... 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 ... unmistakable; we cannot but think of the famous simile of the cave, described in the Republic, Book VII. According to it, we are all like prisoners in an underground cave, placed in chains at birth, and unable to...

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