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Philip K. Dick’s novel Blade Runner: (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) explores many issues with how humans treat androids. On one hand the humans treat android animals like they were real, but treat the human androids like machines. The androids do have some emotions, intelligence, and artificial memories that keep them from realizing what they actually are. Philip K. Dick explains the issue of what makes humans human? Is it the body, mind, or some combination of both? The androids possess almost all human qualities except the feeling of empathy (the ability to place oneself in the position of another living being and understand that person’s feelings), which is arguable. There are some things that androids do which might lead one to believe that they do feel empathy. In any instance, Philip K. Dick argues that maybe the humans are the inhumane ones.
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