The title makes better sense for the original movie, where dummy cyborg bodies (shells) are taken over by a rogue AI. The movie asks what role our biological co

The title makes better sense for the original movie, where dummy cyborg bodies (shells) are taken over by a rogue AI. The movie asks what role our biological consciousness plays when our lives are so intertwined with technology (the cyborgs in the movie possess cyberbrains where neurons are fused with circuitry). The ending of the movie is particularly stark to this end as well. The TV series is mostly about the second title, the "Stand Alone Complex," a phenomenon where some behaviors and movements arise within unrelated groups of people with no identifiable source.