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-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.
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.