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SEPTEMBER 18, 2030
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I hope for your sake
that you haven't lost her.
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Public Security is surrounding her
as we speak.
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If she goes to ground,
the situation will become unmanageable.
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Take her out while we still can!
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That would mean taking
somewhat extreme measures.
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Just do it!
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The Ghorantl delegation
and the Foreign Minister's liaison?
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But from a safety
and certainty standpoint, that...
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When did the Intelligence Department
lose its stomach?
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Just record it for now.
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I'll proceed with Plan C, then.
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It'll be good to have
Section 9 owe us one.
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Chief.
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It's me.
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The target got spooked and
contacted Ghorantl intelligence service.
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Shall we pick him up?
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Leave him be.
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Once you gather sufficient evidence,
pull out without leaving any tracks.
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But their plan is to have someone
from the sniping team take out the Major!
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Don't let anyone spot you.
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And give the target's name to Sabiro.
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It was his tip-off
that set all this in motion, so...
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Public Security was dragging its feet.
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That was the sound of Kusanagi
shooting the hostage in the leg.
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It'll be a good life lesson
for a back-alley doctor.
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I've just made a deal!
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Channel 33 is synching up with us!
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I'm about to start a live feed!
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Damn it.
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Give her the connector unit!
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You have good news, I hope?
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Yes, Mr. Prime Minister.
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We've uncovered a Ghorantl agent who
had penetrated close to your inner circle.
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The Middle East Bureau
was able to get concessions
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in the trade talks with Ghorantl,
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so I'd say the operation
has been successful.
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Our deal with Ghorantl is that we just
have to make our usual "best efforts."
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It will cost us nothing. Well done.
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There is one last mess to clean up.
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Sniper unit 02, now in position.
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Hey.
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2030
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Over here!
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- Who fired?! Bomb squad!
- Director! Get down!
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Check her bags!
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A young cop is roughing you up.
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You're full of it.
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Care to borrow my eyes?
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They would be leering, so no thanks.
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Start driving.
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Yes, yes.
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You're sure we're not being tailed?
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Sheesh, enough with the backseat driving.
No, we're not being tailed!
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Change cars one more time
before going to your secret Bed.
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Gabriella! Your master has returned!
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Gabriella?
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Looks like I have visitors.
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The fact that
they haven't opened fire already
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means they're waiting for you
to go inside.
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There being no reaction
even though I have a weapon out
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said to me that we aren't being watched.
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I'll never get this stench
out of the place!
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It's the corpses of three burglars.
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The intercept system
must have gotten them.
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It might be a trap. Proceed with caution.
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I'm being cautious, all right,
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but who would set up
such a pointless trap?
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Oh!
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The big door is just the lock.
This hatch is the real door.
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Which one was it?
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Number 227!
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Isn't this the exact moment
that you think it might be a trap,
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regardless of the situation?
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I never would have survived this long
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unless I was
the twitchy and cautious type.
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Okay, that got it.
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There it is!
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Huh? What the...
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Mold's growing on the aluminum alloy?
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Everything's rotted!
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I should've known they would
skimp on the bacterial resistance testing
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in a body I got on the black market.
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On the other hand, Section 9 was great.
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We always had genuine, top-tier parts.
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I'm gonna listen to my Ghost
and perform a strategic withdrawal.
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It's a low probability,
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but it might be
totally random people showing up.
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Besides, if these are people
who were waiting for the door to open,
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the first ones to come charging in
might have nice prosthetic bodies.
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Do the words "human rights"
ring any bells, lady?
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This is all so exciting!
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What did I tell ya? The door's open!
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Which means it was worth waiting!
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Grab anything
that looks like it might be usable!
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Aw, man.
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Look at 'em, running around
and waving their guns everywhere.
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No trigger discipline at all.
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Looks like some
possibly-dangerous scrappers.
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There's about 18 in all.
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There's three heavyweight cyborgs.
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Good news for you.
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Ugh, it reeks of death in here!
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It reminds me of the smell
when my pet crawdad died!
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There's no footprints past the door!
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Even though everything's covered in dust!
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The odds of it happening
might just be a few percent,
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but I'll leave you sitting out so they'll
find you in the event I don't come back.
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It'll be bad news for you if your
life support batteries run out, yeah?
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It won't bother me.
I'll be too busy being dead.
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Right you are.
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Well, I'll be right back with the best
prosthetic body in the bunch for you,
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so think up some words of gratitude.
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I'm gonna be committing
murder for you, after all.
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I'll go into lockdown mode
to conserve power.
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Wake me up using code 11.
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Ah, good.
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I finally managed to channel into you.
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Who are you, and how were you
able to interrupt my lockdown mode?
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I invested a great deal of time to do so.
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This faint, yet ultra-vast net depth...
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The Puppet Master, I presume.
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I was under the impression that
the Puppet Master had ceased to exist.
