The Allegory of the cave goes something like this imagine there are a group of prisoners that live in a cave, these Prisoners have never left this cave. The Prisoners are forced to see whats in front of them, they are forced to watch shadows this is this the only thing they have ever known. So they Believe that these shadows are real. Until one day a single prisoner is let go to see the out side world. He see the “Real world” and tells the cave people about the “real world”. The Cave People didn’t believe him and called him a heretic and that the world you saw is not real… Only the Shadows Knows the truth.
The parallel status of Prisoners and people in the cinema is that they both accept the truth that is shown to them. They are both shown things in front of them like the shadow puppets in cave is very close to how the movie projection on the big screen. But unlike the people in the cinema who have the ability to get up and leave the movie theater if the movie isn’t to their liking; the Prisoners only know what’s in front of them never being able to see what’s to their left, right or behind them. That is their one only truth the shadow is all they know, but at the cinema most people suspend their belief (they turn their brains of to enjoy the movie [most people]). They understand the truth outside of the cinema. But there are few cases of when people are unable to see the movie as fiction and sometimes causes harm to themselves or others.
There is a very real chance of this world we live in is a fake. A scarier possibility that we are in a fake world and unable to prove it due to the laws of this world saying that it’s impossible to prove that it is in fact a fake world, thus making the idea into a moot point. We are steadily increasing the processing power of computers (this is called Moors’ Law) that we could create simulations that seam more and more real as time goes on. What’s not to say that we are in one of those computers making our own simulations in a simulation in someone else’s simulation (this can get complicated real fast). Neil Degrasse Tyson (A astrophysicist/ one of the smartest men on the planet) has been on record saying that there is a very real possibility that we are in a simulation.
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