The prisoner is chained to a cave with his back turn away. He constantly sees shadows. He is free one day and notices that the shadows are real. He returns to tell his fellow prisoners and they did believe him. Like the matrix.
When I think of the Allegory of the Cave. I think of the Matrix, when the character Neo escapes the first "computer world", but realizes he is in another computer world simulation.
If someone were to have taken you at birth, locked you in a basement and never let you out you would be their prisoner even if you had been there since birth and did not know you were a prisoner. That was Plato's point. The prisoners had no idea that they were prisoners and were happy to stay right there because it was all they had ever
When I think of the Allegory of the Cave. I think of the Matrix, when the character Neo escapes the first "computer world", but realizes he is in another computer world simulation.
If someone were to have taken you at birth, locked you in a basement and never let you out you would be their prisoner even if you had been there since birth and did not know you were a prisoner. That was Plato's point. The prisoners had no idea that they were prisoners and were happy to stay right there because it was all they had ever