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Skip to 3:40 for short version Full 40 minute speech Did Philip K. Dick discover the real-life Matrix in 1977?
minus-squarepalebluethought@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·1 year agoI mean if we go wide enough, Descartes was talking about it in 1641
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up33·1 year agoThere’s also Plato’s Cave. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoMaybe, but I also think Dick was very well-read and probably was familiar with Plato’s analogy of the cave if not Descartes as well.
minus-squareWamGams@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down6·1 year agoI don’t think we can blame Dick’s schizophrenia on having read The Cave. I think you would have been closer to the truth if you had blamed it on the guilt he carried from having murdered his twin sister in utero.
I mean if we go wide enough, Descartes was talking about it in 1641
There’s also Plato’s Cave.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave
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Maybe, but I also think Dick was very well-read and probably was familiar with Plato’s analogy of the cave if not Descartes as well.
I don’t think we can blame Dick’s schizophrenia on having read The Cave.
I think you would have been closer to the truth if you had blamed it on the guilt he carried from having murdered his twin sister in utero.