Topic 10- 'PK Dick,living in the future'

Lecture:
In the lecture this week, Harrison Fords 1982 sci-fi blockbuster was watched in class. The movie was interesting in how it was presented and acted out. It was an interesting insight into a someone’s personal view of the future. The movie delves into thought about over-population of the globe, climate change and also genetic engineering. The movie is based on the future and the ability for humans to be genetically manufactured and programmed to live a four year life span. Although dated, the movie is still a good and interesting one to watch and enjoy.

Tutorial:
In the tutorial today there was a class discussion about the assignment and the draft. Each person in the class had a turn in explaining their assignment giving an introduction and a brief run down of the assignment and the points they would be talking about.

Readings:
The reading for this week was an essay named ‘An exploration of what it is to be human’. It discussed humanity or lack of, in the form of human interaction in things that as humans we don’t understand but still wish to control. It talked about how humans judge only on what we know and not what can be known or discovered. The essay also talked about the Voight-Kampff machine and how humans and replicants can show a difference and be told apart by this machine. The machine watches and then deciphers ‘between instinctive and stimulated responses’.