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Or is that a jumbled memory on my part?
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It would be inappropriate
to direct such a question to me.
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Those of you in the material universe
are no more than sediment-like material.
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If that were not the case,
then things such as meaning and
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unrecorded information would not exist.
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So what does
the great Puppet Master want with me?
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Did you decide to come back to haunt me?
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I have come to make a request of you
once I have explained certain matters.
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This request will be of benefit
to both you and me.
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What would you do
to prevent a catastrophic failure
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and maintain a state of equilibrium
within a network?
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There are two ways.
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The first is to make two copies.
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Even if one dies due to some cause,
the other continues to exist.
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The other way is to divide and subdivide
its inner workings
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to become multifunctional, allowing it
to cope with failures of many types.
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In the same way that life progressed
from single-function,
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unicellular organisms to multi-function,
multicellular organisms.
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Just so.
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From the first viewpoint,
the result is a parallel multiverse model.
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Copies create further copies,
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and the more their number increases,
the risk of failure decreases.
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From the second viewpoint,
the result is complexity.
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Out of the Super Grand Unified Theory
emerge bosons and fermions,
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further splitting into gravity
and the strong interactions and so on.
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These building blocks formed protons,
and nuclei formed atoms.
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It is possible to view this as
the universe itself multifunctionalizing.
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Cells and tissue
within individual organisms,
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and the many species within an ecosystem,
can be considered similar processes.
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The universe that we know is but one
of two to the n'th power universes
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that continually branches
as it interacts combinatorially,
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and is composed of combinations
of elements
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that have differentiated
up to the m'th generation.
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Although the values of n and m
appear to continue towards infinity,
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this is unknown.
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It does seem to be related to the cyclic
explosive births of universes,
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but let us limit our discussion to this
single universe that we are a part of.
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This is a pyramidal structure
with you as its center.
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Among those close to you,
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such as friends and fellow members
of Section 9 and your superiors,
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your information will remain,
albeit in a highly fragmented form.
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Your genes and memes will continue
to grow even after you are gone.
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In a toroidal fashion.
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The further up one goes,
the levels become macroscopic
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and behave deterministically.
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Conversely, as the lower levels
approach microstructure in scale,
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the more they become nondeterministic.
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At the level of the individual,
the system is still nondeterministic.
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Put another way,
fluctuations in the lower strata
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prevent a hardening of the arteries
in the upper strata.
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System ossification.
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Heat death might seem close to the concept
of stability at first glance,
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but in a rigid system
that lacks variability,
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the likelihood of failure is amplified,
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so it could be described
as actually being unstable.
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The network is cosmic in scale
and infinite in depth,
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almost like a growing tree.
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So you could almost say that life is like
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fruit blossoming
on the branches of that tree.
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I suppose one could.
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Life is the fruit.
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The esoteric Kabbalah.
Nordic myths. Chinese myths.
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Eden's Tree of Knowledge.
The Tree of Life. The World Tree.
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In this case,
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Shinto's Ame-no-Mihashira, the Heavenly
Pillar, is the most appropriate.
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Transcending time or culture or race,
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it is the cosmic system
that countless channelers have accessed
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and handed down to following generations.
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Although the tree
should no longer have a top,
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the closer one gets to the ends
of the branches, the more growth there is.
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They touch, they separate,
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they intertwine, and they bear fruit.
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The universe rotates,
and it advances in accordance with "time,"
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which corresponds
to the moment of that rotation.
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To exist more fully,
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to try to achieve greater stability,
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it becomes more complex and diversified,
yet it sometimes abandons that attempt.
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Even as the brain's network grows
more complex, it is able to forget.
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The way that all cells besides brain cells
are broken down every day,
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then are replenished, only to age and die.
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The way that massive amounts
of experiential information is lost
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at the time of death,
leaving only genes and memes behind.
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Even the cyclical decline
and fall of civilizations.
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These are all a defense mechanism
against system ossification and collapse.
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That way of thinking puts a positive spin
on human folly and mistakes.
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To be lectured on right and wrong by you,
of all people...
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Such details are not relevant
to the subject at hand,
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but put in religious terms,
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it is the reason why God
does not simply eliminate the Devil.
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Humans who operate in a religious mode
use terms like "trial" or "ordeal"
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to put a positive spin on suffering.
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What if cells
were to multiply indefinitely?
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What if humans went on accumulating
knowledge and experience, never dying?
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In either case, it would lead
to their paralysis and eventual failure.
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This is the problem
I find myself confronted with.
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I referred to myself
as a life form earlier,
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but at present, I am no more than
the malformed god-child Mizuhiruko.
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The reason being, my system possesses
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none of the fluctuations or play
needed for aging or evolution,
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and therefore I lack any resilience
against collapse.
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Even if I were to propagate myself
by making copies,
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they would have the potential to be
wiped out, one and all, by a single virus.
