Information and Access to that information has always been very important and vital for us all. Within the first film of the Ghost in the Shell series, The Ghost in the Shell (film), this is even more so. Section 9 depends on the information and in its accuracy. The problem arises when other factions like Section 6 and the “Muppet Master” use, cloud, and manipulate the information like in the film for their own deceptive means. Section 6 deceiving Section 9 and breaking into their complex is a good example.
I think that one’s “Ghost” in the Ghost in the Shell means two things. Either it may mean that it’s a beings soul or one’s mind. Either way it is believed within the film that one’s Ghost resides within one’s brain or that the mind is the soul.
I see things a bit differently… I see our Ghost as our Soul, which connects to our heart; that our Mind, which connects to our brain, is our “human” part; and that our Body connects to our body or neural system.
Our Ghost/soul within the film fits as a way to guide the minds & body of the characters. When Motoko Kusanagi, “the Major", dives deep in the ocean and leaves herself in a state of solitude she demonstrates, for those who are able to see, a method in which Motokos’ soul lets her know of her essences/inner self. She connected with her Ghost, her mind, and body. Each and every time that she dived into her state of solitude she grew closer to herself and understood herself in depth and together.
The characters that had their “Ghost” hacked, or their cybernetic brains, had memories implanted and as we saw thought they knew what they “knew”.
It is not Motokos’ physical senses nor her memories that truly allow her to be sure of what she knows but her Ghost that really defines it and that shows her who she really is, that her memories are real and her own, and that her senses are indeed accurate.
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