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[[|thumb|Earliest known poster for Tending Plato's Elephant.]] 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 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.

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.
The unexfoliated skin is not worth shaving.
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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 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato] @ Wikipedia
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave Allegory of the cave] @ Wikipedia
+* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxoSZfBFrwE How did Plato and Aristotle justify slavery?] @ YouTube
+* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eodvY4fxjDs The Life of Plato] @ YouTube
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant Blind men and an elephant] @ Wikipedia
+* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn9BUfUCL4I The Blind Men and the Elephant] @ YouTube
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