Exegesis or "He is in the midst of us"
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2007.34.3446Keywords:
Matrix, information theory, religionAbstract
Despite its somewhat disregarded (literary and cinematographic) status, science fiction - particularly in more recent years as seen from Neuromancer's journey to the film trilogy The Matrix - has served as a mediator between the seemingly irreconcilable fields of technoscience and religion, constituting itself as a fundamental component of cyberculture. It should however be ascertained how much these links fall back to a much earlier period. This is the purpose of this article; Although restricting his analysis to only one author, Philip K. Dick, its relevance stems from the double fact of being an inescapable name of the genre and of serving - particularly in his later works - of notions close to information theory.
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