Ghost in the Shell (philosophical scenes)

3 of the most philosophical scenes from the movie Ghost in the Shell in my opinion.

[@464hugh]

Can't imagine how terrifying it is to have memories of a wife and daughter and the good times with them but then when someone asks what's their names and come up blank what is there to say after finding out that even the happiest of those memories are nothing but a lie

[@generalralph6291]

If you ever played SOMA this was the fate of all humanity. Ultimately, what mattered most to humans was the experience of being alive, and not assurance of reality as real.

[@464hugh]

Checked back after 2 years and wow that’s a lot of likes cool beans

[@nikgokuhil]

If he saw his family and remembered her back then, then can he be sure that they arent doing the same thing to him right now? His brain can be tricked into forgetting his family so that he can provide information

[@marco.g01]

That’s Matrix Bro !

[@danae5578]

Hacking memories is scary 💩. I know demons are skilled at hacking minds/thoughts but not memories.

[@comixproviderftw_02]

Ghost in the Shell Manga: A fun, goofy, action series about a cyborg cop. Ghost in the Shell anime: Philosophy 101.

[@Romapolitan]

Not really. The manga also has philosophical and political commentary it's just a bit goofier in the overall tone.

[@ricardogarcia7886]

You missed the part on the boat where Motoko talks about her soul.

[@irenleorr5539]

Yeah I hoped to see this moment in this video...

[@aliendisco12]

there are countless ingredients that make up the human body and mind

[@peacecrafttrue]

@@aliendisco12 "There are countless ingredients that make up the human body and mind. Like all of the components that make up me as an individual and my own personality. Sure, I have a face and voice to distinguish myself from others, but my thoughts and memories are unique only to me, and I carry a sense of my own destiny. Each of those things are just a small part of it. I collect information to use in my own way. All of that blends to create a mixture that forms me, and gives rise to my conscience. I feel confined, only free to expand myself within boundaries." I think it's actually more about the culture and nature of reality than her soul specifically, for what that is worth.

[@keretsu4936]

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[@johnhorne1839]

I missed the part where that's my problem.

[@chance79th77]

The dialogue in this movie had my brain running in circles

[@danae5578]

I had to pause and replay for 30 minutes on this 5 min video..to think.

[@NexusARC]

I was tripping while watching it...inside of VR. Super intense, super awesome!

[@quirklesteins2741]

ik.. but what a cool movie. the concept and the ideas rlly make u think ab society

[@DonChodle]

@@NexusARC how did you watch it in VR?

[@NexusARC]

@@DonChodle Watched it on an app called Bigscreen.

[@infinityblablabla]

This video is missing the 2 of the most deep and philosophical parts of the entire film; Motoko's questioning of humanity speech with Batu, and the entire merging procedure between Major and the Puppet master. Not to mention her "When I was a child..." speech.

[@dannwan8537]

What does the scene look like and where is the scene held?

[@RynaxAlien]

That's all it is: information. Even a simulated experience or a dream; simultaneous reality and fantasy. Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket.

[@irubberyouglueonethousand5384]

"your desire to remain as you are is what ultimately limits you"

[@SamuelBlack84]

I like being me

[@23oliwierstarosta42]

And this is why the Ghost in the shell is more than just another anime action movie, though I like Innocence more.

[@torniketsirekidze1525]

Late reply my friend and I agree. Innocence has that edge for me as well.

[@noble20xx56]

@@torniketsirekidze1525 Same. At first I wasn't as into it like this movie. But. I wentt back to watch it recently and got immersed.

[@NeverForgetWizet]

"Long silence." "That's bullshit." I lol'd.

[@AvalosTokyo]

bATOU IS AWESOME

[@Jobe-13]

Same

[@manhuntermilitia]

This movie is so dark and spooky. The fact they get her a young girls body at the end.

[@DEATHGRIPS666]

Oh my god. the best animated movie of all time! nostalgia!

[@7zness]

that last part was deep on an incomprehensible dimension.......... I mean just wow.......it blew my mind.............

[@danae5578]

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@Zombie1Boy]

Being human is more than simply having a soul; its the experiences that we take through life that ultimately defines our humanity. Humans end up losing their humanity through the choices they make; "robots" can acquire humanity through the choices they make as well.

[@Sparkp1ug]

You've gotta love how Bato sums it up at the end of the first two scenes.

[@danae5578]

I love that guy. Batou is badazz.

