{"id":489,"date":"2015-10-21T20:37:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T01:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/?p=489"},"modified":"2015-10-21T20:37:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T01:37:35","slug":"differentiating-humans-and-other-entities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/2015\/10\/differentiating-humans-and-other-entities\/","title":{"rendered":"Differentiating Humans and Other Entities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While watching <em>Ghost in the Shell<\/em>, I was most intrigued by the new ideas presented about what differentiates humans from others. While Kusanagi and Batou are in the car before the car chase scene, Kusanagi discusses why she chose Batou. She implies that without human brains, the actions of cyborgs would be too predictable to be successful. Perhaps, it is human\u2019s unpredictability that separates us. However, that can be programmed into other entities, making unpredictability an invalid answer. Later, while the Puppet Master is controlling the female body he communicates, \u201cMan is an individual only because of his intangible memory, and memory cannot be defined, but it defines mankind\u201d. While the Puppet Master delivers the lines, the picture is an unmoving, zoomed shot, as we started to discuss in class. I think the image of the face was framed in this way to minimize distractions from the important message. Without movement of the body or camera, the voice-over becomes the only focus. The Puppet Master\u2019s claim seems to build on Kusanagi\u2019s earlier thoughts that her ghost is her own. But what does the term ghost truly encapsulate? Defining one\u2019s ghost as their soul seems too vague for me. One\u2019s ghost could possibly be defined as the collection of experiences used to consciously or unconsciously shape their actions, thoughts, and feelings. However, I believe that through complex coding, this process of letting past interactions effect future responses could also be written into other entities. Leading me to question still, is there any difference between humans and others?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Note: Unfortunately, my movie rental has expired so I could not include the time of each scene. However, a link to the second scene is below. I could not find a video of the first scene I described.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YZX58fDhebc\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YZX58fDhebc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The line I discussed is stated around 3:00.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While watching Ghost in the Shell, I was most intrigued by the new ideas presented about what differentiates humans from others. While Kusanagi and Batou are in the car before the car chase scene, Kusanagi discusses why she chose Batou. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/2015\/10\/differentiating-humans-and-other-entities\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}