{"id":4368,"date":"2007-07-11T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/07\/androids-and-gynoids-and-ghosts-oh-my\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T13:34:00","slug":"androids-and-gynoids-and-ghosts-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/07\/androids-and-gynoids-and-ghosts-oh-my.html","title":{"rendered":"Androids and Gynoids and Ghosts, oh my!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Last night I finally watched Ghost in the Shell 2 \u2013 Innocence<\/a>\"\". As also with the first Ghost in the Shell<\/a>\"\" movie, this one was packed with action, amazing animation, philosophical questions and quotations from the Bible. It is great to be able to watch such things and know I am doing research! The theme of the movie obviously ties in with my current work on artificial intelligence and religion. I\u2019ve also read some of Philip K. Dick\u2019s philosophical writings included in the volume The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick<\/a>\"\". At first I was somewhat disappointed with Dick\u2019s affirmations about androids as by definition predictable \u2013 until I realized that, in Dick\u2019s terminology, if an \u201candroid\u201d is not merely a simulation of the human without the inner reality, then it is, in his view, actually human<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Here are a few of the many thought-provoking ideas and statements from Ghost in the Shell 2:<\/p>\n