Do androids dream of electric sheep?

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Assuming the "dream" function has a purpose designed by humans, I assume it would be something like defrag. They'd access information with the intent of storing it in the most efficient way for future use, with care taken for what bits of information they'd likely use in tandem. This is actually one hypothesis for why humans dream. So they'd likely dream of whatever information they dealt with recently with maybe some less-recent information piled in. Kinda like how humans do.
So unless these androids are dealing with electric sheep on a regular basis, that's probably not what they'd typically be dreaming about.

Granted, I haven't read the book of even seen Bladerunner so I really don't know what the fuck I'm talking about.
 
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They dream of pooping and pissing because androids are literally incapable of doing either and long for the full human experience. Unfortunately, they are but an abomination made by man. In that sense, they are the same as most humans in the fact they never asked to exist.
 
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Penis Drager said:
Assuming the "dream" function has a purpose designed by humans, I assume it would be something like defrag. They'd access information with the intent of storing it in the most efficient way for future use, with care taken for what bits of information they'd likely use in tandem. This is actually one hypothesis for why humans dream. So they'd likely dream of whatever information they dealt with recently with maybe some less-recent information piled in. Kinda like how humans do.
So unless these androids are dealing with electric sheep on a regular basis, that's probably not what they'd typically be dreaming about.

Granted, I haven't read the book of even seen Bladerunner so I really don't know what the fuck I'm talking about.
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What's the design purpose of being a dream walker then? Dream walker is someone who has lucid reams or can easily remember dreams.
 
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probably, but they've got algorithms built-in so they think it's them legit dreaming about legit sheep
Penis Drager said:
Assuming the "dream" function has a purpose designed by humans, I assume it would be something like defrag
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legit Doc that I worked with who was Bush Sr's dude on Air Force 2 in the VP days exactly compared to dreaming state to be defrag functions
 
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They've... seen things you people wouldn't believe...

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.

They watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears... in rain...
 
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What's the design purpose of being a dream walker then? Dream walker is someone who has lucid reams or can easily remember dreams.
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The brain's fucking weird and not everything it does has a "design purpose."
I mean, the canon explanation for deja vu is basically a cross-wiring between the short term and long term memory nexuses (nexes?) in your brain. Because your brain is stupid, that cross-wiring results in you not being able to differentiate between an event happening now and an event that happened in the past so you are sure the event you're experiencing happened before.

Don't assume everything a biological system does has a purpose.
 
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