Comment on the significance of the title Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep? is a novel byand the basis for the popular film
Bladerunner. The primary question in the novel is one of the existential
significance of consciousness. Is it inherent to humanity? If one cannot tell the difference
between a human and an android, which was originally the case when administering the empathy
test to Rachael, is there really a tangible difference? These are questions that are represented
in the title of the work.

As a bounty hunter operating in a world where
real animals are a fashionable commodity, Rick Deckard dreams of owning a real sheep to replace
the electric one that he...