From ‘Mobile Suit Gundam’ to ‘Ghost in the Shell’ and ‘Westworld’ An Analysis of Technological Ethics and Philosophical Theories in Science Fiction

Yuming Qiu; Muying Luo

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From ‘Mobile Suit Gundam’ to ‘Ghost in the Shell’ and ‘Westworld’ An Analysis of Technological Ethics and Philosophical Theories in Science Fiction

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Yuming Qiu¹, Muying Luo¹^{, 2}^{, *}

¹Zhujiang College, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

²College of Creative Arts, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia

^*Corresponding author. Email: luomuying.uitm@gmail.com

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Muying Luo

Available Online 29 September 2024.

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Keywords: cyborgs; technoethics; human-machine integration; transhumanism; technological determinism
Abstract: This paper explores the future of war, human complexity and the political dilemmas of post-human societies as depicted in the sci-fi series Mobile Suit Gundam, Ghost in the Shell and Westworld. The ethics of science fiction and technology embedded in the works are discussed. The paper analyzes how the series makes innovative use of these concepts to explore the dynamic relationship between technology and human society. And it considers how these themes influence our understanding of the future relationship between technology, humans and social evolution. The three science fiction film and television dramas simultaneously provide key frameworks for discussing the moral and ethical dimensions of technological progress in the future world.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the 2024 3rd International Conference on Science Education and Art Appreciation (SEAA 2024)
Series: Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date: 29 September 2024
ISBN: 978-2-38476-291-0
ISSN: 2352-5398
DOI: 10.2991/978-2-38476-291-0_2 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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