Ghost in the Shell - Notes

 Ghost in the Shell 

  • Cartesian method

    • Intro 

    • Thesis

    • Antithesis

    • Synthesis (+/-)

    • Conclusion

      • Choose a side

    • If we are part human/part machine, do Asimov’s rules still apply?

      • A robot may not injure a human being orm through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm

      • A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law

      • A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws

Movie

  • Thats a lot of police men

    • Political asylum

  • HIS BRAIN JUST POPPED OPEN 

  • this intro goes hard

  • Some political drama oooo 

    • It's all about this one guy

    • Her brain was hacked? 

      • Puppet master, infiltrating terminal

      • Reaching the Ghost? 

        • Roll credits

    • What is a ghost?

  • Oh by plugging in, she can access the web

    • OH GIRL SLAY GET HIM 

    • Hong Kong vibes- very different from the city we saw earlier. Less developed

    • They are destroying this man’s brain what- Ghosthacked human? So he’s a human, but he’s been hacked 

      • He’s a puppet of the puppet master

  • Simulated experience

    • All memories are simulated experiences 

      • She and the garbage man have the same eyes - no blinking

  • Oh she's a cyborg

    • Feels cold, alone, hope while swimming- can imagine herself as someone else

    • Controlled metabolism, augmented brains

      • Thoughts and memories and sense of density are unique -> individualism

  • Classified cyborg- a ghost present

  • What's with the sections, what do they mean? 

    • Could a cyber brain create a soul? 

  • Section 6 is suspecioussss - one of the two guys are def cyborgs 

  • Body using own powers

    • The cyborg demands political asylum- argument in biology and DNA 

      • Project 2501 - Living, thinking entity created in the sea of information

        • Is this gal the puppet master?

  • Oh Major is having some morality issues about the puppet masters 

    • Puppet master is creating a political discourse of sorts - called project 2501

  • Oh damn, he just got exploded- other cop is a baddie

    • Oh hes worried about major 

    • Tank disguised by thermocampflage

    • Why is there a heart beating? 

      • GIRL WHAT WAS THE PLAN HERE

        • WHY IS MAJOR NOW A TARGET WHAT DID SHE DO

          • OH its section 6 

      • I love the tank, looks like a destroyer

    • 2501 started as an espionage technique, tried to be contained in a physical body- 

      • More biology - genetic variation, diversity 

      • This is getting too philosphical for me honestly to be honest 

        • Is this a religious allegory?

  • DID SHE DIE????

    • Paper : lean into the biology and the biological arguments of project 2501 

    • Does she have a heartbeat right now? 

      • Shell = body with cybernetics 

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