Episode 175: Blade Runner: Androids and Humanity (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Mark Linsenmayer
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Show Notes
On Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1967) and the films Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and Blade Runner (1982).
What makes us human? Dick's story about androids emphasized their lack of empathy, while the movie adaptations portrayed the "replicants" as plenty capable of emotion, but unjustly treated as servants or targets.
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