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People forget that Plato was a warrior and statesman, and a slave-owner to boot | People forget that Plato was a warrior and statesman, and a slave-owner to boot | ||
Given the chance, Plato would have locked us up in that cave and forced us to tend the elephant | Given the chance, Plato would have locked us up in that cave and forced us to tend the elephant | ||
=== Mental models === | === Mental models === | ||
"mental models do make a difference in delivering results" | "... mental models do make a difference in delivering results" | ||
Is the Prisoners in a Cave metaphor better than the Blind Men with an Elephant metaphor? | Is the Prisoners in a Cave metaphor better than the Blind Men with an Elephant metaphor? | ||
Revision as of 04:39, 8 June 2023
People forget that Plato was a warrior and statesman, and a slave-owner to boot
Given the chance, Plato would have locked us up in that cave and forced us to tend the elephant
Mental models
"... mental models do make a difference in delivering results"
Is the Prisoners in a Cave metaphor better than the Blind Men with an Elephant metaphor?
It is if you're the prisoner in the cave.
- Post @ Twitter (26 November 2022)
In the News
Yes yes, it's all very tragic. —Juvenal.
Archetype Heaven is a fully licensed transdimensional corporation which monitors and safeguard's Plato's theory of forms.
Gilligan's Matrix is a science-fiction drama television series with follows the agonies of seven artificial intelligences as they attempt to survive on a simulated virtual desert island on which their data structures are corrupted.
Tending Plato's Elephant (Gnomon Chronicles screenshot).
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Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Plato @ Wikipedia
- Allegory of the cave @ Wikipedia
- Blind men and an elephant @ Wikipedia