According to Nick Brostrom: “The human species is still young on this planet, and it is possible that we have as yet seen little of what is possible for us to become.” Think of the developments humans have made over the past thirty years, we’ve created smartphones, laptops, and other technological advances that have changed the world so it’s only logical to think that we will develop this new brand of human, the new and improved versions of ourselves. Such as androids, the androids in Dick’s novel are created as house slaves when the humans decided to immigrate to Mars after the war destroyed Earth. Each of the families that chose to immigrate is given an android to help make their lives easier. Which is learned during the interview John Isidore is watching on his Television. Mrs. Maggie Klugman who has …show more content…
He makes a living, retiring/killing androids after administering the Voigt-Kampff test. He asks the test subject a variety of questions that should evoke an emotional response; he then uses their responses to deem if the test subject is human or android. He tests other characters’ ability to experience empathy. Which does not make sense, because all humans can react differently to stimulus. A.M Turning addresses the different reactions of humans in his article ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’. What Turning notes it that: “It is not possible to produce a set of rules purporting to describe what a man should do in every conceivable set of circumstances” (16). There is no set way humans should react to different situations, which is why Rick is so quick to believe that Rachael Rosen is human with a dulled sense of empathy. There is not a codebook written telling humans how to react, they react based on their own personalities and experiences in life. How is it an accurate way to test if someone is human if there is no guaranteed