I'm marathoning Ghost in a Shell: Stand Alone Complex today for use in an upcoming paper, and a couple of ideas have popped up in the idea of personhood.
The first is how much language in integral to our understanding of reality. All of human ideas, culture and technology are conveyed to one another through this medium, but how does this communication protocol influence the ideas themselves.
Secondly, from the things the Tachikoma have said, the confines of living in our singular bodies makes our experience completely different from the Tachikoma's experience. They share a collective memory pool, while we have solitary pools. The way they think and understand the world ought to be quite alien from our interpretation of it.
These ideas must be explored.
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I'm interested in how language/translation technology plays a part in the "solitary pool" versus "collective pool" versus "communication channels" in SAC. Dismantling real-time language barriers is a scenario we're approaching in reality and it'll be interesting how we apply current technology to do so.
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