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Philip K. Dick: Prophet with James Tunney

New Thinking Allowed Audio Podcast

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The Importance of the Simulakrum

Philip K. Dick sought to look back at all the great explorations philosophically from Plato and Platonism, Neoplatonism,. And going back as well to Akhenart and in Egypt and his idea, what we know about light. He was trying to assimilate a whole range of views to present us with an alternative view. His idea of the Simulakrum was very, very influential on the French postmodernist. It comes back to context of what is a human and what if we have a second person that looks like a human and how can we distinguish them?

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