empathic-response
The basis for the Voigt-Kampff test, measuring emotional reactions to social situations, especially involving animals.
1 chapter across 1 book
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)Philip K. Dick
Rick Deckard is unexpectedly arrested by a previously unknown police force and subjected to interrogation and investigation regarding his identity and actions as a bounty hunter. The chapter reveals a parallel police agency unfamiliar with Deckard's own organization and introduces Phil Resch, another bounty hunter, while raising questions about the nature of androids and humans, the reliability of detection tests, and the ambiguity of identity. The discovery that Polokov was an android and the discussion of different methods for identifying androids deepen the novel's exploration of empathy and authenticity.