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Maxwell Ferris asked this question about Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?:
I never really got what the empathy box was or what it did?
Darryl Perry I get the feeling that the empathy box was a means to show the difference between humans and androids. The whole point of the test was to determine if…moreI get the feeling that the empathy box was a means to show the difference between humans and androids. The whole point of the test was to determine if the test subject (supposedly an android) had any empathy. Also, the fact that the androids could not use the empathy box was another dividing line between humans an androids. So I'm feeling like the events that were occurring in the 'empathy box' did not matter so much as the fact that all of humanity could connect as one single entity.

It's almost as if the humans were evolving into another species themselves; one that changed into a hive mentality.

This reminds me of Peter F Hamilton's The Dreaming Void where he introduces the gaia field. Where people can emit and receive emotions from everybody connected to the net.(less)
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
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