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If we then think of the apartment system and the emanator as something akin to bodies, then Joi actually swaps bodies several times. So, what at first blush might appear to distance Joi from humans and even replicants—the fact that Joi doesn’t have a proper physical body—really brings her closer to the Cartesian idea of what is most essentially human: Joi is pure, disembodied “soul.
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Robin Bunce (Blade Runner 2049 and Philosophy: This Breaks the World (Popular Culture and Philosophy Book 127))