Showing posts with label Plato's Cave. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Plato's Cave. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 01, 2017

Plato at the Googleplex

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Rebecca Goldstein: "Plato at the Googleplex" | Talks at Google
Saturday, May 09, 2015

The Form of the Good

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SOCRATES:  Tell me then, by Zeus, what is that excellent [ págkalon , "all beautiful"] aim [ érgon , "work, deed"] t...
Monday, May 21, 2012

First Alcibiades

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Papyrus fragment of Alcibiades I , section 131.c-e. The First Alcibiades or Alcibiades I ( Ancient Greek : Ἀλκιβιάδης αʹ ) is a dia...
Thursday, May 03, 2012

The Ganzfeld effect

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The  Ganzfeld effect (from German for “complete field”) is a phenomenon of visual perception caused by staring at an undifferentiat...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Model Building in Life

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"...underwriting the form languages of ever more domains of mathematics is a set of deep patterns which not only offer access to a...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Plato's Cave(Animated Version)

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*** Hyperreality is used in semiotics and postmodern philosophy to describe a hypothetical inability of consciousness to distinguish real...
Monday, September 05, 2011

Know Thyself (γνώθι σεαυτόν )

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A stained glass window with the contracted version γνωθι σαυτόν. The saying " Know thyself " may refer by extension to the idea...

A Holograpical Universe

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Plato likened our view of the world to that of an ancient forebear watching shadows meander across a dimly lit cave wall. He imagined our ...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Plato's Problem

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Plato's problem is the term given by Noam Chomsky to the gap between knowledge and experience. It presents the question of...