What If Our World is Their Heaven? Quotes

“I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown. ”
― Philip K. Dick, What If Our World is Their Heaven?: The Final Conversations

“Sound occurs in the ears. Sound does not occur in the atmosphere. It occurs essentially within the human being, and that’s Descartes’s great contribution to psychology and philosophy. Which is where that thing comes from where they say if a tree falls in the forest and no one’s there, does it make a noise?”
― Philip K. Dick, What If Our World is Their Heaven: The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dick

“Sound occurs in the ears. Sound does not occur in the atmosphere. It occurs essentially within the human being, and that’s Descartes’s great contribution to psychology and philosophy. Which is where that thing comes from where they say if a tree falls in the forest and no one’s there, does it make a noise? And that—that joke question which comes up on the Johnny Carson show every once in a while didn’t exist before Descartes, which is, you know, the seventeenth century. Descartes was the person who formulated that; he said sound occurs in the human sensory apparatus. It doesn’t occur in the atmosphere. It occurs within the body.”
― Philip K. Dick, What If Our World is Their Heaven: The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dick