IIRC in the book the test wasn’t even about what they literally said, it was measuring some sort of reflexive electrical impulse. The questions were outrageous to trigger an emotional response, and they were checking to see the speed that that response happened at because of a mechanical difference between the human nervous system and the replicants’.
Yup, this is true. Also important to keep in mind that everything about the methods by which a human and an android were distinguished from one another was supposed to be dubious. The only “100% sure” way was to literally kill them and dig out bits of their brain (which apparently do not look different from human parts) and send it to some lab for “testing.” Exactly what is and isn’t an android is very ambiguous. I like 60% think that everyone featured in the book is an android and that life on Earth is completely extinct.
IIRC in the book the test wasn’t even about what they literally said, it was measuring some sort of reflexive electrical impulse. The questions were outrageous to trigger an emotional response, and they were checking to see the speed that that response happened at because of a mechanical difference between the human nervous system and the replicants’.
Yup, this is true. Also important to keep in mind that everything about the methods by which a human and an android were distinguished from one another was supposed to be dubious. The only “100% sure” way was to literally kill them and dig out bits of their brain (which apparently do not look different from human parts) and send it to some lab for “testing.” Exactly what is and isn’t an android is very ambiguous. I like 60% think that everyone featured in the book is an android and that life on Earth is completely extinct.