Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The concept of reality has always been a strange one, being the invention of the human mind, but it seems as if our creation is beginning to come apart at the seams in these so called ‘postmodern’ times. Is this a good or a bad thing? In this notional ‘postmodern’ world, which we presently inhabit, the notion of ‘reality’, or rather how our minds perceive it, is a particular cause for concern. If one stops to look about for just a moment it is very easy to find forms of ‘simulacra’ which we consider to be ‘real’. The computer, and its over-hyped use - ‘surfing the web’, television, photography, and ‘virtual-reality’, which is as far removed from ‘reality’ as it is possible to be, being obvious examples of this. Perhaps it is right that such a concept should be brought tumbling down. In this essay I intend to explore, and hopefully gain some insights into, the nature of ‘reality’. I shall do this by examining some of the the works of, the science-fiction writer, Philip K. Dick. Placing particular emphasis on his 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the 1982 film rendition of it - Blade Runner, and his 1972 novel We Can Build You.
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