In week 2 of our class, we will be starting out with our first novel, one which Dick is perhaps most famous for, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, adapted in the early 1980s into the film The Blade Runner (which is quite different in many ways from the novel). We will be examining a number of key themes, including the difference between humans and AIs, the importance of empathy, the distinction between the fake and the real, and the emergence of a new, imaginary religion
The readings for this week are:
Supplemental readings you might find useful or interesting are:
