form. Then these contradictions will lead to a development into a higher-level and more complex form of that same idea. These ideas of Hegel’s may have remained a mystery to me if I had not by chance been reading the works of Philip K. Dick and Daniel F. Galouye at the same time. After reading Philip K. Dick’s The Electric Ant Hegel began to fall into place for me and make some sense. In this story an android discovers that he is not a real boy and tries to move beyond his programming. Consulting the