Parallel Universes

The Unlimited Possibilities of Parallel Lives Have you heard of Plato’s Cave? I mean the famous Allegory of the Cave written by the Greek philosopher in the 4th century BC. Plato retells a dialogue he had with Socrates who describes a group of people who... More

The Unlimited Possibilities of Parallel Lives Have you heard of Plato’s Cave? I mean the famous Allegory of the Cave written by the Greek philosopher in the 4th century BC. Plato retells a dialogue he had with Socrates who describes a group of people who have lead all their lives locked up to the wall of a cave, facing a blank wall. The people are able to see only the shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them. Lacking a better view of reality, they start ascribing forms to the shadows. Socrates explains that philosophers, in their attempts to understand the metaphysical, can be compared to these prisoners set free – looking at the true forms of the world and realizing that the forms on the wall were only shadows of reality. This allegory was the basis of Plato’s theory of forms which states that forms and ideas, and not the material world that we perceive through our senses, construct the sublime and most fundamental reality. Reading Plato’s C Less