Analysis Of The Precession Of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick

Determining what is real, or fake, comes down to who you are asking, something real to you could be fake to someone else, but that does not mean it is fake. Mitch Hedberg once said, “My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them”. Although it was said as a joke, it directly correlates with the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. Dick creates a post apocalypse future where humans and androids live together. The androids are supposed to be there to fulfill the needs of the human owners, but some stray away from this idea and murder their owners to escape. Leading Rick, the main character, to retire the dangerous android criminals who have escaped. Raising the question to what is real, Jean Baudrillard has a theory. Jean Baudrillard’s theory, “The Precession of Simulacra”, of the simulacra is that we see and understand the reality of the world in a never-ending loop of representations representing representations. His theory can be used to determine who, or what, is the simulacra in …show more content…
Androids where directly modeled after their human counterpart, both mentally and physically. “Black hair and slender” (Dick, pg. 38). The description of the android’s figure is usually associated with the way we view and describe humans. Describing the android as a human leads the reader to view the android as a human before it can be determined by the Voigt-Kampff test. We do not normally associate those types of terms to inanimate objects, yet the description seems appropriate because the object in question is so close to the real thing, that it is nearly impossible to tell a human and an android apart, without the test mentioned previously. Even with the test it has become difficult to distinguish who is who because of the increase of intelligence, as well as