yeah I mean I could see not knowing platos cave but boltzman brains are mentioned pretty often in various media including sprinkled regularly in youtube videos. Im surprised someone could avoid it.
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foggy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you’re unfamiliar with Plato’s Allegory Of The Cave, you should familiarize yourself.
This shower thought is older than showers!
HubertManne@kbin.social 10 months ago
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why? It is just superstitious nonsense from 2500 years ago.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Plato’s allegory of the cave is not about what this shower thought it about.
foggy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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Yes it absolutely is.
I am sorry you are failing to connect these painfully adjacent dots.
MadBob@feddit.nl 10 months ago
The allegory of the cave is about people who are under an illusion and reject evidence to the contrary. Hence why it has “allegory” in the name, you know. I can’t really do anything about being told my brain gets no light and no one’s proposing we kill the person who said it, and the point isn’t that we shouldn’t kill them, so it’s not really anywhere near the same.
foggy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, while focused on the rejection of evidence and moral implications, also deeply explores perception and our understanding based on sensory experiences. This theme resonates with the shower thought about the brain being in a dark chamber, reliant on sensory “wires” for information. The allegory illustrates how our perception of reality, like the prisoners viewing shadows in the cave, is limited and shaped by our sensory experiences.
The shower thought and Plato’s allegory both suggest that our understanding of the external world is constrained by these sensory inputs. Just as the prisoners in the cave perceive shadows as their entire reality, our brain, encased in the skull, constructs its version of reality based on what our senses convey. This comparison highlights how our perception might be just a fraction of the true nature of the external world.
In linking the shower thought to the allegory, the aim was not to draw a literal comparison but to underscore the shared theme of perceptual limitation and reality versus illusion. This metaphor serves to reflect on how our subjective experiences shape our understanding of the world, akin to how the brain, in its ‘sealed chamber,’ interprets the information it receives.
Again, sorry you failed to connect the dots. Figured it was obvious enough to not have to write an essay to explain it.
Cheers.
Strobelt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Will the person you’re answering to understand? Or will they fall into their own allegory of the cave on the allegory of the cave? 🤔