Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
The Film's Basic Storyline
Androids, Replicants, and Humans
Electric Sheep Transmuted
From Workprint to Final Cut
The Deck-a-Rep Debate
'You Did a Man's Work. But Are You a Man?'
'Proud of Yourself, Little Man?'
Conclusions
2 Being Human
Introduction
'It's Artificial?'
'You Nexus, Huh?'
'You're So Different'
'We Have a Lot in Common'
'Did You Ever Take that Test Yourself?'
'Now It's My Turn'
'More Human than Human'
Conclusions
3 Persons
Introduction
'They Were Designed to Copy Human Beings'
'I'm Not in the Business. I Am the Business'
'That Was Irrational of You'
'Replicants are Like Any Other Machine'
'The Custom Tailored Genetically Engineered Humanoid Replicant'
'Nothing is Worse than Having an Itch You Can Never Scratch'
'That's What It Is to Be a Slave'
Conclusions
4 Identity
Introduction
'How Can It Not Know What It Is?'
'Memories β You're Talking about Memories!'
'I Can't Rely Onβ¦'
'Deckard, Ninety-Seven'
'I Don't Know if It's Me or Tyrell's Niece'
'There's Some of Me in You'
'You Play Beautifully'
Conclusions
5 Consciousness
Introduction
'I Think, Sebastian, Therefore I Am'
'We're Not Computers, Sebastian'
'Very Good, Pris. Now Show Him Why'
'He Design Your Mind, Your Brain'
'I Had in Mind Something a Little More Radical'
'We're Physical'
Conclusions
6 Freedom
Introduction
'No Choice, Pal'
'The Great Advantage to Being Alive is Having a Choice'
'I'd Rather Be a Killer than a Victim'
'Show Me What You're Made Of'
'Yeah, What Do You Want?'
'I Don't Know Why He Saved My Life'
Conclusions
7 Being Good
Introduction
Overcoming and Becoming
Beyond Good and Evil
'Aren't You the "Good Man"?'
'Man is Something that Should be Overcome'
A Nexus 6 Γbermensch?
'Is He Good?'
Conclusions
8 God
Introduction
'Fiery the Angels Fell'
'Rebel Angels from th' Ethereal Skie'
'I Ought to be Thy Adam'
'Man is Nothing Else but What He Makes of Himself'
'You Were Made as Well as We Could Make You'
'Man is the Being Whose Project is to be God'
Conclusions
9 Death
Introduction
'Can the Maker Repair What He Makes?'
'I'm Afraid That's a Little Out of My Jurisdiction'
'How Long Do I Live?'
'I Want More Life'
'Four, Five. How to Stay Alive'
Conclusions
10 Time and Meaning
Introduction
'All Those Moments Will Be Lost in Time'
'All the Time, Pal'
'Time to Die'
'Time Enough'
'Four Years Was a Short Time or a Long Time'
'It's Too Bad She Won't Live'
Conclusions
Epilogue
Notes
Literature Cited
Index