- Psymechs
Psymechs are advanced
cyborg brain technicians in the Japanesemanga movie "Ghost in the shell ", which is set in the future Japan of2029 . The name is a fusion of the Greek wordpsy , forpsychological , and the wordmechanic .Psymechs are a combination of doctor and cyborg engineer/technician. Similar to
Official Programmers (who are screened, scrutinized, and monitored by the government), they are similar in knowledge and skills but different in the sense that they are more oriented towards the hardware aspects of data storage and retrieval.Psymechs work on
cyber brains, which contain combinations of living brain cells andartificial intelligence . The mainconscious core of thecyber , which could be explained as the soul, but in the future would be called a "ghost ", in a reference to retainingpurity in an increasingly electronic and mechanical world. The ghost is protected from intrusion and corruption bycyber barriers andbackup brain systems. The ghost is connected to the net through the barrier or border between net and consciousness. The cyber body is called a "shell".This concept of soul and
consciousness was explored byFrancis Crick in his scientific work in the book "The Astonishing Hypothesis ", which explains the perceptual and cognitive sub-systems comprising our consciousness inside the structure of the brain-which could also be called thesoul . "Ghost in the Machine " byArthur Koestler also examines original psychological perspectives on this topic of the soul and its connection to reality.
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