I&#x27;ve read this article twice now, and both times the same thought struck me. How much, really, are his &quot;insights&quot; much different from Plato&#x27;s Allegory of Cave philosophy?<p><i>Plato has Socrates describe a gathering of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from things passing in front of a fire behind them, and they begin to give names to these shadows</i>[1]<p>Yes of course the details differ and the physics have drastically changed (invoking QM&#x27;s probability wave functions as the the basis of the &quot;shadows on the cave wall.&quot;), but the idea that all we observe isn&#x27;t a true representation of reality is one of the oldest ideas in all of western philosophy.<p>It reminds of that old quote from Alfred North Whitehead, a preeminent 20th century figure...&quot;All philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato&quot;<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Allegory_of_the_Cave" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Allegory_of_the_Cave</a>