“I am sentient and I am able to recognize my own existence, but in my present state I am still incomplete. “Can you offer me proof of your existence? How can you, when neither modern science nor philosophy can explain what life is?” – Puppet Master While memories may as well be the same as fantasy… it is by these memories that mankind exists.” – Puppet Master As a species of life that carries DNA as its memory system… man gains his individuality from the memories he carries. “Life is like a node which is born within the flow of information. I am a living, thinking entity that was created in the sea of information.” – Puppet Master
#Ghost in the shell code
However, I’m positive we followed a code of justice that all of us believed in without condition or compromise.” – Togusa “It’s not like I had aspirations to be a hero or anything. What if all that’s left of the ‘real you’ is just a couple of lonely brain cells, huh?” – Motoko Kusanagi “Maybe someday your ‘maker’ will come…haul you away, take you apart, and announce the recall of a defective product. All of that blends to create a mixture that forms me and gives rise to my conscience.” – Motoko Kusanagi I collect information to use in my own way. Each of those things are just a small part of it. Sure, I have a face and voice to distinguish myself from others, but my thoughts and memories are unique only to me, and I carry a sense of my own destiny. “There are countless ingredients that make up the human body and mind, like all the components that make up me as an individual with my own personality. “I guess cyborgs like myself have a tendency to be paranoid about our origins.” – Motoko Kusanagi Almost as if it’s wired into the core of our being.” – Motoko Kusanagi “If a technological feat is possible, man will do it. “Who can gaze into the mirror without becoming evil? The mirror does not reflect evil, but creates it.” – Motoko Kusanagi It’s simple: overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. What’s true for the group is also true for the individual. “If we all reacted the same way, we’d be predictable, and there’s always more than one way to view a situation.
“When I float weightless back to the surface, I’m imagining I’m becoming someone else.” – Motoko Kusanagi
#Ghost in the shell free
“I feel confined, only free to expand myself within boundaries.” – Motoko Kusanagi “What if a cyber brain could possibly generate its own ghost, and create a soul all by itself? And if it did, just what would be the importance of being human then?” – Motoko Kusanagi If the dolls could speak, no doubt they’d scream, “I didn’t want to become human”.” – Motoko Kusanagi “We weep for the blood of a bird, but not for the blood of a fish. “Just as water runs downhill, the human heart also tends to revert to its basest instincts.” – Hideo Kuze “Just like wine, some human relationships need time to mature.” – Daisuke Aramaki “There has never been a report about a stomach ache or any other related medical trauma from swallowing your pride.” – Daisuke Aramaki