The article engages with the popular Japanese media franchise Ghost in the Shell, discerning its cultural aspects and influence through a philosophical reflection of its main materialistic idea, namelly, the dual relationship between mind and body. The interpretation is legitimazied by the fact that the author of the original manga series, Masamune Shirow, was influenced by Arthur Koestler's book Ghost in the Machine, esentially a structuralist anti-Cartesian meditation. The author of the present article argues that the main underlying materialistic idea of the ghost in the shell can be originally reinterpreted and developed further through Hegelian dialectics.
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