In the Matrix movie, Neo’s eyes initially hurt after taking the red pill. Some have suggested this is analogous to Plato’s allegory of the cave where the prisoners’ eyes hurt from the sun’s intensity after being released from the cave. All they’ve ever experienced from birth is darkness, a false reality, so as they ascend from darkness into the light, t…
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