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> What Dick really got his fingernails under was the idea that our subjective reality, our semantic map of the real, has become more real to us than any objecti
by max76 8y ago
> What Dick really got his fingernails under was the idea that our subjective reality, our semantic map of the real, has become more real to us than any objective reality.
[Warning, will discuss spoilers about a PKD story]
He does this well in his short story Total Recall. The objective reality is written over by memory implementations. However, he still feels the desire to go to Mars because no memory implantation can override his inherit nature. The Grand Truth is so bizarre that during it's first uncovering everyone believes it is a fantasy. When objective truth is proven true it terrifies those that know it.
- mirceal 8y agoI think PKD does this in many of his works.
- empath75 8y ago> The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
- InitialLastName 8y agoSlight correction: the short story published as "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale," not "Total Recall".