![]() ![]() Lost of profit as planned obsolescence is what keeps SAI's Giftia business profitable and 9 years is already pretty generous considering that Giftia is essentially a special tech. So removing the limit may become a threat to social stability. It made owning a Giftia more akin to caring a dying relative than employing someone who is a threat to your jobs. With the handicapp, Giftias can't replace humans as effectively as they can and it also gives the humans a reason to sympathize with the Android. The removal of the time limit may be removing the only handicapp placed on the Android. Thus starting a pretty frustrating ethics debate about the Ship of Theseus. #Plastic memories androidThe Androids' hardware starts to become obsolete and fail and you have to exchange parts until the Android becomes arguably another Android. They might have the time limit to avoid a 3 very unpleasant outcomes: Is it Isla's consciousness spiritually returning back to her origin? The gestation time for a new human being. When Isla dies, her body is returned to the terminal station with a new soul. as in Shintoism and Ancient Greek belief. ![]() ![]() That's her soul along with all the other giftia souls that were retrieved making their underground journey to be washed of all it's previous suffering and then reincarnated as someone else. In the title opening, we see Isla in darkness along with many other people. The words Tsukasa tells Isla before he gives her the kiss of death. However, since they have souls, they may one day be reunited with the ones they cherish. The giftias shortened lifespans cause the suffering of the humans who love them that are left behind to grieve. The takeaway is that the giftias have souls, consciousnesses. The overall message is a spiritual one, however. In Plastic Memories, these are 2 central themes that are ever present. 9 is the number of eternal suffering in the occult, for it always returns to itself mathematically. Numbers that the characters explicitly state.ĩ, or 九, pronounced ku, in Japanese is symbolically linked to 苦. 81920 hours equates to 9 years and 4 months. ![]()
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