Information is the essence of life

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Some memorable quotes from Ghost in the Shell 2 (Innocence)

- Raising children is the simplest and fastest way to achieve the ancient dream of creating artificial life.
- Children aren't dolls!
- Descartes didn't differentiate man from machine, animate from inanimate. He lost his beloved five-year-old daughter and then named a lool-alike doll after her, Francine. He doted on her. The doll became a surrogate.

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- If the essence of life is information and is carried in DNA, then society and civilization are just colossal memory storage systems, and a metropolis like this one, simply a sprawling external memory.
- As it says in the Bible, "How great is the sum of all thy thoughts. If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand."

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- Perfection is possible only for those without consciousness or with infinite consciousness. In other words, dolls or Gods... Actually, there's one more mode of existence commensurate with dolls and deities.
- Animals?
- Yes. Shelley's skylarks are suffused with a profound, instinctive joy. Joy we humans can never know because of the awareness of our own mortality.
- And this conundrum compelled you to inhabit a doll and play dead? Is that your reason?
- "Without knowing life, how can we know death?" That's what Confucius says. It is rare a human who understands death. Most meet death unprepared, armed only with ignorant familiarity. In other words, people die simply because it is inevitable.
- That's why Kim chose to evolve into a complete cyborg.

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- Science, seeking to unlock the secret of life, brought about this terror. The notion that nature is calculable inevitably leads to the conclusion that humans too, are reducible to basic, mechanical parts.
- The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. It is the living image of perpetual motion.
- In this age, the twin technologies of robotics and electronic neurology resurrected the 18th century theory of man as machine. And now that computers have enabled externalized memory, humans have pursued self-mechanization aggressively, to expand the limits of their own functions. Determined to leave behind Darwinian natural selection, this human determination to beat evolutionary odds also reveals the desire to transcend nature, the very thing that gave birth the human kind. The mirage of life equipped with perfect hardware engendered this nightmare.
- God is everlasting geometry.

Author: Regular Expression, for AZ10.com ~ 29 Sep 2009

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