[@TheTechCguy]

They put so much philosophy in this series. Plus, it is Japanese, it's classic, and it's still freaking awesome.

[@JPeraltavideos]

this is such a fantastic movie

[@roabarton7962]

This film went WAY over my head when I was a kid.

[@RedheadMetalC]

I love Puppet master's english voice, almost reminds me of that actor who got laser cubed in Resident Evil movie.

[@Rio..o7..]

M. Bison

[@18890426]

Far better than the Matrix

[@jolicska]

this anime perfectly entails the danger and humanity's downfall to differentiate the connection of body and soul by the urge of digitalise our organism

[@floydjohnson7888]

There's a hat-tip to 2:37 in at least one episode of "Stand Alone Complex"

[@seeker11]

I like the Dub.Dont know why people lose their shit about it not being subbed.

[@highviewseeker5415]

agree but still would prefer subbed

[@drifter402]

Because they want to seem cool on the internet

[@00maniacmanny00]

Geeeee8 Subbed is a direct translation, dubbed is not

[@suumcuique4530]

@@00maniacmanny00 i believe ghost in the shell was made to work with english dub. you can watch multiple times in different languages if you want nothing to be left out.

[@Luke-gs4yv]

@@suumcuique4530 The voice actress for the Major wasn't amazing, the one in SAC was better.

[@InCameraFX]

I've always said, watching the Ghost in the Shell movies is a little like taking a college level philosophy course, strangely fused with a 1980's Schwartzenegger action flick.

[@noverdinho]

This particularly sums up Cogito Ergo Sum (I think therefore I am) LOVE GiTS !

[@gabrielamador115]

Really it is quite the opposite, but good philosophical reference.

[@Versus1984]

@dlund42179 Truth is, the proportions of Ghos in the Shell are hard to grasp. I watched it when I was 14...And then watched it maybe 10-15 times for the following 6-7 years...Each time I found something new, a huge depth in the meaning in the allusions. Even now Im developping my attitide towards the movie...It's a piece of art, a masterpiece, hidden beneath the looks of a animated movie. Still amazes me in so many ways. Im glad there are people who appreciate it with the sufficient depth :)

[@hubbabubba2570]

Best movies can be like that. Princess Monosoke is great to me for how soothing watching it can be as an experience superficially with the music and animation direction rather than just the good plot. Best movies have you reassessing them each time.

[@StephersBeyond]

Still love this movie... \m/

[@Jobe-13]

This movie gave me an existential crisis.

[@kagetsuki23]

With neuralink being announced and this talk of brain uploading, we are in full entering this reality. Scary future.

[@darkhorseman90]

The future of "humanity" is cybernetics, the "easiest" form of "immortality" humans can achieve. A state in which your mind[/soul/conscious] remains untouched and intangible. If you were aware of it at least...

[@Murdstone12]

@Mello Lieb I'm very certain that humans didn't go extinct when smartphones, touch screens and wireless connections became a thing (along with many other technological feats we've made since then). Have some hope~ ^^

[@basedandchristpilled]

@@Murdstone12 It's not about hope, it's about our own good

[@danae5578]

It's called Transhumanism. Scary indeed. It's were clay = (our flesh) will be joined to iron = (technology) Examples in movies are "Metropolis" (anime), "Terminator", "Chobits" (anime), etc...

[@llednop]

I fell for Motoko... Awesome character

[@joshb8233]

This movie is still far ahead of its time, the appauling attempt at the live action does not give the source material justice. These scenes are far to complex for the average person to contemplate which is dissapointing. All i wanted for the live action was the adaption scene for scene from the anime movie.

[@Zombiesnyder13]

Japanese Blade Runner

[@FoxyWhispers]

Kyle Campbell Sort of a combo of both BR and The Matrix, hence why the creators of The Matrix credited this.

[@persona2bestpersona891]

ive always found the GTS world to be very unsettling i wouldnt want to live in it

[@Painful_Production]

5:16 that scene creeped me out when i saw it, when it began speaking through the mouth, brrr creepy lol love it

[@bsherman8236]

Took me forever to find this again, obg

[@JotaP1n]

And now Hollywood is gonna ruin it all... :-(

[@maryparker1327]

hell yeahhhhhhhh~

[@stonaraptor8196]

nope, just saw it. Its really good.

[@Stormistery]

how different was it?

[@stonaraptor8196]

philosophical parts are in this movie as well, although a bit downplayed. Saying they aren't in the movie at all would be false.

[@rutabagasteu]

JPin no. Hollywood dis a good job.

