lana_del_rio@sh.itjust.works to Videos@lemmy.world · 7 months agoNovelist Philip K. Dick talking about "The Simulation Theory" way back in 1977 (before The Matrix, before very powerful computers, before Nick Bostrum's theory)www.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up171arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up166arrow-down1external-linkNovelist Philip K. Dick talking about "The Simulation Theory" way back in 1977 (before The Matrix, before very powerful computers, before Nick Bostrum's theory)www.youtube.comlana_del_rio@sh.itjust.works to Videos@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square4fedilinkfile-text
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-up32·7 months agoI mean if we go wide enough, Descartes was talking about it in 1641
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up30·7 months agoThere’s also Plato’s Cave. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 months 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-down6·7 months 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.