It's me again. I wrote this thread: https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/40534629

I was just watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Le9_gRrow

And it occurred to me I could take the hemisphere translation of his and put it onto the lens model.

right hemisphere (left hand) = low (broad) focus
left hemisphere (right hand) = high (specific) focus

sensation -> low focus map -> high focus map -> image
physical sensation -> instinct -> logic -> virtual image
bodily sensation -> virtual image -> logic -> instinct

Do you see? There are two forms of sensation: from the inner world and from the outer world. Sensations from the inner world have a reverse sequence of operations using the same tools that we use to experience the outer world.

Ultimately, this means his cave metaphor can be viewed as the physical sensation cycle or the bodily sensation cycle. The former would say that leaving the cave is impossible, and the latter would say that you originate outside of the cave (because you originate inside of yourself, not because you come from a star or anything) and would thus be only "going back to it", which is precisely what Plato alluded to (correctly, I might add).