During the week, I am completely without internet. I am working with my dad building houses out on an indian reserve, and because one of the secretaries and I disagree, I am without internet for the 5 days I am out there, working on the reserve. For someone like myself, this is like being disconnected from the khala, lifestream, or whatever greater flow of knowledge you can think of. It's like not being able to make bishops or rooks in chess (that's the lowest tier comparison I can think of atm).
Anyways, during my time at home where I have the internet and such to soak myself in, I decided to watch Ghost in the Shell (an anime that I physically own). I decided to watch GitS because I watched Tekkonkinkreet and Tekkonkinkreet influenced me in a way that only Ghost in the Shell ever has. Anyways, I was thinking (a thing that you should be doing while watching GitS) as I was watching GitS "hey, it would be cool if I had a philosophy class that was about anime or the questions brought up in anime" and since GitS is a really good anime that brings up really good questions, I figured I'd ask you some of the questions brought up.
Think of yourselves as pseudo-students in my pseudo class of awesomeness:
*A cyborg and a man are arguing. The cyborg argues that it is a life form because it has all of the technical qualities that a human possesses, and a human classifies itself as a life form (everything in this description is not arguable, it is fact)*
Ridiculous! You're merely a self-preserving program!
By that argument, I submit the DNA you carry is nothing more than a self-preserving program itself. Life is like a node which is born within the flow of information. As a species of life that carries DNA as its memory system, man gains his individuality from the memories he carries. While memories may as well be the same as fantasy, it is by these memories that mankind exists.
*The human wants to distinguish itself from the cyborg and gives evidence to support his claim, but that evidence also supports the claim that the cyborg has equivalent life-status as a human*
Nonsense! No matter what you say, you've no proof that you're a life-form!
It is impossible to prove such a thing. Especially since modern science cannot define what life is.
Both of these are from the Ghost in the Shell movie, the original movie.
So please pick one and argue the position of either human or non-human. You can argue both positions or neither if you want, but I think that would be very difficult. You also might want to acquaint yourself with the arguments apparent in my examples. Unfortunately, I don't have the patience to give you links to the relevant video samples, so you should just watch Ghost in the Shell yourself (or at least the last bit, lol)
I apologize if I am unresponsive to this thread since I will be internetless for the next week since I have work to be done ;-;
Anyways, during my time at home where I have the internet and such to soak myself in, I decided to watch Ghost in the Shell (an anime that I physically own). I decided to watch GitS because I watched Tekkonkinkreet and Tekkonkinkreet influenced me in a way that only Ghost in the Shell ever has. Anyways, I was thinking (a thing that you should be doing while watching GitS) as I was watching GitS "hey, it would be cool if I had a philosophy class that was about anime or the questions brought up in anime" and since GitS is a really good anime that brings up really good questions, I figured I'd ask you some of the questions brought up.
Think of yourselves as pseudo-students in my pseudo class of awesomeness:
*A cyborg and a man are arguing. The cyborg argues that it is a life form because it has all of the technical qualities that a human possesses, and a human classifies itself as a life form (everything in this description is not arguable, it is fact)*
Ridiculous! You're merely a self-preserving program!
By that argument, I submit the DNA you carry is nothing more than a self-preserving program itself. Life is like a node which is born within the flow of information. As a species of life that carries DNA as its memory system, man gains his individuality from the memories he carries. While memories may as well be the same as fantasy, it is by these memories that mankind exists.
*The human wants to distinguish itself from the cyborg and gives evidence to support his claim, but that evidence also supports the claim that the cyborg has equivalent life-status as a human*
Nonsense! No matter what you say, you've no proof that you're a life-form!
It is impossible to prove such a thing. Especially since modern science cannot define what life is.
Both of these are from the Ghost in the Shell movie, the original movie.
So please pick one and argue the position of either human or non-human. You can argue both positions or neither if you want, but I think that would be very difficult. You also might want to acquaint yourself with the arguments apparent in my examples. Unfortunately, I don't have the patience to give you links to the relevant video samples, so you should just watch Ghost in the Shell yourself (or at least the last bit, lol)
I apologize if I am unresponsive to this thread since I will be internetless for the next week since I have work to be done ;-;