/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.7395956]

What does sci think of Platos The Allegory of the Cave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTWwY8Ok5I0

[Anonymous No.7395962]

>>7395956
>What does sci think of Platos The Allegory of the Cave
It tells us a lot about Plato, but nearly nothing about the world itself

[Anonymous No.7396059]

>>7395956
Plato copied the matrix

But really, while we could all be living in an illusion

A)pointing that out doesn't fix it
B)an illusion can still be studied

[Anonymous No.7396063]

>>7395956
Only people who are obsessed with conspiracies and retarded what ifs find this interesting.

[Anonymous No.7396281]

There's some evidence that our reality is a computer simulation. But if you think about it a computer simulation doesn't need to be simulated by a computer. It could be created by a meat computer or living being. It's much more likely we're literally living in someone else's cosmic dream.

If Platos Cave theory proves correct then we'll it shouldn't be possible for us to contemplate life outside the dream, much like it's impossible for the brain to visualize 4 dimensions of space. However we're able to create a computer that can compute 4D space so that sorta disproves Platos Cave theory.

That's enough out of me. I wonder tho, do people in our dreams have dreams of their own?

[Anonymous No.7396285]

>>7396281
What the fuck are you on about?

[Anonymous No.7396287]

>>7396281

[Anonymous No.7396288]

>>7396287

[Anonymous No.7396309]

>>7396281
>There's some evidence that our reality is a computer simulation.

No there isn't. If you assume that we're in a simulation then you can find some justification for thinking it, like the universe being quantised. But without presupposing that we are in a simulation there's no reason to assume that quantisation implies a simulation. Or in other words "we live in a simulated universe" is the presuppositional apologetics of physics.

[Anonymous No.7396317]

>>7396285
You're living in Platos Cave. Wake up John.

[Anonymous No.7396325]

plato's cave has nothing to do with computer simulations

[Anonymous No.7396869]

>>7396281
>If Platos Cave theory proves correct then we'll it shouldn't be possible for us to contemplate life outside the dream
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave#Departure_from_the_Cave

[Anonymous No.7397259]

>>7396281
>we're literally living
Allegory of the Cave is allegorical, not to be taken liturgically.

[Anonymous No.7397283]

Society is the cave, 4chan is the light outside

[Anonymous No.7397366]

>>7397283

By that analogy what is /d/ then? :)