Episode 175: Blade Runner: Androids and Humanity (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2017
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1967) and the films Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and Blade Runner (1982).
What makes us human? Dick's story about androids emphasized their lack of empathy, while the movie adaptations portrayed the "replicants" as plenty capable of emotion, but unjustly treated as servants or targets.
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| 0:36.5 | inserted at the last minute on a current feature film and related works. |
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| 0:51.6 | about various psychological experiments that will be released next week. |
| 0:55.2 | What you're about to hear is the first half of our discussion on Blade Runner. |
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