I like this song a lot, but I mostly like the beginning of it. I've always associated the part with "when reality�is just light interpreted by your brain/ and if mine and your perceptions ain't one and the same/ which one of us is normal, which one is insane" with Plato's "Allegory of the cave".
He imagines a group of people who have always lived chained in a cave, facing a blank wall and with their back to the exit. These people used to watch shadows being projected on the wall by things passing in front of the cave (and behind them) - and they start to learn and define those objects. Anyway, the chains represent our senses, and the shadows on the wall are far from what reality really is, they are simply
According to Plato, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to seeing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are not constitutive of reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.
I like this song a lot, but I mostly like the beginning of it. I've always associated the part with "when reality�is just light interpreted by your brain/ and if mine and your perceptions ain't one and the same/ which one of us is normal, which one is insane" with Plato's "Allegory of the cave". He imagines a group of people who have always lived chained in a cave, facing a blank wall and with their back to the exit. These people used to watch shadows being projected on the wall by things passing in front of the cave (and behind them) - and they start to learn and define those objects. Anyway, the chains represent our senses, and the shadows on the wall are far from what reality really is, they are simply
According to Plato, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to seeing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are not constitutive of reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.