The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that reality is fundamentally about information rather than physical dimensions.
Philip K. Dick's quote implies that our understanding of the universe transcends traditional notions of space and time. Instead of perceiving ourselves as existing in a three-dimensional world governed by time, he challenges us to view existence as a network of information, emphasizing the profound nature of consciousness and reality. It invites readers to reconsider the essence of their existence and the structure of the universe itself.
In practice
In a lecture about the nature of reality and perception, this quote could serve to provoke deep thought among students.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.
Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.
With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.
There's nothing harder than defining oneself.
It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.
Total peace after death, becoming someone else, is the best hope I've got.
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