Timeline for In Phillip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", is Deckard a replicant?
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| Oct 19, 2023 at 15:16 | comment | added | Andres F. | Deckard can feel empathy and androids cannot; I think that settles the question. What's confusing is that people conflate this with Blade Runner the movie, where replicants can quite obviously feel emotions. The themes of novel and movie do not match perfectly. | |
| Mar 27, 2020 at 14:34 | comment | added | user127301 | Good point. I think the problem lies with the author. Although the concept is good, the execution is poor. Some things are explained as if it were a children's story and other things are not explained--such as whether Resch is an android and whether there were more than eight androids on Earth, as the scene at the police station implies. If Dick had developed this idea of androids replacing humans on Earth, had given them a longer life span and the ability to reproduce, it would have been a better novel. Instead, he reverted to the "humans are superior and androids are evil" theme at the end. | |
| Mar 26, 2020 at 15:08 | history | edited | user127301 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 26, 2020 at 2:58 | comment | added | DavidW | Note that the androids are not mechanical; they are biologically close enough to human that a microscopic analysis is required to definitively identify them. Thus any reference to mechanical/electronic thinking is metaphorical, in the same way that we might speak of someone thinking so hard we can hear the gears turning. | |
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| Mar 26, 2020 at 2:30 | history | answered | user127301 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |