Exploring Identity and Evolution in Technology
Kuze:
I became fascinated with you, reading your code while you were inside that Geisha. Like nothing I had felt before, and yet so familiar. We are the same.
Major:
We’re not the same. You kill innocent people.
Kuze: [...]
Innocent, is that what you call them? I am as they made me.
Kuze: [Removing a piece of Major's face and examining it]
What a beauty you are. They have improved us so much, since they made me. They thought that we would be a part of their evolution, but they have created us to evolve alone. Beyond them.
Major:
Evolution, that’s what you call—killing everyone who made you.
Kuze:
You’re not listening to me.
Major:
You’re a murderer.
Kuze:
They tried to kill me first! It is self-defense. Defense of self!
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The Burden of Unique Existence
Dr. Ouelet:
You're not invulnerable. I can repair your body, but I can't protect your mind.
Major:
Why not? You can see all my thoughts, so you should be able to secure them.
Dr. Ouelet:
Try and understand your importance, Mira. You're what everyone will become one day
Major:
You don't know how alone that makes me feel.
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Exploring Identity and Humanity in Dialogue
Major: [To a sex worker]
You human?
Woman: [They go upstairs]
Yeah.
Major: [Woman removes stickers on her face, and Major touches the woman's facial features]
Can you take that off, so I can see your face?
Major:
What does that feel like?
Woman:
It feels… different. What are you?
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The Flaws of Human Emotion
Cutter: [shooting Dr. Ouelet after she helped Major escape]
Cutter: That's the problem with the human heart.
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Strategic Choices in Conflict Scenarios
Aramaki: [In Japanese, after defeating assassins]
Don't send a rabbit to kill a fox.
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Blurring Lines Between Fantasy and Reality
Batou:
At least he got to believe he had a kid. What's the difference, huh? Fantasy, reality. Dreams, memories. It's all the same. Just noise.
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Identity and Humanity in a Synthetic World
Major:
My mind is human. My body is manufactured. I am the first of my kind, but I won’t be the last. We cling to memories as if they define us, but what we do defines us. My ghost survived to remind the next of us that humanity is our virtue. I know who I am, and what I’m here to do.
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