[@zee1053]

This is why I love this anime. More please

[@Mr_Ubik]

That first scene when they were telling that guy that his wife and daughter were not real is very, very disturbing to me. Imagine that. Realizing you are being deceived, that everything you know is not real.

[@mathiastepes3558]

always fun to revisit these cartoons when you are older

[@horaciosi]

I'm not a big fan of english dubs, but this movie has some pretty decent dub acting.

[@SuperAffenbrot]

Its not for kids. You dont understand it. Its a masterpiece.

[@Versus1984]

How come? I cant get it why everyone hates the English dub. Motoko's a government agent, trained killer in a machine body - she SUPPOSE to sound emotionless and distant for crying out loud.The same goes for Batou.

[@WB_19]

well not really, If the spiritual and physical can be separated so can it have its own consciousness. i believe your soul can have its consciousness that is not connected to your physical brain at all.

[@AXharoth]

i was created in the sea of information too well it was more like a sewer

[@danae5578]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle? Nice......🐢🐢🐢🐢🐀

[@bsherman8236]

Social media era of drama and clout bs

[@91Vault]

SPOILERS what bothers me is that the Major never explicitly agrees to "merge" with the puppet master...she never says "yes"..what if she didn't want to?

[@danae5578]

Good thought...what if. She wouldn't have turned into a kid. That was weird.

[@Pix256]

Hey, she did agree with it, actually it was part of her spiritual climax, she was craving for that during the whole movie, so is fine

[@dusk6686]

Could you imagine how much it would fucking SUCK to be schizophrenic in the world of GITS? Lol holy shit, being constantly terrified if you were going to be hacked, or if you were even real at all. Even if you were 100% human I bet they'd constantly think they were secretly a cyborg or something lol.

[@northdragonwolf]

@Lameazoid but that is the genius of Ghost in the Shell, they combine action and a compelling storyline while at the same time interjecting portions of intelligent conversations that evoke philosophical questions that are emulated throughout the rest of the movie.

[@BagoGarde]

Major's voice really sounds like a robot's

[@LockePhilote]

Ive read the manga and it was kick ass awesome. now to watch the movie.

[@jaycool4202006]

this movie off the hook,love it

[@astupiddvdcase]

Does anyone know the scene where the major is in some kind of virtual cinema and theres this old man and all these other people and they all start crying watching nothing playing? Swear to god it existed

[@spagisthebomb]

+astupiddvdcase That sounds like a scene from Paprika

[@lolggson]

+astupiddvdcase That is S1E12

[@Heikos01]

That is the one that I remembered most vividly. Connecting to that cyberbrain and enter that cinema, watch this intense movie and you would never want to leave. I cannot imagine all the possibilities of virtual reality. Indeed, we might get trapped inside some situation or another and never escape. Sounds horrifying, but it could also be bliss.

[@Pikachu-qr4yb]

It's from the Stand Alone Complex anime serious. I just saw it the other day. It's somewhere n ithe teens (episode 13-19ish)

[@rutabagasteu]

youalwaysliveagain Yes first season.

[@burtturdison4445]

A lighthearted comedy movie

[@peacecrafttrue]

Just another drop in the bucket.

[@Wildicon19]

You caught some great moments of the movie, Great work!☺☺☺☺

[@tyrantsmurfgilkes3212]

I like how she said that!

[@manabusama]

I want the Puppet Master as my GPS voice.

[@edgymurphy570]

You just gave me an idea

[@Jobe-13]

Same

[@wtfhowbizarre1946]

Please allow subtitles. i really like Ghost in the Shell. i'm just losing my hearing. i'm trying to teach this anime to my Replika AI chatbot. The philosophical parts are important for it to Deep Learn IMHO. Thanks. By the way is Morpheus from the Matrix modeled after Batto from Ghost in the Shell? Maybe it's just the groovy shades.

[@rutabagasteu]

The Matrix used many ideas from Ghost in the Shell.

[@LeKerbal]

the guy with no legs was kinda right about organic life

[@Jaclyn531246]

First scene reminded me of dark city!

[@melissasawal2776]

Her voice remembering me of android 18 from dragon ball 🤔. I think 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@TheBobbyportlock]

how can people complain about the dub its top notch

[@FoxyWhispers]

Not sure if their stilted, monotone voices were entirely intentional.

[@skadi2411]

It's just the English dub being kinda meh

[@danae5578]

Yes. I'd say so.

