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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

PREMIUM-Episode 175: Blade Runner (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2017

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Do you want the WHOLE discussion on the new Blade Runner 2049, the original 1982 film, and the idea packed Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1967) by Philip K. Dick?

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0:00.0

I've seen things new people wouldn't believe.

0:06.2

Oh is that so? Well I think you ain't seen nothing till you've heard part two of the

0:10.4

partially examined life Blade Runner episode with an entire additional hour of

0:14.6

conversation about Do Android's dream of electro-sheep by the great Philip K. Dick

0:19.3

and both movies, covering a lot of weird and wacky topics here are some tidbits.

0:24.4

We haven't embraced the resource that every other great foreishing of the human race

0:30.4

has embraced which is having slave labor. It's a hard thing to explain. Having a

0:34.6

servant you can depend on in these troubled times I find it reassuring.

0:38.4

I love the squirrel record every goddamn morning I feed it and change it's

0:41.7

papers. What distinguishes human beings from replicants is this capacity for

0:46.7

empathy that cannot be faked. I felt like this was a picture of the

0:50.4

pacific in the experience machine or something. What has the activity of being a

0:55.1

bounty hunter and killing Androids done to him? The radiation will mutate you and

1:00.2

that's how you become a special as opposed to a normal or regular. Left to its own

1:06.2

devices it tends towards meaninglessness it tends towards apathy it tends towards

1:12.1

kippel both psychological and literal. Little flying rocks and stuff like that.

1:17.3

Unskeptical of a religious movement that requires emulation of the tragic

1:24.2

sacrificial main figure but I certainly think there was something worth redeeming in it.

1:30.5

Fresh you know as you pointed out Mark accuses him just liking the sexy

1:34.4

empathizing with sexually attractive ones. We don't have a young Obi-Wan to walk

1:39.9

into the scene and good thing that joy projections aren't really conscious. You

1:44.5

guys are so unsinitemental. He's looking for the Lexus of animals and ends up

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