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![]() A new religion, replacing Zen Buddhism has swept out of the Middle West to engulf California. Wilbur Mercer appears on television, but says nothing.
The empathy box let you have the same experience - that of Wilbur Mercer. Everyone using an empathy box a particular time has the same experience; they share the feelings of Wilbur Mercer.
The empathy box is also used in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. In the world of the novel, most people have left the earth due to a radioactive dust that contaminates the planet, killing most animal life. The empathy box is a way for the few people who are left to reconnect with the majority of humanity who have left.
Here's a quote from the later novel:
Here's what PKD had to say about the concept, in relation to his novel:
Be sure to take a look at the Visi-sonor, from the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, another invention with effects on different parts of the brain. Comment/Join this discussion ( 2 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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