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"For the sciences, the way to change science's perception of things is to wait until all the old farts have died off."
- Larry Niven
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| Voight-Kampff Test | ||
| A test intended to distinguish human beings from replicants. |
In the film, replicants (android copies of human beings) are given the Voight-Kampff empathy test; this distinguishes them from human beings.
| Tyrell: "Is this to be an empathy test? Capillary dilation, the so-called blush response? Fluctuation of the pupil... involuntary dilation of the iris?
Deckard: "We call it Voight-Kampff for short."
(From Harrison Ford Gives The Test)
 (Voight-Kampff control panel from Blade Runner)
 (Voight-Kampff eye response)
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| Technovelgy from Blade Runner,
by Ridley Scott. Published by Blade Runner Partnership in 1982 Additional resources -
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Read more information about the test at the entry for Voight-Kampff Empathy Test from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the 1968 Philip K. Dick novel upon which the film is based.
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