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.
People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale.
The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.
Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.
Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.
Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.
News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.
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