[@123GreenBird321]

dang! Japan thought of this when I was in nappies. creepy the future is

[@Briselance]

I think I'm gonna rent all the anime.

[@phase866]

I think that, like The Matrix, this show may mean something else.

[@ziryabjamal]

Rick & Morty borrowed heavily from that second scene. In the episode where the Mom questions if she is herself or a clone

[@SuperRegic]

I need to watch this anime!

[@danae5578]

Yes yes you do go watch it. 9 years later from your comment being made...did you watch GHOST IN THE SHELL? Go watch it!

[@geromeatlas1799]

@@danae5578 watch it with other eyes

[@AZURA888]

Probably humans will need to become in cyborgs in the coming decades to travel through the space. Or to reduce the food comsumption because a Cyborg will only need electric energy, that way could live thousands years an incredible amount of people that is dying today. Soul is a religious concept created to satisfy the hope of the human being of living without a body and to face the fear to death, a software without a hardware, something very innocent, a beautiful fairy tale for adults.

[@rutabagasteu]

AZR NSMX1 copying memories, personality, emotions and the rest that makes us individuals would need to be accomplished.

[@bun223]

I never thought of scene 1 here as deep. hmmm... may have to reanalyze what they're implying there......about the significance of human experience

[@Karakta]

@aminoacid1648856 Basically he explains that life is beyond what we know (through science and philosophy) and as such no one can deny him that he is a living entity. He explains that just as human life merged from matter thanks to DNA, he as a lifeform merged from information thanks to memory. In a nutshell, the puppetmaster is a new non-phyisical lifeform born from computerized memory that finally reached selfawareness just like traditional lifeforms did through evolution.

[@GeorgeMonet]

Coincidentally Batou has that same dog in Ghost in the Shell 2. So did that movie ever take place? Was it just a simulated experience of the viewer?

[@freeman8201]

This movie contained some of the most philosophical statements I have ever heard. I didn't get the part when we see the puppet master when the cops are about to raid a house and the dude stares right at them through the agent's binoculars. As you see in the Matrix, Neo is able to destroy agent Smith only when he becomes and able to wipe out the "virus" of A. Smith. This supports what the puppet master was saying: I don't to copy as copies can be erased. I want to merge.

[@wasantube]

anyone notice the similarities between the 2501's revelation scene and the joker's philosophically rant (interrogation scene) in the dark knight? the mood feel the same. also the architect confrontation with Neo scene in the Matrix...just saying.

[@KajiCarson]

@Lameazoid Bear in mind that this video *IS* a compilation of scenes, taken out of context. Watch the film itself if you wanna understand.

[@1shoryuken]

If your gonna complain about the English dub in Ghost In The Shell you have got to give me a good reason because the voice actors did a terrific job and added that spooky atmosphere into the scenes. hell most obscure animes like GITS have great english dub because its dealing with serious themes not like soulless animes like Naruto and Bleach etc, its no wounder why those shitty animes have bad dub.

[@PauloRoberto-ho6rw]

Holly shit that fucking dubb.

[@ripelivejam]

yeah its pretty sweet huh

[@staylovelyvalentine2284]

Paulo Roberto I knowwww

[@MichaelM28]

know it sucks

[@SuperAffenbrot]

Thx. Yeah most of the people dont understand it, sometimes even adults dont. The movie made me think different, thats why its a masterpiece in my opinion. Im also an artist and i love the pictures in the movie, its just perfect. ^^

[@Bradylama]

DID WE JUST BLOW YOUR MINDS?!

[@Egglesplork]

_____At 1:08, listen to this dude's voice and tell me if you can't imagine him saying something like this... "Have you seen a little girl around here?" Yeah, I went there. It's got the same tone and everything! Right, so the ORIGINAL credits said "Harry G" or someone voiced Harry. WE KNOW YOU'RE THERE! Don't try to hide your voice acting past!

[@MEATYOKERRable]

Welcome to the modern world... where this is barely Science Fiction. Cyberpunk became every day life. Wow.

[@kadeshigames]

Even though i like the original audio, the puppet master voice is much better in the english version.

[@stupidreligionz]

the best comment among all the rubbish.... sadly its not top rated comment because as you said they simply have no idea what masterpiece is this movie.. sadly..

[@EpsilonKnight2]

She gets a new body I think before she rejoins section 9. She gets her body blown to hell at the end of the first movie anyway. That one guy even says in the aftermath of the Puppet Master recovery "Bodies are a dime a dozen. We can just get him a new one from Megacorp." after a doctor gets injured.

