This is a more focused discussion forum, in which we can continue our exploration of one key aspect of the readings from Philip K Dick for this week. I am supplying a discussion prompt below, to which you can respond. Feel free to respond to your classmates' posts as well.

Do strive to keep the conversation here with each other civil and respectful, and relevant to Philip K Dick, the themes, plots, and characters of the works, and the ideas he's exploring.

If you write overly long, very complex, or unfocused posts, you might find people read them but are less interested in responding to them.

Here's the prompt:

Some science fiction authors and many philosophers (among other people) expect reality, whether experienced or depicted, to be ultimately coherent. Dick pretty famously disagrees with this idea. Does that mean that he is abandoning any notion of the real as opposed to the fake, imaginary, or merely apparent? What do you make of his ideas on this matter?