Rachael Rosen IS an android.

Around page 59, Rick Deckard discovers that Rachael Rosen is an android by giving her the Voight-Kampff test. Racahel herself did not know that she was an android. Only her uncle did. This is interesting because Philip K. Dick is seemingly blending the characters that are humans and androids. Another example can be Luba Luft the opera singer. Back to Rachael, she thinks that she is an 18 year old woman, living as a normal being; in reality, she is a Nexus-6 android. She must have had false recollections implanted into her 'brain' to give her childhood memories. Androids really only 'live' for 4 years before they wear out; and she was created 2 years ago. It is implied that because Philip K. Dick gives all these androids consciousness and human thoughts and feelings to the point where they think they are human, that androids maybe are not too different from humans. Rick, eventually, is seduced by Rachael and because he feels a physical attraction to her; even though he recognizes that mentally it is kind of weird, he still feels some sort of love towards her.

I, Robot vs Do Androids...

Just posting about some of the broad differences between these two novels. These differences can pretty much all be found in the introduction to an essay I am writing:

An interesting though I had was how it seems that Asimov and Phillip Dick are using different methods of "leveling the value" of humans and robots/androids

-In I, Robot, Asimov brings the level of value of robots up to the human level.

-In Philip K Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” humans are brought down to the value of androids.

Phillip K Dick provides humans that are not as kind or innocent as, say, Gloria. Instead, he has characters like Rick Deckard whose occupation is to permanently shut down androids. Rick believes that robots do not feel, this in turn seems to bring down the morality of humans, towards robots.

It seems like a difference between the two is that Asimov suggests that robots really are something special, and that Phillip Dick implies that humans really aren't anything special.

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