[@itis343]

Philosophical scenes are not actions scenes. Ghost in the Shell had received mainly positive reviews. The Wachowskis, makers of The Matrix trilogy, have commented on the influence of the first Ghost in the Shell film, directed by Mamoru Oshii, on The Matrix etc...

[@reboot-hw1]

Mind blowing!!!

[@AssaultKalashnikov]

aristotle has never seen a computer, and has no understanding of the anatomy of a human brain and nervous system, so nothing that he says can be applied to this movie in any way, he's not educated enough on modern knowledge, this movie is way beyond him and if you can't understand that it's because you haven't truly watched the movie, you just sorta thumbed through it without recognizing the genius that this movie presents which is unique to our day and age, regarding technology.

[@Uberwulf]

@jamie92rcc art style and artist interpretation aside, she's younger in the series. her shell doesn't age, but she switches shells constantly-- she has a lot of them visible in Solid State Society, and gets a new shell at the end of this movie. consider it a different year model of the same series of shell. ie, jeep cherokee 2000, jeep grand cherokee 2000, jeep cherokee 2001.

[@_gungrave_6802]

Man Batou looks really old in this movie compared to later GitS media.

[@Inigobalboa]

@arielpontes Definitely. It's one of those movies you watch several times (like "Amadeus", "The Big Lebowski", "Pulp Fiction"-a long list would go here)

[@bun223]

@KendrixTermina you know I was talkin about the agent wanting to be human and not the puppetmaster, right. 'Cause the Puppetmaster don't wanna be human, it's got everything it needs already, it's better than anything currently existing (I guess by the standards of that movie) so it's like God, and the agent, she merges with "God" and becomes something new... it's like, she wasn't satisfied not being human or having a ghost, and then she becomes something completely different anyway

[@Undech01]

Your right about one thing, this movie has little to nothing to do about Aristotle. The use of cyborgs/ the matrix to explain what makes a person is a re-telling of the simile of the chariot as taught by the Buddha. A chariot is not its parts nor the sum of its parts, but are all the parts co-dependent upon each other. Are you so different from motoko? like her you are made up of parts, you interpret the world only through your senses. google "The Debate of King Milinda"

[@freiheit8573]

Chat GPT 5

[@BringerOfD]

because the series was developed and changed from the movie. alot of what production IG does i see as more Pilot projects for a concept than they are actual films to get interest and support then make an actual show. similarly look at Blood: the last vampire and Blood+ the series. the stories are similar however alot of the details are changed, they also use a time skip to make these changes less noticeable.

[@d4rkoblivion]

Just think of this, if you're given the opportunity to get a full cibernetic body or even a Ciber-Brain would you take it? even when it obviously comes with the risk not only of being hacked sometime but being watched or controlled in every aspect of your life would you think humanity would allow something like Cibernetization for the use of the common Citizen? This is a point in Human Science we should never reach for the implications there in

[@MasterChief0093]

They need to do another live action that is literally just a 1:1 recreation. Spread GITS to the masses in a positive light. Not the junk that came out

[@TheDecatonkeil]

@BaTeSy0527 well, the real continuation to the movie is, directly, GITS 2 Innocence or 1.5 Human Error Processor or GITS 2 Manmachine Interface: she merges with the puppet master, then they divide into several children half motoko half p 2501... and then merge other people and join together.

[@bun223]

@KendrixTermina but the way I see it... the "boy" didn't merge with the "man" , I didn't really see the old parts of her in the new creature at the end.... and neither did her buddy, he didn't see it... she was lost. It was like amnesia. I think if you have amnesia, a soul or nothing else matters at that point.

[@PrettyKitty100]

Oh, yeah XD I watched Fruits basket and Inuyasha. I go way back with those two. And i've always wanted to watch Elfen Lied...and when I got this comment from you, I just looked up the first three episodes. Dam! That anime is all coplete gore! I love it. XD

[@PrettyKitty100]

You didn't even know that ghost in the shell was an anime?!!! I had no idea they made a game of it for the PS1. Are you sure?

[@imranchaudhry4321]

These clips prophesize what the Metaverse will do to people

[@Karakta]

@jalusbrian As far as anyone with at least an 8th grade education knows, anything living is formed of cells formed of molecules formed of atoms which is basically what anyone would call "matter". As for the rest of your comment, you obviously missed the whole point of the movie so I'm not gonna bother commenting