The Basics of Perception
The Starting Point It occurred to me over this life that people have different viewpoints. In fact, I feel like life has beaten this into me over and over again. I have also taken note that a lot of people, not everyone, can sometimes get lost in their own perceptions and fail to see how limited it is. For example, if I was to ask you what the following was, I would assume most people would call it a triangle. Indeed, I would agree! Then, I could ask what the following was: If you are like me, you might call that a square. The Allegory of the Cave In high school I read a book called Sophie's World. It was what hooked me into learning about philosophy. It introduced various concepts, one of my favorites was the Allegory of the Cave. To copy and paste from the internet: Plato used the analogy of the cave to illustrate his idea of forms. The analogy goes like this: Imagine several prisoners who have been chained up in a cav...