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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

e novel or their mechanical facsimiles the androids are more truly human. The consideration of this distinction is an integral part of a serious reading of the book. The religion of Mercerism distorts human needs in order to make humans more mechanical. At the same time, it does encourage the experience of empathy, which in one form or another serves as the basis of the religions in Smith's study.

This examination of the nature of empathy is certainly one of the most significant aspects of both the book and the religion in the book. Empathy is shown to be an inherent aspect of human nature, as well as the missing feature in androids. In fact, androids are exposed as non-human when they are given an empathy test:

[Rick] had wondered as had most people . . . precisely why an android bounced helplessly about when confronted by an empathy-measuring test. Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community. . . . The empathic fac

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