So he truly believes that we perceive 0% of reality and that whatever is outside of Plato's cave or outside of the simulation is the true reality.
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So I was thinking about a couple of different things having to do with Plato.
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Um, and like Plato is right downstream of this lineage because he's also said to be a Pythagorean initiate as well.
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And you know, they were almost, they're like these Plato, Pythagoras, like sage guys.
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And this, um, one of the most famous places this stems from is a story at the end of Plato's Republic called the myth of Ur. Ur is this warrior who is about to be burned on the funeral pyre because he just appears to be a dead body.
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this and they all held it in the highest possible regard, whether it's like Plato or Herodotus or,
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How did Plato come up with his theories? Was he an experiencer?
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scale within Plato's Republic. So the whole book, like the whole hundred thousand plus word book is
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divided line, which for, for people that aren't familiar with this, it's, it's alongside Plato's cave.
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So he gives the Plato's cave story, you know, there's people, they're trapped in the cave,
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