This is Philip K Dick speaking at Metz Science Fiction Convention, 1977: He makes about as much sense as he usually does.

• Pluriform realities…??? Recovered memory…??? Plasmic energy…??? What size tinfoil hat does this writer require? Is his fictional world true? Did he think it was?
• 'I claim to remember a very different present life.' Claiming in 1977 that we are living in a 'computer-generated reality' is remarkable, to say the least.

Philip K Dick certainly marched to the beat of a different drummer. His novels, such as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, The Penultimate Truth, The Maze of Death, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and many others, not to mention his rich output of short stories, attest to a vision of remarkable scope and intensity. You can't read him without being led to think – seriously, deeply – about the nature of reality and man's place in it. Dick himself often insisted that he was inspired, not only by the chemical experimentation he indulged in, but by a synchronicity of contacts from other people he ran across – such as the young lady from the pharmacy who happened to be wearing an 'ichthys' necklace, which sent Dick into a strange episode of alleged anamnesis, in which he 'remembered' being a first-century Gnostic. . .

Of course, most of the people Dick met lived in California. That might explain a few things.

PK Dick was certainly inspirational. Here's a short animated film based on 'The Electric Ant'.

Another Dick-inspired vision is the short film Radio Free Albemuth. As it says in the description, 'The video is inspired by Dick's interest in the household appliance as a roadmap for a spiritual journey. . . '

We can learn a lot from Philip K Dick. The management recommends that we try to do this while sober, and leave the funny stuff alone.