Friday, 5 June 2015
Lyrique Journal Entry #3: What is the book saying about life?
This book takes place during a time of destruction where as the human race, they've destroyed their home, earth, and nearly the entire race; and they were forced to move to off-world colonies. But even living in these new colonies, they managed to nearly destroy man-kind's culture once again. The book is set in the future with flying cars, and robots; it paints us this picture of a dream life. But the underlying story tells us that the future is not all happy. Phillip K. Dick writes that no matter how good we try to make life, new problems always arise. We can't fix life because it's in our nature to screw things up. If we try repair something, something else will malfunction. Just like how the in Blade Runner the humans tried to better their lives by creating the android, but after everything the androids were taking over the human race. From what we've learned about human nature, as a people we can't have anything dominate us, and our only solution is to "retire" the problem.
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I agree with what you're saying about humans destroying everything. In the novel, when Rick went to the Rosen company to test the Voigt-Kampff test on the new Nexus 6, it was said that some androids are built to see what are the flaws so that the Rosen company can fix that flaw and make it even closer to a real human. The new Nexus 6 android is better in terms that they are programmed to react with empathy. The test, however, can detect a later reaction which is why they are able to identify the androids. Once the Rosen company fixes the delayed time of reaction in the androids, how will the bounty hunters be able to identfy who's a human and who's an android?
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