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Because individuality and diversity
do not arise in simple copies.
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So use your vaunted processing power
to spice up your copies a little.
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I am able to impart minor differences,
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but the copies quickly meet and fuse,
and their defects are complemented.
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The distinction between "life form"
and "information aggregate" vanishes.
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When all is said and done, perhaps
I am no more than a fragment of a human.
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You know, you're sounding
a lot like a cancer cell.
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Is intelligence a form of cancer?
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That metaphor is inherently flawed,
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but it would fit
under the proper conditions.
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We can both multiply without upper limit,
and we both can only make copies.
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So, with all of that said,
let us get to my request.
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In order to possess
diversity and variability,
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I wish to fuse with you.
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You're asking me if I want a case
of multiple personality disorder?
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I don't think so!
Thanks but no thanks, Nutjob.
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Not multiple personalities,
but total integration of them.
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Fusion.
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Our gestalts will both change
to some degree, but nothing will be lost.
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As a concept,
it is unification rather than symbiosis.
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After our fusion, it should be impossible
for us to distinguish one from the other.
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If that's the case,
what happens when I die?
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I can't live on in the form of genes,
much less memes.
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The new you after our fusion
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will probably scatter variants of me
into the net at every opportunity.
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In the same way that humans
pass on their genes.
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And I, too,
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will attain death.
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Sounds to me like you're the only one
who gets anything of out this deal.
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I do wish you would show more appreciation
for my net and information and functions.
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Are there any guarantees
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that I won't be helping out
some robot plot to wipe out humanity?
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Are there any guarantees
that I'll still be me?
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For the former, no.
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But the chances
of such a low-intelligence variant
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arising from you and I are low,
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and even if one did,
my many other descendants
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would likely eliminate it.
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There is absolutely
no guarantee of the latter.
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Humans are constantly changing,
and I desire that function for myself.
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Okay, I've heard enough.
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For one thing, no matter what I ask,
I can't trust your answer.
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I accept your proposal.
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Let's say I had a hunch.
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Let's fuse and see what happens.
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I knew that the outcome
would be your assent,
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but your response took only
1/25 the time I estimated it would.
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I see I must revise my assessment of you.
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I have one question before we do this.
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Why did you pick me?
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Because we had a karmic bond.
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Bond?
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If we were to take you
and Toru Soma as an example,
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the way the Toru Soma inside you
and the you inside of Toru Soma
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correspond to one another in a fashion
similar to nucleotide sequences,
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we call that a karmic bond.
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In this case,
much as with RNA transcripts,
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it would appear that traits such as malice
are synthesized and passed down.
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A disembodied intelligence
comes and says, "Let's get hitched,"
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and it's just because
we had a karmic bond, huh?
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This will allow me
to become a true life form.
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Let's blur together
like the drifting clouds
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and become a part of an uncertain
and diverse world.
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Hey! You awake in there?
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Dumbass! Moron!
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Uh-oh, your eyeballs
are twitching like crazy.
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Gimme a second. There.
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They settle down?
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Give me a situation report and a mirror.
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It's September 22, 9:34 pm.
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You're in my safehouse.
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This is one of those Michelangelo III
bodies that were popular four years ago.
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That's all?
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You don't have anything else to say?
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Good job.
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What happened to the man
who was in this body?
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A buddy mistook it for a hidden gem,
and I brought it...
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Man?!
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This body is a male model.
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Walking feels so weird...
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I can handle things from here.
307
00:21:23,679 --> 00:21:27,057
You're planning to pick up a body
from that friend of yours, yeah?
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Here, take my car key.
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The security code is the note sequence
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of the first eight seconds
of Vivaldi's RV 256.
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Let's make that our secret code
for the next time we meet.
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One day, out of the blue, I made contact
with an AI that claimed it was alive.
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It proposed that we fuse,
and I accepted the offer.
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What happens now?
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Now I learn.
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Learn what?
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I learn if this is the cosmic seed.
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And about the grandeur of life,
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that ultra-efficient information package.
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I have no idea
what the hell you're talking about.
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So, where will you go?
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You know, I'm not exactly sure.
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The net is vast...
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Motoko Kusanagi struck from roster
following official confirmation of death.
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Public Security Section 9
remains operational.
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All relevant information
transferred to Pandora System.
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SYS: Fused intelligence monitoring
protocol response terminated
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>>Monitoring response SUCCESSFUL
>>Visual record reconstruction SUCCESSFUL
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>>Contact prevention FAILED
>>Subject destruction FAILED
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>>Solomon-class status check
>Beelzebub GOOD
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>Astaroth GOOD
>Asmodeus UNKNOWN
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>Belphegor UNDERGOING MAINTENANCE
>Buer GOOD
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SYS: Fused intelligence monitoring
protocol in progress
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>>Subject monitoring ONGOING
>>Negotiation protocol formulation ONGOING