Ghost In The Shell is one of a relatively small number of movies that convincingly imagines what living in a non-organic body might feel like. What might it mean if the organic bit of us were taken away? What would remain, and how would its absence change us? It’s something we’ll never know for sure until our souls fly the nest in the real world, but Ghost In The Shell presents the sensation as being a kind of melancholy or emptiness. Pain, hunger, fatigue, the desire to procreate these are the instincts which drive us, and they’re all tied to being a living, breathing organism. An absence of a biological body is presented as a kind of numbness, a detachment from the self and other people. Then again, there’s a melancholy sense of disconnection in Ghost In The Shell which might imply that all is not perfect in the transhuman future. The benefits of inhabiting a body which can be repaired, updated, or replaced altogether speaks for itself: sickness and disease could, in theory, be abolished forever the transhuman generation would be the first to grow up without even considering the possibility of death. ![]() Ghost In The Shell is a sober and detached exploration of what we might gain from transhumanism and what could be taken away.
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