>[!abstract] >The Voight-Kampff test is a fictional empathy-assessment tool from Philip K. Dick’s *Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?* (1968) and its film adaptation *Blade Runner*. It measures involuntary physiological responses—such as eye movement, pupil dilation, and respiration—to emotionally charged questions designed to elicit empathy. The test distinguishes humans from replicants (bioengineered beings) by detecting the capacity for genuine emotional resonance, which in Dick’s universe defines true humanity. Symbolically, the Voight-Kampff test interrogates the boundaries between human and artificial consciousness, raising ethical and philosophical questions about emotion, identity, and what it means to be sentient. >[!related] >- **North** (upstream): [[Philosophy of mind]] >- **West** (similar): [[Turing test]] >- **East** (different): [[Empathy void]] >- **South** (downstream): —