Plato's cave
An allegory by Plato illustrating the perception of reality, which Gnostics use as a parallel for escaping the material world; Hermeticism, however, emphasizes embodying the good within the world.
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Hermeticism: The Ancient Wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus
Eternalised
An allegory by Plato illustrating the perception of reality, which Gnostics use as a parallel for escaping the material world; Hermeticism, however, emphasizes embodying the good within the world.
Repairing our Country: A Conversation with Jonah Goldberg (Episode #296)
Sam Harris
Used as a metaphor to describe the potential for social media to distort reality and lead one to take the shadows on the wall too seriously.
Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science | Lex Fridman Podcast #77
Lex Fridman
A thought experiment referenced by Alex Garland in relation to 'Ex Machina' and ideas about sentience and consciousness.
Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #117
Lex Fridman
Plato's allegory of the cave, used to illustrate how people resist being divested of comfortable illusions.
Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church | Lex Fridman Podcast #304
Lex Fridman
An allegory used to explain how scientific knowledge, though valuable, remains within a limited empirical realm, and that stepping outside requires engaging with mathematics and metaphysics to understand deeper realities.