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Warren DeMontague

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6. It sounds to me like it's continuing a proud tradition of over-analyzing shit into the ground
Sat Jan 4, 2014, 05:26 PM
Jan 2014

well past the point of absurdity.

Seems to me the central philosophical point of the Movie (and possibly, by extension, the PKD story it is based on, although if I read it it was a long time ago and I've forgotten the details) is the old idea that there is no difference between an "artificial" intelligence and an organic one; that robots or cyborgs or replicants could or will have 'souls' and humanity just like everyone else.

Turns out the Sean Young character is supposed to be a Replicant, and it's heavily implied that Deckard, the Harrison Ford Character, may also be one. Roy Batty, played by Rutger Hauer, saves Deckard's life near the end of the film and then proceeds to give one of the best death speeches in cinema history. The implication of the film is, our creations are as much us as we are.

I don't see how anyone could turn that around into a parable of men wanting to make sex-bots.

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