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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-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.
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.