How does this ancient parable help us to see reality now? Plato's allegory of the cave is almost 2500 years old, it was probably created around 408 BC. The text can be found at the beginning of the book Politeia, more precisely Politeia 514a-515b. In short, Plato claims that we are sitting in a cave. All we see are shadows on the wall. If Plato had lived today he would have said the cave is a digital bunker. And the shadows - these are the patterns and images and icons and writing on the glassy, smooth user interfaces that we swipe to get to the reality behind or to recognize it.
Plato lived roughly between 428 and 348 BC. He was a student of Socrates and was particularly interested in what we can actually know and how well. Other of his central themes: the good, justice and what we now call theory. Plato was the inventor of the theory of ideas and founded an academy. If you had to paraphrase Plato's intention with a buzzword today, you could say that Plato is about you going through a real transformational experience. Plato wants us all to achieve a better, different, today we would say sustainably transformed way of life through the light. What does Plato's ancient parable have to do with the Matrix trilogy, Descartes and the theme of enlightenment? That's what the video is about.
Are we living in reality? Plato's allegory of the cave
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