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"I share the view of Pythagoras that the world is number. The ultimate substrate of the universe is math. There's no way to test that - it's pure metaphysical speculation."
- Bart Kosko
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| Replicant | ||
| An android; an artificial human being. |
This term for an android is used in the movie Blade Runner, which was made from the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. However, the term is never used in the book.
See the entry for andy to learn more about Philip K. Dick's take on humanity.
In the following quote, Ridley Scott, director of Bladerunner, explains the origin of the word "replicant:"
"When we set out to do this film, we decided to make 'android' a taboo word. I said anybody who uses the word 'android' gets their head broken with a baseball bat. The word sets up all sorts of preconceptions of the kind of film this could be. An android might be human, actually flesh and blood, gentically structured, but we simply decided not to use the word because its over-used and misused. So we developed our own word, which is the word 'replicant.'"
| Technovelgy from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,
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