Media Analysis of Ghost in the Shell
The Ghost in the Shell
Imagine a world where your mind could be transfer to another body, the possibilities that comprehending how the human mind works and tampering with it. Now what does that mean for us as science reaches a point where we can altered the very things that we use to define ourselves, whether it be our body or its memories. In Oshii’s film The Ghost in the Shell we follow the character of Major Motoko Kusanagi in a futuristic cyberpunk Japan. In Kusanagi’s world we enter a society that has become capable of enhancing the human body with cybernetic implants as well as creating full bodies for individuals. Here we have a society that we can transcend the limitations our bodies have and enhanced ourselves to become better humans
In this world Motoko is a part of an elite anti-terrorism unit, called section 9, that is tracking down a cyber-terrorist amply named The Puppet Master that is coercing civilians to enact his deeds. But he isn’t simply physically forcing people to do his whims he alters everything about their mind to cause them to completely believe in the life he recreates for them to serve his purposes. In one scene it is revealed to one of his puppets that everything that he believed in was a falsely constructed life and his memories were fabricated by The Puppet Master who was using him to carry out his will. Memories, or at least the definitions that we use to define life as we know it, were forgotten and then a different one was put in its place. That is the future that science takes us and strive to be able to. We are struggling to securely understand the complexities of the human mind but what happens when science can figure out how to move memories, delete them, and even alter them.
Motoko is a cyber-human who apparently has been given a completely man-made body to do her work for section 9 and she struggles with the notion of whether her mind is the actual Motoko Kusanagi. She is a human who doesn’t have a human body, we are
Imagine a world where your mind could be transfer to another body, the possibilities that comprehending how the human mind works and tampering with it. Now what does that mean for us as science reaches a point where we can altered the very things that we use to define ourselves, whether it be our body or its memories. In Oshii’s film The Ghost in the Shell we follow the character of Major Motoko Kusanagi in a futuristic cyberpunk Japan. In Kusanagi’s world we enter a society that has become capable of enhancing the human body with cybernetic implants as well as creating full bodies for individuals. Here we have a society that we can transcend the limitations our bodies have and enhanced ourselves to become better humans
In this world Motoko is a part of an elite anti-terrorism unit, called section 9, that is tracking down a cyber-terrorist amply named The Puppet Master that is coercing civilians to enact his deeds. But he isn’t simply physically forcing people to do his whims he alters everything about their mind to cause them to completely believe in the life he recreates for them to serve his purposes. In one scene it is revealed to one of his puppets that everything that he believed in was a falsely constructed life and his memories were fabricated by The Puppet Master who was using him to carry out his will. Memories, or at least the definitions that we use to define life as we know it, were forgotten and then a different one was put in its place. That is the future that science takes us and strive to be able to. We are struggling to securely understand the complexities of the human mind but what happens when science can figure out how to move memories, delete them, and even alter them.
Motoko is a cyber-human who apparently has been given a completely man-made body to do her work for section 9 and she struggles with the notion of whether her mind is the actual Motoko Kusanagi. She is a human who doesn’t have a human body, we are