The universe as a hologram v. Plato's Cave (theory)

[RisingSun361]

I just finished reading Plato's Allegory of the Cave in Book VII of his Republic, (written about 2,400 years ago); and I can't stop thinking how eerily similar it is to the idea that the universe is a hologram. But how can this be? I can grasp and touch the objects around me. How can they be mere representations of information?

[RisingSun361]

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[Dirt Grinder]

Don't define reality through what you read, define it through what you experience.

[Harry Diogenes]

Originally Posted by RisingSun361

I just finished reading Plato's Allegory of the Cave in Book VII of his Republic, (written about 2,400 years ago); and I can't stop thinking how eerily similar it is to the idea that the universe is a hologram. But how can this be? I can grasp and touch the objects around me. How can they be mere representations of information?

Because your brain is building a model of our reality and testing this model against reality. This is why you learn as a baby, because you have no understanding about our reality. It is also why you experience the color red, even though it does not appear to exist outside of our minds. It is how we understand energy of certain wavelengths, and why color blind people experience something else.

As to the simulation theory and it's problems - https://backreaction.blogspot.com/20...thesis-is.html

[rjshae]

The interaction you experience is entirely through forces, which are just packets of information exchanged between particles. The negative charges in your body repel the negative charges in a surface, and you experience that as solid touch. But how do those forces travel between the particles? It could be via some holographic mechanism.