ch 10-11

Cram takes Rick to the "new police station" to meet Garland (head of the police department) and Resch (a bounty hunter). Garland turns out to be an android on Ricks list. Phil, like Rachel, doesn't know that he is an android...hunting androids. Rick protects Phil from being found out, so Phil sneaks Rick out. After they get out and are on their way to kill Luft, Rick starts to wonder if he is an androids. This thought is totally appropriate. There is just as good of a chance that Rick is an android as well, considering Rachel and Phil had no idea. This though could be applied to present day human i guess, but i dont see why it should bother them so much. Androids seem pretty human like to me, and thats what i set out to be.

ch 9

Rick takes a trip to the opera in order to hopefully catch Luba Luft. The way PKD described Rick scanning over her in the opera makes it seem as if he has feelings for this android. Even though i dont see how a person could take interest in an artificial being, im in no position to judge what weird things people are going to be doing in a hundred years. Who knows, maybe humans won't get along with eachother in the future and resort to having relationships with androids. When Rick approached her and started questioning her she seemed as if she already knew what was coming for her. She answered all the questions very indirectly and i think manipulated that knowledge with Ricks obvious attraction for her. She picked up too heavy of a "vibe" i guess and called the cops on Rick, claiming he was a pervert. Officer Crams comes in to take Rick away. If the androids work this hard to protect themselves from being either taken away or retired, then they know how precious freedom is and should cease to be slaves i think. The whole point of having and android is for it to be this emotionless machine that does what you say. When they start to develop feelings, its just not right to opress them.

ch 8

Upon Ricks return from Seattle, he's given the assignment to hunt down polokov. Rick is told to work with a Soviet police officer to help track him down but out of i guess self-righteousness, he goes on without him. He shows up at Polokovs appartment but hes not there. He's supposed to meet the Soviet cop but he first gets a call from Rachel who helps him realize that this man is actually the android he's hunting. He retires him soon after. When he calls Iran to tell her about it, she is totally uninterested. Iran is one of my favorite characters because she's so out of touch to me with this whole futuristic society. She understands the importance of feeling blue and not being fake all the time, even though shes artificially putting her self in this depression.

ch 7

This chapters based around John. He brings a sick cat to the fake vet but it dies on the way there. When he got to work his boss was giving him a bunch of crap. He was calling him a chickenhead and telling him to do stuff he knew he couldnt do. John had to contact the owners of the cat and let them know that it had died. The wife of the couple that owned the cat said she would order a replica so the husband wouldnt get upset. That would really upset me living in a world where everything was so dispensible like that. Maybe this is why they lost interest in trying to be human and not alter themselves because they have the mentality if somethings not the way you want it, you manipulate it to be the way you desire. I can see this with present day humans, especially with higher power figures. Huge governmental figures have no problem changing the world around them to fit their needs. The thought that it could become all too common in the future really freaks me out.

Ch 6

In chapter six, John goes to his neighbors appartment. It said that as soon as he started knocking on the door that the tv cut off which was really weird to me. He akwardly told her through the closed the door that he was her neighbor and wanted them to be friends when she opened the door. The way Dick described her creeped me out: "a girl who cringed and slunk away yet held onto the door, as if for physical support". When he explained that they were the only ones in the building, she got more confident and stood up. He tried to make small talk with her about buster friendly but she had no idea what he was talking about. She seemed either really weird or strung out...like a neighbor i didnt want to meet. Isadore later talked about how the empathy box was "and extension of your body". Its as if theyre not satisfied with the way their natural human bodies are, theyre trying to remove themselves further from naturality by considering these stupid machines a part of them.

Youtube link

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ch 5

The book really picks up in this chapter. It starts out by Rick giving Rachel the vkt. After all the questions it concluded that she was an android. This is really crazy because it shows how good androids are at posing as humans. It also said something about the new nexus 6 androids being able to show emotion or feelings. Its as if androids are acting like humans better than real humans are. It also really confuses me because i dont know how you could create something as personal as emotion through a computer.