One mothst handy philosophical metaphor

[altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

but I'm not sure to what exactly.

[adambomb@lemmy.sdf.org]

What’s going on in the top picture? Prisoners being entertained with a shadow play?

[titters2@lemmynsfw.com]

Allegory of the cave. Plato talks about people chained up in a cave their whole lives and forced to look straight ahead so they think the shadows are reality.

[lefrog@discuss.tchncs.de]

Plato's Cave

[altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Check another person missclicked to the top level or the link other user dropped.

Basically, a surface level of knowledge is just shadows on the cave's wall that could be projected by someone interested in fooling you. Unless you question the nature of things, you'd not leave a cave, and won't probably even question your perception. Just like Morpheus, his pills and references to going down the rabbit hole like Alice did.

[adambomb@lemmy.sdf.org]

Thank you