Philip K Dick speech (interpreter edited out) in Metz, France, 1977

Without the French interpreter so you can listen through the whole speech without interruption.

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This is Philip K Dick's famous Metz speech given in Metz, France in 1977. Philip gave the speech with a French interpreter beside him for the audience, but for English speakers it can be distracting. I took care of that for you in addition to very subtly improving the video quality and doing modest touch-ups to the audio, making it clearer and reducing the humming without too heavy a hand. In the speech he explores some of his ideas of parallel realities (lateral realities/lateral dimensions), his experience in 1974 (2-3-74), and how they both relate to his novels. A very exciting way to get introduced to the enigmatic, fascinating Philip K. Dick!

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[ScarlettFire]

"First we overlook evil, Then we permit evil. Then we legalize evil. Then we promote evil. Then we celebrate evil. Then we persecute those who still call it evil." Fr. Dwight Longenecker

[marcietownsend]

When you're one step ahead of the crowd, you're a visionary. When you're two steps ahead, you're considered insane. We've finally caught up to Phil and we thank him for his finger pointing to the future.

[RonaldRaygun]

Has anyone ever had a vivid dream, woke up from that dream, talked about the dream, and then years later that dream is playing out in reality?

[maxcalifornia]

I am sure back in ‘77 people thought this man was a goddamn lunatic but in fact he was actually awake, with his eyes wide open. His literature came into my life at a time when I was longing for change, longing for something different. I realized that what’s set in front of me is not legitimate. Thanks to this man, I am a better thinker and better observer.

[razerone]

Ty for editing out the translator. Someone had to take one for the team and you took the initiative. Cheers👍

[apowrs]

Over six years ago now I woke to see a brunette woman exiting my bedroom door, I got up feeling what I can only describe as the most amount of love I’ve ever felt for another. As I exited the room to join her for breakfast I slowly realised I was alone, I didn’t have a partner, that love I felt turned into a confused state of numbness. Almost immediately falling from a state of divine Grace into The World I actually lived in. When I hear PKD describe moments like this, I’m reminded of a love I no longer feel, and a woman I never even met.

[arzabael]

Can’t believe how laughable something can seem one decade and easily understandable it can be decades later. All of us are learning together.

[jellybag-jx]

Thank you for finding this extremely important lecture from Philip K Dick. We need to pay more attention to him and his works.

[rblvegan]

11:54 first time anyone in history called the physical world the “matrix world” and 1999 became prophecy fulfilled. RIP Phillip

[hhfp]

I've never read much science fiction, but in my research work for engineering in the 1980s I created a version of the Spice simulator for circuit emulation which reliably converged for networks with idealized components by adding an orthogonal time axis. It was more stable than a simulator without it. The goal was to avoid not smooth features on the potential energy surface so that Newton Raphson would converge.

The solution is close to what Philip K Dick describes there, through different in this respect, the end result was to create a better reality simulation rather than suggesting a different than perceived reality..

There is a paper with an expanded model that uses a Bayesian Network rather than Newton Raphson, also done in the 1980s. Initially it was to be a chess player, but it expands to suggest an explanation for our QM observations. This model supports a limited type of parallel reality, as does QM theory in general, but it wasn't intended to suggest the existence of a matrix. Rather it is a serious proposal for a physics model.

If this post makes sense, and you would like to see that paper I put it up on RG some years ago, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26428.49281.

[donniesmidway]

I just want to say I really appreciate the translator being edited out. Thank you very much

[Poor]

Can you imagine being the translator? Good god what a Monday at work that must have been.

[valentine]

The wolf is always at the door. Other divergences occurred in 2001 and again 2008 and 2020. The final move will look like total defeat until it is revealed to be absolute victory. Dick was so far ahead of his time or should I say, beside his time. Thanks for sharing this it is excellent!

[jocelynechklar]

Extraordinary. What a man! I read your books in my 20s and was moved by your intelligence and foresight. Many of your thoughts and writings became my understanding of way things could well come to pass. … and here we are, in 2023… thanks for your warnings and your insights in 😂your brilliant books, Philip. You will always live on. Love ❤❤😊

[cortex]

Iconic Samsung notification ringtone at 33:17 Pause & then a sound like a door You decide

[nigelcarter]

PK Dick and Hunter Thompson were my writing mentors. I loved how Dick invented worlds within our world and Thompson gave me the freedom to say whatever and however I liked. I'm 70 now and have read most of Dick's books. I particularly loved "A Scanner Darkly" and also enjoyed the animated film version. Valis also blew me away.

[markallinson]

I think the English poet and painter William Blake (1757 - 1827) would understand exactly what PKD is talking about, as Blake also described such parallel worlds. One such world is what Blake called "Beulah", and closely resembles what PKD describes as "the garden world": at the end of this video:

"In William Blake's mythology, Beulah, originally Hebrew בְּעוּלָה (bə‘ūlāh, traditionally transliterated Beulah /ˈbjuːlə/ BEW-lə and meaning "married" or "espoused"), is "the realm of the Subconscious, the source of poetic inspiration and of dreams." It is also, according to Blake scholar Alexander S. Gourlay, "a dreamy paradise where the sexes, though divided, blissfully converse in shameless selflessness. Beulah is available through dreams and visions to those in Ulro, the utterly fallen world." - from a Wiki.

[SolidFangJoker]

Ive been looking for a clean verison of this speech forever thank you

[bardoface]

In the moment he sounded crazy but he is a Giant genius who cracked a layer of the code.

[AlexaMorales]

This was stunning! I think I will have to listen again… and again!!