all of a sudden you lose one arm, and then it is replaced by a cyborg one?. Then for some messed up reason, it happens to the other arm, now a leg, the other... Lungs, heart... a so on and so fort, little by little, your organs are replaced by cyborg parts. With each replacement are you becoming less of a human?, and if so... People that have one missing limb are less humans?. Does your humanity remain intact even though all your physical parts are being replaced?, if it comes to a point in which all of you is nothing but a cyborg... Yet you feel as you have always felt... Are you still human then?. What is humanity then?, what is to have a soul?... Is it self awareness?, a sense of preservation?...
Hmmm... Can you tell I just finished watching the whole Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex TV series?. That is one of the things I really enjoy about Anime, those guys care about deep stuff, although after a while you do realize that they all play with the sense of self and I, etc, those are deep issues that philosophers have played with for thousands of years now... So I don't see the harm on it being a recurrent topic on Anime.
And indeed... What makes me be my self and different from others?. What does assures me that my self is something higher than the Hector that I am at the moment?, what if at the moment of dead I just shut off... Period. What if not... What then?.
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