I wrote a response to an article written by a friend who runs a site on blogger.com. So, Ethan Mills, this one is for you, although it is still mine. It was one of those responses that you write without thinking, and then afterwards you discover it's all wrong. All very wrong. The subject was Ghost in the Shell, a simple enough title, but I referred to it as Ghost in the Machine. It has been a mistake that I have made since the very first time I watched it, a long time ago. I now wonder if this effected my reading of the film. Is there something mechanistic in the concept of the machine confuses or overlays the sense of the organic form of the shell. So, like every diligent researcher, I began to follow the clues across the archives; but then I thought this is a blog, so I stopped at the level of titles and then Wikipedia. The title Ghost in the Machine has a history of its own, which can be traced to Gilbert Ryle in his book, Concept of mind that was published in 1949. It is ...