P. Dick, Simulacrum

Someone has built a Philip K. Dick android. For the love of God, please don't tell it about the micro-punched tape in its chest.

Comments

[Twba]

The robot will portray Dick in both form and intellect through an artificial-intelligence-driven personality.

In other words, a robot will portray an (S)-N,a-Dimethylbenzene-ethanamine driven personality.

[Todd Fletcher]

We could do this with joe! Think about it, who would ever notice?

[Ken Shultz]

Surely, Mr. Dick must have known that this would happen eventually.

[Stevo Darkly]

I can't belive no one has asked this: Does it dream of electric sheep? (Or is that too obvious?)

Hey, joe's OK. I'm glad he's here to keep things from getting too homogenous.

[Stretch]

Well, I suppose if you're going to name a robot ISAC, you might as well build a PKD android. The question is, can it drop acid?

[David]

Stevo,

Almost as obvious as asking if the memories will be implanted by Rekal, Inc.

[thaddeus may]

how long until it starts studying itself?

[dead_elvis]

FedEx Institute of Technology at U of Memphis? Wow, I had no idea they were up to stuff like this. I thought they were doing boring stuff like making conveyor belts more efficient. At the most, I would have thought they were working on a way to keep CEO Fred Smith's brain alive in a jar.

Count on this new android to dream up a way to ship an electric sheep overnight.

"When it absolutely, positively, has to have a new reality overnight."

[MayDay72]

I can't belive no one has asked this: Does it dream of electric sheep? (Or is that too obvious?) -A Scanno Darkly

Hee hee...Dammit! I wanted to post that one...

[Stevo Darkly]

Almost as obvious as asking if the memories will be implanted by Rekal, Inc.

I'm afraid I don't remember the reference. 🙂

[Mark]

Re Rekal Inc, explanation courtesy Technovelgy.com:

Philip K. Dick's marvelous short story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (from which the film Total Recall is taken) is a story about identity and memory. In the story, a company called Rekal, Inc. is able to send you on a "vacation" by implanting a set of false memories. When the procedure is completed, you remember having taken the trip:

"Is an extra-factual memory that convincing?" Quail asked.

"More than the real thing, sir...our analysis of true-mem systems - authentic recollections of major events in a person's life - shows that a variety of details are very quickly lost..."

[Jeff A. Taylor]

I merely hope they build androids better than they build Web pages. Yeech, what a mess.

[Stevo Darkly]

I agree on the Web site -- a case of "form fouls function." Although I've seen worse.

[Fat Guy From Total Recall With]

I'm afraid I don't remember the reference. 🙂

You know, "RE-call, RE-call, RE-call"