Tagged "Entropy"

“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” by American author Philip K. Dick is known for a multitude of reasons; aside from the combined science fiction prevalence and influence of its great film adaptation, as well as general critical acclaim, it is a deep novel with a multitude of advanced themes. Thereamong, the issue of simulacrum is raised together with a meditation on the bane of the human condition—that is: entropy and mortality. Even though the latter in particular is not central, the story of Rick Deckard taking prime focus, it is precisely that which has fascinated me about the novel and thence it is this element which I will discuss in the article following.