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Comment author: PhilGoetz 24 August 2010 03:43:55AM *  1 point [-]

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick

I have to comment on the irony of this quote. Philip K. Dick's novels are almost all extended riffs on the idea that there is no reality; or that reality is unknowable or irrelevant (eg. The Man in the High Castle, Flow My Tears the Policemen Said, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner), We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (Total Recall)). And Philip K. Dick was unable to distinguish reality from fantasy in everyday life.

Comment author: RobinZ 24 August 2010 04:55:32AM 1 point [-]

Perhaps that's why he had to invent better tests.