... to this knowledge, just as we don't know how there came to be a first freed prisoner in Plato's cave analogy, but Neo would not have known the differences between the two worlds were it not for Morpheus and his crew teaching him. Though knowing the difference between the two worlds requires a teacher, Neo, Trinity, and others were open to such teaching because they had paid ... . That cord doesn't so much nourish, as program; and not just program some general framework in terms of which the world will be approached, but the world itself. The Platonic allusion is unmistakable; we cannot b...

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