not as good as puppets. The defects of human cognitive ability have led to the incompleteness of its reality. The completeness of a race depends on the disappearance of a moment or the existence of infinity. Therefore, only puppets or gods are perfect realizations, and there is another existence that can rival puppets and gods—animals. Self-conscious creatures like us are absolutely out of reach, and indulging in unconscious pleasure as a descendant of one who covets the fruit of "knowledge" is harder to do than a god.
The Master said, "How can you know death if you don't know your life?" "There are very few people who can understand death. Most people are not fully enlightened, but they are accustomed to patience because of their stupidity." Is it really alive? Is the opposite of inanimate things alive? To ask why dolls are disturbing is because dolls are the prototype of human beings, that is, human beings themselves. The fear of whether human beings are reduced to simple institutions and substances, that is, whether human beings are inherently nothingness, the science that attempts to explain the phenomenon of life also contributes to the formation of this fear. This belief of natural calculability leads to the conclusion that human beings can also be reduced to mere mechanical parts: "The human body is a self-winding machine, a living model of perpetual motion" (French medical scientist La Maitrie "Man is a Machine" 》) Human mechanism has been revived with the help of computerized and alienated technologies. From the moment when the external storage of memory became possible with the help of computers, in order to expand the upper limit of biological skills, human beings have actively continued the road of mechanizing themselves, which is beyond Darwin's theory of natural elimination. The will that people show in trying to use their own power to get rid of the constraints of evolutionary theory, and the will to transcend the nature that nurtured them, and imagine more perfect hardware for life equipment, is the source of this nightmare. ("God is always geometry - Platonic")
Human beings are but material for weaving dreams called life.
Dreams and perceptions, no, even souls are cracks or distortions in the uniform matrix. There is no difference at all between recall and memory, and whichever it is, facts are always the only test of truth. Do the wife and daughter waiting at home really exist? No, is it originally by myself or single and just dreaming of a home in a certain room? If you want to seek proof of your own existence, you have to have your soul.
Humans have always avoided being someone else's puppet, and this is fully expounded in The Puppet Life. If we can control a living person, what are we going to do, and what do the puppets who are controlled by others think of themselves? But "the blood of birds is pitiful, and the wounds of fish are not asked." ——What will happen to the dolls that have been given a soul? But someone has asked the doll if he wants to be human?
I know this article is obscure, but keep reading and your life will change.
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