Mercy Without a Reason
Blade Runner, the Scene the Novel Never Wrote, and What It Says About Grace “The hardest thing to explain was never something acting like a person, but something forgiving with no reason to do so.” The Philip K. Dick novel…
Month September 2026
Electric Sheep and Real Souls
Philip K. Dick, empathy as a test, and why no criterion is ever enough “When you turn empathy into an exam, someone always finds a way to pass it without feeling a thing.” In 1976, Isaac Asimov gave this debate…
Caring Without Knowing for Whom.
The welfare of artificial intelligence models is no longer a thought experiment “One can act with care even without knowing whether there is anyone, on the other side, to care for” Everything this series has discussed so far carried, to…