TurquoiseB wrote: > Willytex is easily ignored. > This brings up the question of human conciousness, robot conciousness, and how they are similar and different from us thinking humanoids. The main theme of Phillip K. Dick's novel, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' concerns similarity and difference; sentient robots that look identical to humans, but are not human at all. The central question is wheteher or not we can spot replicants in order to retire them. Looming in the background is the question: is Deckard himself a replicant?
Thinking like a replicant is the way Deckard explores his own conciousness and humanity. Replicants, that is, androids, make Deckard realize that he might not be so human after all. He actually becomes more inhuman than the replicants he is remorselessly hunting! Read more: http://www.rwilliams.us/archives/androids.htm 'Blade Runner' Starring Harrison Ford Directed by Ridley Scott The Final Cut, two-disc Special Edition, 2007 http://tinyurl.com/2gsu65
