It’s also floating in liquid.
Yea, I was gonna say, it’s really wet in there too. But at least it’s got a snug blankie membrane of sorts that does all its local feeling for it, since it couldn’t actually detect any of these things for itself with no nerve endings of its own.
For a second there I thought you meant feeling as in emotional and was really confused haha
I just imaged the membrane hugging my brain like “don’t worry, I got you, focus on keeping this idiot alive”
If you’re unfamiliar with Plato’s Allegory Of The Cave, you should familiarize yourself.
This shower thought is older than showers!
Plato’s allegory of the cave is not about what this shower thought it about.
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Yes it absolutely is.
I am sorry you are failing to connect these painfully adjacent dots.
The allegory of the cave is about people who are under an illusion and reject evidence to the contrary. Hence why it has “allegory” in the name, you know. I can’t really do anything about being told my brain gets no light and no one’s proposing we kill the person who said it, and the point isn’t that we shouldn’t kill them, so it’s not really anywhere near the same.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
It actually is not pitch black. And I recall some part of the brain (some gland) needs this light to set our daily cycle.
Your eyes are a part of your brain.
Doesn’t seem to match with my understanding. Got any references for that?
And tubes. One of the tubes delivers glucose and caffeine.
