"Precognitive Scientific Information in the Fiction of Philip K. Dick: Will the Real Ubik Please Stand Up?" is a presentation by William Sarill of the New Genesis Institute (Arlington, Massachusetts), delivered at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration on June 6, 2014.
The presentation examines instances in Dick's fiction where scientific concepts or discoveries appear to have been anticipated before they were formally recognized by the scientific community. The subtitle's reference to Ubik connects the paper to one of Dick's most celebrated novels, suggesting Sarill explores the prescient qualities of Dick's imaginative constructions. The Society for Scientific Exploration is an organization that investigates anomalous phenomena, and Sarill's paper situates Dick's fiction within the society's interest in precognition and unconventional modes of knowledge acquisition.
This presentation represents a distinctive strand of Dick scholarship that takes seriously the author's own claims about receiving information through non-ordinary channels, placing his literary work in dialogue with parapsychological research and frontier science.